Introduction, Orientation and Disclaimers

1. Welcome to Daylight Summer School 1999 (2nd annual)!

2. About Daylight.

3. Why a summer school?

4. What this course IS:
   • Introductory
   • A survey of topics
   • A beginning
   • Hands-on, how-to
   • Student-centered
   • Compromise among end-user/administrator/programmer needs.

5. What this course is NOT:
   • Expert certifying
   • Comprehensive

6. Computer facilities:
   • Two lab partners per workstation (Sun-Ultra10 or SGI-O2).
   • Please stay on the same workstation all week.
   • Logins: mug/coffee, thor/st.johns, root/(ask).
   • Server (file-, Daylight-, and web-) "origin", a.k.a., "daylight".
   • Domain known as "daylight.com" but we're not on Internet.
   • DY_ROOT=/daylight/day462/v462
     

   • % pwd
     /export/home/mug
     % ls
     .cshrc           .daylight        .login 
     README           data/            nsmail/          utils/
     admin/           dy_profile.opt   test/
     cgi/             extras/          toolkit/

   • Files for labs at:
     1. mug's home directory
     2. thor's home directory
     3. URL: www.daylight.com/meetings/summerschool99/course/files/
     4. /net/origin/nalgas/summerschool99/
7. Fun stuff:
   • Seminar at Santa Fe Institute, Tuesday@12:15, "Emerging Trends in High Performance Scientific Visualization"
   • Banquet Wednesday night at 6PM, leaving SJC at 5:30PM.
   • Golf Friday morning, 7:00AM.
   • Hike Santa Fe Baldy Sunday 6/20.