As many of you are aware, the standard versions of various developer tools provided in Scientific Linux 6 (e.g. gcc) have now become quite old. To gain access to newer versions you can now have various software collections added to your system. These are extra packages provided by Redhat, details are available on the computing […]

We have now resolved the hardware problems with the new hardware for the staff NX server so we can reschedule the planned upgrade. On Tuesday 6th January we plan to replace the staff NX server named central which hosts staff.nx.inf.ed.ac.uk with a machine named northern. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on […]

We have recently discovered a problem with the cron daemon (cronie) which is supplied with SL6 and SL7 which means that users with home directories stored in AFS have been prevented from using the service on DICE machines. We have now patched the code and are satisfied that normal service has now been resumed. This […]

On Tuesday 4th November we plan to replace the staff NX server named central which hosts staff.nx.inf.ed.ac.uk with a machine named northern. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on Tuesday we will change the DNS aliases to point to the new machine. This change can take some time to propagate so we […]

On Tuesday 28th October we plan to replace the NX server named bakerloo which hosts nx.inf.ed.ac.uk with a machine named piccadilly. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on Tuesday we will change the DNS alias to point to the new machine. This change can take some time to propagate so we will […]

The 5th minor update to ScientificLinux 6 (which is based on RHEL6) is now ready for deployment to the Informatics SL6 DICE office and student lab machines. A minor update like this provides us with the opportunity to update important software and fix any bugs which are not security issues (we apply security updates as […]

On Tuesday 26th August we plan to replace the SSH server named hogwood which hosts staff.ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk with a machine named brendel. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on Tuesday we will change the DNS aliases to point to the new machine. This change can take some time to propagate so we will […]

If you are a new member of Informatics and use AFS (e.g. for access to your home directory or group file space) or would just like a refresher then we would like to invite you to attend our annual Introduction to AFS tutorial. The session will be held on Monday 14th October starting at 10:30am […]

The Computing Team are pleased to announce the launch of a new graphical remote login service. This service provides access to your normal DICE desktop environment from any Linux, MacOSX or Windows based client. This service uses the NX technology to handle remote X Windows connections, consequently you will need to download the appropriate client […]

We have recently updated a number of Python modules on DICE which are useful for scientific data analysis. Here are the versions and links to the relevant documentation: numpy – 1.7.1 – docs scipy – 0.12.0 – docs pandas – 0.12.0 – docs matplotlib – 1.3.0 – docs We have also been looking at upgrading […]