Tag Archives: Power Management

Power cut, Sunday February 7th 2021

Posted on February 10, 2021 by idurkacz

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 … Continue reading →

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Proposed power supply work in the Forum self-managed server room IF-B.Z14

Posted on January 13, 2021 by idurkacz

[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 … Continue reading →

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Power to self-managed servers in the Informatics Forum

Posted on April 23, 2020 by idurkacz

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 … Continue reading →

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Wake On LAN is now available

Posted on December 7, 2011 by Chris Cooke

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 … Continue reading →

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Automatic Sleep for DICE

Posted on July 4, 2011 by Chris Cooke

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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