There's a range of services for computer users in Informatics:

How to log in

• The Desktop Finder app [1] helps you find a student lab with free desktops.
• Login from anywhere with ssh [2] or with a graphical DICE login [3], and see General purpose computing servers [4].
• The Remote Desktop service [3] gives a graphical DICE login from the wider internet.
• Remote working [5].
• Login logs [6] - check your recent logins: does anyone else have access to your account?
• Sleep [7] and remote wake-up [8] of DICE desktop computers.
• Wireless network [9].

Email, web and printing services

• Email services [10].
• Web services [11].
• Printing [12] (and scanning and copying).
• Office 365 [13] productivity tools.
• Coltex - 'Collaborative LaTeX Document Repository' [14] - versioning and shared editing for LaTeX.

Accessing your files and data

• AFS and filesystems [15] - we use AFS for home directories and shared group space.
• Backups and mirrors [16] - regular backup copies of your data. See also Backups for self-managed machines [17].
• Subversion [18] and Git and gerrit [19] code repositories.
• PostgreSQL [20] databases for teaching and research.

Audio-visual equipment, recordings, and holding events

• Event and AV facilities [21] - such as microphones, networking, screens and projection, cameras.
• Media Hopper Replay [22] is the University's lecture recording service.
  
• IS conference help and facilities [23] - IS provides IT facilities for conferences and events organised via Edinburgh First.

Research support

• Corpora [25] for research.
• ECDF (Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility) [26] is a high-performance cluster of servers (1968 processors) and storage (around 239TB of data capacity) which is available to researchers from, and associated with, the University of Edinburgh.
• GPU and cluster computing [27] - large scale computing.
• Informatics Software Download Database (ISDD) [28] - a repository for software downloads.
• PostgreSQL [20] databases for teaching and research.
• Qualtrics [29] - a survey platform
• Server rooms for self-managed servers [30] - a home for rack-mounted servers.
• Virtualisation [31] - virtual machines and hosting services.

Teaching support

• The Desktop Finder app [1] helps you find a student lab with free desktops.
• Learning Technology support [32] - we help staff with online assessment, online training and more.
• Discussion Forums [33] - web-based discussion facilities can be set up on request.
• Media Hopper Replay [22] is the University's lecture recording service.
• GPU and cluster computing [27] - large scale computing.
• PostgreSQL [20] databases for teaching and research.
• Theon [34] - the School's primary information management system.

Admin - where to go

• Purchasing [35] - how to buy IT equipment: rules and procedures we must follow.
• Theon [34] - the School's primary information management system.
• Webmark [36] is an online forms tool.

The services on this page are provided either by the School's own computing team or by IS, the University's computing division. The Computing accounts page [37] lists the various accounts you may need to use when accessing these services.