(temporary posting) The User Paths for Autodesk 3DS Max on hamish were renamed so that drives will be writable. The changes are as follows:
Original file locations
New Paths
Animations
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\animations
D:\3dsMax8\animations
Archives
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\archives
D:\3dsMax8\archives
AutoBackup
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\autoback
D:\3dsMax8\autoback
Export
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\meshes
D:\3dsMax8\meshes
Expressions
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\express
D:\3dsMax8\express
Images
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\images
D:\3dsMax8\images
Import
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\meshes
D:\3dsMax8\meshes
Materials
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\matlibs
D:\3dsMax8\matlibs
MaxStart
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\scenes
D:\3dsMax8\scenes
Photometric
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\photometric
D:\3dsMax8\photometric
Previews
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\previews
D:\3dsMax8\previews
RenderAssets
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\renderassets
D:\3dsMax8\renderassets
RenderOutput
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\renderoutput
D:\3dsMax8\renderoutput
RenderPresets
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\renderpresets
D:\3dsMax8\renderpresets
Scenes
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\Scenes
D:\3dsMax8\scenes-1
Sounds
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\sounds
D:\3dsMax8\sounds
UserScripts
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\userscripts
D:\3dsMax8\userscripts
VideoPost
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3dsMax8\vpost
D:\3dsMax8\vpost
Sun Grid Engine
modified: 28 Feb 2008
The Sun Grid Engine is scheduling software used to run jobs on 3 clusters of machines. The 3 clusters are beta, icics, and arrow; the icics cluster is available to the dept. The documentation appears on the BETA wiki page under the link "SunGridEngine". To access the SGE users can either ssh into a beta machine or submit jobs through departmental servers okanagan or begbie.