General purpose servers

Remote desktop (XRDP)

Use this to login to Informatics from home with a full graphical desktop. For details see:

• ⇒ Remote desktop (XRDP).

Remote login (ssh)

Use this to login to Informatics from home on the command line. For details see:

• ⇒ External login (ssh).

Compute servers

To run software that takes hours, days or weeks to finish, use a compute server. There are also powerful computing clusters.
For undergraduate and MSc students:

ssh student.compute.inf.ed.ac.uk

For staff, PhD students and visitors:

ssh staff.compute.inf.ed.ac.uk

Use the longjob command when your job will run for longer than 18 hours.

• ⇒ The longjob command.
• ⇒ GPU and cluster computing.