PWF Information Pages
The Public Workstation Facility (PWF) is for the use of all staff and
students of Cambridge University, and provides networked PCs (Windows/Linux)
and Apple
Macintosh computers running a wide range of software, together with printers
and scanners and a central filestore. The filestore and printers can be
accessed remotely (e.g. from student rooms) as well as directly
from PWF machines, and there is a remote login service to Linux.
Access to the PWF is from a number of public rooms and also from many Colleges and some Departments (the Managed Cluster Service). The PWF runs 24 hours a day, seven days a week, subject to occasional downtime for scheduled work. Some of the public rooms are Teaching Rooms and reserved for courses at certain times.
All students and many members of staff are given PWF accounts automatically when they join the University and can collect their login name and initial password by following the link from the Computing Service home page. Any other member of the University may apply for a PWF account.
Student accounts are normally cancelled at the end of the student's course. More details of the cancellation schedule are here.
The title of this document is:
Computing Service PWF Information Pages
URL:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/pwf/
Last updated: 4 February 2009