This summer we are upgrading the operating system of the approximately 300 DICE machines in Appleton Tower student labs from the current version Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish (22.04) to the newer Noble Numbat (24.04) in time for the new teaching Semester.  Some versions of software packages may differ in the new OS.  As part of this […]

DICE is also available as a virtual machine. We call it Virtual DICE. It can run in a variety of environments – Windows, Linux, Mac, and so on. The computing help pages give details on how to download, install and use it. Virtual DICE was previously in testing. It’s now a supported service, so please […]

If you normally stay logged in to DICE overnight, read on. From Wednesday night (29 May) DICE desktops will be more likely to fall asleep. For some years our DICE desktops have slept when nobody was logged in and the computer seemed idle. From Wednesday they’ll also fall asleep even if a login session is […]

We want to save energy, so we try to ensure that DICE computers sleep when idle. The graph below shows how many DICE desktops were asleep during each hour of a recent week. It was produced by David Sterratt, and I’d like to thank him for his work on it and for his interest in […]

Over the next few weeks, SL6 DICE desktop computers will start falling asleep when idle. The aim is to make them use less energy. At present most DICE desktops run F13 or SL5 DICE. These computers will not sleep any more than at present. Once they have been upgraded to SL6 they will mostly start […]