The BBC news website tells us (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-55979665) that: “A large swathe of Edinburgh and the Scottish Borders was plunged into darkness following a power outage on Sunday night. “SP Energy Networks said about 88,000 homes experienced the power cut just after 21:00. “Households in the capital were affected, as well as properties as far south […]

[Revised & updated, Tuesday 19th January 2021] The information in this blog post is relevant to anybody who manages or uses a self-managed server located in the Informatics Forum self-managed server room IF-B.Z14. It does not relate to equipment located in the smaller Forum self-managed server room IF-B.01 – so anybody who manages or uses […]

If you don’t use any servers in either of the Forum self-managed server rooms, then please ignore this blog post – and have a nice day! However, if you do use any such machines, then it is important that you read the following, and fully understand the situation concerning power to those machines. We are […]

We now have a web page which can wake sleeping computers. It should wake most of our desktop machines (though not HP 7900 computers – see below). You can find it at wake.inf.ed.ac.uk. It seems a bad idea to let anyone on the internet wake any of our computers, so there are a few restrictions: […]

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 […]