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Virtual DICE

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 … Continue reading

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More sleep for DICE desktops

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 … Continue reading

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Sleep graphed

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 … Continue reading

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Automatic Sleep for DICE

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 … Continue reading

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