DICE desktops and servers

DICE desktops and servers run a version of Scientific Linux, currently SL7.4, and are managed using the School's machine configuration technology, LCFG.

Login account

You will require a DICE account before you can log in to a DICE desktop or server.

Home directories

Home directories on DICE machines are provided by the Informatics AFS filesystem.

The Shell

DICE accounts require the use of bash as login shell. We've modified bash slightly: the ~/.bash* scripts have different names on DICE. If you wish to customise your shell with startup scripts, you should read how the bash shell is configured under DICE.

Other useful info

• An introductory lecture on the DICE desktop (PDF handout from 2017 lecture) is given at the start of the academic session.
• Software on DICE explains how to find out what software we have and how to ask for more software to be installed.
• If you go away for a while please leave your DICE computer on - here's why.