We’ve turned off some of the machines which normally form part of the DICE Beowulf and Hadoop clusters. At the moment the Forum’s server room is running with only one of its UPSes rather than the normal two, so we’ve cut our electricity consumption slightly until we get the second UPS back. One obvious target […]
This post is mainly just to announce that the student lab machines can now be woken from sleep in the way one might reasonably expect: with a key press or mouse click. Previously they could only be woken by pressing the machine’s power button. As the author of the LCFG sleep component which configures these […]
Development of new computing services by the computing staff is now scheduled in project periods (three per year). The next project period starts in January 2011 and the process of prioritising which projects will be resourced starts now (end Nov). This is a call for project proposals for the next project period. Please add any […]
With the recent increased scrutiny of public sector expenditure, it is more important than ever that we follow correct procedures for purchasing IT equipment. The following link outlines how we should go about purchasing IT equipment :- http://www.inf.ed.ac.uk/systems/procurement/
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