In order to get access to the terminal server term.imp.fu-berlin.de you need to drop us an email at zedv@physik.fu-berlin.de stating your ZEDAT account that should be enabled. Any member of the physics department will be given access and there are no costs to it.

An important feature of the terminal server is that you can disconnect from your session and pick it up at a later time. E.g. you could start your work at home, disconnect the session and reconnect back once you reach the office. All programs will stay open. In order to not have disconnected session flood the server (since people tend to forget about them) we will automatically terminate disconnected sessions after 7 days. If you don't need to reconnect to your session, please make sure you log out from it using the normal log out button from within windows. If you just close your remote desktop client, the session will stay open!

Since the terminal server is a shared server where lots of people might be working at the same time you are not allowed to start long running and cpu/memory intensive calculations there. The main purpose of the system is to give everyone access to typical Windows software like Office and Adobe Acrobat. If you need to run calculations please let us know at hpc@physik.fu-berlin.de and we'll find some resources that are better suited for that purpose.

In order to update software or fix problems the terminal servers might have to be rebooted every once in a while. If this becomes necessary we will terminate user sessions that have no active programs aka empty desktops. These sessions are in almost all cases just open by accident and the corresponding users might even have forgotten about them. In any case terminating these sessions doesn't do any damage since not programs are running.