Definitions

CSC

• The University of Waterloo Computer Science Club whose office is located in room 3036/3037 of Mathematics and Computer Building (UW campus), telephone number (519) 888-4657 x3870.

CSC Network

• The network of computer hardware and peripherals owned by, rented to, on loan to, or otherwise under the control of the CSC, including everything under the csclub.uwaterloo.ca DNS zone.

CSCF

• The Computer Science Computing Facility at the University of Waterloo.

Machine

• Computer, terminal or other piece of hardware.
• Non-CSC machines include CSCF's xterms and printers.

Systems Committee

• An appointed body responsible for the operation of the CSC network and the software that runs on it. A complete description is available in the CSC Constitution.

Network Bandwidth

• The percentage of bytes per unit of time that can be handled by the network(s) in question. These networks include the University of Waterloo on-campus network and the Internet.

Computing Resources

• Resources the CSC considers limited include
  • Public temporary disk space
  • Swap space
  • Other commonly held disk space (which may include the home file system)
  • inodes
  • Memory
  • CPU time
  • Processes
  • TTYs and pseudo-TTYs
  • Network bandwidth
  • Ports
  • CSC Cloud Services