The way in which SSH login services are provided for the School of Informatics will soon be changing.

The 2021-22 version of Virtual DICE is now available. Virtual DICE is like the School of Informatics’ DICE Linux environment, except that you can run it on your own computer in a virtual machine. If your computer can run VirtualBox, and has an Intel architecture, then Virtual DICE should run on it. We’ve just released […]

Are you having problems logging in? Use your username When you login to a DICE Linux computer, use your DICE username. That username is the same as your University Username (“UUN” for short). For students it’s the letter “s” followed by your matriculation number. For example, if your username is s2345678 then you type this […]

We’ve had IPv6 enabled on the “self-managed server” subnets (164 and 197) for quite a while now, and mostly it has been trouble-free.  Recently, however, we’ve had reports of login slowness to some self-managed servers following a system upgrade. What we expect to happen is that your machine will automatically set its IPv6 address based […]

Updated (26/08/21): this work is complete. This is about downtime for the remote desktop service, and how you can carry on using the service while your usual server is not available. What’s remote.inf.ed.ac.uk? The remote desktop service gives you a remote DICE graphical session when you connect to username.remote.inf.ed.ac.uk, where username stands for your own […]

The University runs a Research Data Management Service which encompasses all aspects of Research Data Management including recording Data Management Plans, storing active data, sharing data, archiving data and providing forums and training facilities. The main features are: DMPonline Free and open web-based tool to help researchers write data plans DataStore To store data in […]

For many years we have used the OSPF routing protocol to exchange IPv4 and IPv6 routes with the rest of EdLAN as well as internally within Informatics.  As a result of the University’s network replacement project, however, that’s going to have to change as EdLAN adopts a more layered structure.  We’ll continue to use OSPF […]

To use our remote desktop service, or any RDP connection to a computer at Edinburgh University, you must now (edit: from 07:00 on Wednesday 28 April) use a University VPN. If you don’t, you won’t get a connection. If you already use the University VPN or the Informatics OpenVPN, carry on – RDP should work […]

On Monday 1st March we will replace the SSH server named “bruegel” which hosts ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk and student.ssh.inf.ed.ac.uk with a new machine named “auriga“. All that will happen is that at about 09:00 on Monday we will change the DNS alias to point to the new machine. This change can take some time to propagate so […]

We are currently experiencing significant issues with the School’s OpenAFS file system. This contains our user’s DICE home directories along with the majority of the School’s group and research data. The majority of our administrative data is now held on the University’s DataStore service and so is unaffected. This issue is not restricted to Informatics […]