Monthly Archives: June 2011

As announced a couple of months back, we shall shortly be upgrading DICE desktops to Scientific Linux 6 (SL6), starting with the teaching labs. We propose to take this opportunity to switch the default architecture from 32bit to 64bit. SL6 … Continue reading →

With the DICE SL6 upgrade we will be formally decommissioning the schools two Condor pools over this summer. Condor is a system for stealing unused cpu cycles from distributed commodity computers for use as a High Throughput Computing platform. For … Continue reading →

We have recently measured the average noise levels in the ‘self-managed server room’ (i.e. B.Z14) of the Informatics Forum. The noise levels are not excessive, and they don’t present any Health & Safety issues given our expected working practices – … Continue reading →