PECF

Cornell University
Physics Educational Computing Facility (PECF)

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Welcome to the PECF web page! Informative essentials are below. For other information, try the tabs above. Any questions? Email the system administrator at help@physics.cornell.edu.

Terminal SSH

To connect with SSH, use
ssh username@secure.physics.cornell.edu
or
ssh username@nws##.physics.cornell.edu
(where ## is a number from 01 to 22).

Web Webpages

Store your web page files in
home/public_html
then you can access it from
http://pages.physics.cornell.edu/~username/

Mail Email

Log into email through webmail or configure your email client with

Mail server:mail.physics.cornell.edu
Server type:IMAP
Use SSL/TLS?:yes
Username and password:use yours

Who is eligible?

All Physics grads get an account automatically from the PECF system administrator.

All Physics faculty can request an account from the PECF system administrator.

Physics undergrads can get an account; talk to your SPS officers.

Any current students in a Physics course that uses the computer lab can get an account from your instructor.

Notices

2011-12-06: We added an online password change form.

2011-10-26: We have a new website!

2011-09-24: The file server no longer is awful!

Last winter: Fancy new computers!