Course web site: http://linuxcourse.rutgers.edu
Instructor: Alexei Kotelnikov
TA: Alexander Hill

Foundations of the course

• Proposed by Professor D. Knight, MAE department, in Fall 2001
• Sponsored by MAE department and Unisys corporation
• First taught in Spring 2002
• Pionered by Alexei Kotelnikov, JB Kim and Amit Freeman

• Learn how to use Linux efficiently for Engineering user applications;
• Linux Servers configuration and administration;
• Configuration of Linux clusters for high performance computing.

• Each student is assigned a desktop (HP) computer on his desk for the whole semester.
• The desktop is the primary computer for following the lectures:

  xtightvncviewer desktop16:1

  and completing the exercises.