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We have received a replacement for the SAN controller that failed following the power cut of the 11th of November. We had to abort our plan to replace it yesterday (Monday 18th) after we discovered there’s not enough slack in … Continue reading →

We suffered a power failure in the Informatics Forum on Monday 11th November 2013, starting at about 11am and ending at about 1pm. We still have no information from Estates and Buildings as to why this failure occured. Many users … Continue reading →

As people using the University’s EASE web login page will have hopefully noticed, the look of https://www.ease.ed.ac.uk will be changing at 8am on the 5th of November. The image below shows you what to expect, there may be small differences, … Continue reading →

On September 1st, 2013 the University of Edinburgh introduced a Total Academic Headcount (TAH) site licence for the Mathworks MATLAB® application and the MATLAB® Distributed Computing Server. This new TAH license will replace all our existing School provided research and … Continue reading →

With the upgrade to Sl6.4 we have opted not to upgrade the gridengine based beowulf cluster and this service is now decommissioned. The hardware is now fairly elderly and ECDF/Eddie provides an equivalent service with better resources for high thoughput … Continue reading →

If you are a new member of Informatics and use AFS (e.g. for access to your home directory or group file space) or would just like a refresher then we would like to invite you to attend our annual Introduction … Continue reading →

The Computing Team are pleased to announce the launch of a new graphical remote login service. This service provides access to your normal DICE desktop environment from any Linux, MacOSX or Windows based client. This service uses the NX technology … Continue reading →

As announced on sys-announce, to address security flaw in WordPress 3.6 and earlier, blog.inf.ed.ac.uk has been updated to the current version of WordPress (3.6.1). There will be some small changes, and you many notice pop-ups highlighting new options. If you … Continue reading →

To aid with a research project by ICSA’s Wireless & Mobile Networking (WiMo) Group, we have asked IS to reconfigure the wireless access points for the top three floors of the Forum temporarily.  For the month of September the 802.11a … Continue reading →

We have recently updated a number of Python modules on DICE which are useful for scientific data analysis. Here are the versions and links to the relevant documentation: numpy – 1.7.1 – docs scipy – 0.12.0 – docs pandas – … Continue reading →