Networking in the cluster can sometimes be confusing as some aspects are configured differently to the rest of the Informatics network. This page will explain the configuration and how this interacts with accessing the cluster including using the VPNs.
The principle differences are:
PIP is the School's central information management system. It holds and maintains data that's local to specific School needs and supplemental to central systems.
Although PIP is open to all University accounts, content is principally only made available to employees - although some specific modules also make content available to students. Further information is available from the Informatics Sharepoint Hub.
Google's Chrome Remote Desktop (or "CRD") is a way of sharing control of your remote DICE desktop session with somebody else. (Don't confuse it with our similarly named ⇒ remote desktop service.) We're using it to help facilitate group lab work, to help give participants some interaction and support when we can't provide these sessions face to face on campus.
First year Informatics students and students on a few other courses have access to CodeGrade. CodeGrade is currently used for both Inf1A and Inf1B. CodeGrade is used for course work, submission and marking.
There's a lot of helpful information - for students and for markers - at:
This page contains the privacy statement for Chrome Remote Desktop.
Please read this privacy notice carefully and contact us with any questions or concerns about our privacy practices.
The School of Informatics (the “School”) is part of the University of Edinburgh (the “University”).
The University supports the use of the Zoom video-conferencing service "for informal, non-confidential meetings, collaboration with external colleagues, and, where required, for facilitating University research".
For more details, and to find out how to download and use the correct version of Zoom, see the University's Zoom help pages. If you still have questions about Zoom, ask the University's IT Helpdesk. And finally, our Online Meetings page has advice on other solutions.
What should you use for online meetings? The University supports and recommends these, in order of preference:
The Research cluster is used to support postgraduate research students and research staff.
The research cluster has 123 GPUs: 95x NVIDIA RT2080Ti 11GB in 12 servers (damnii01-12) and 28x A40 48GB in 7 nodes (crannog01-07).
PGR Students on the appropriate programmes should get access automatically. if you can't access the nodes please submit an RT ticket.
The ILCC cluster is for members of ILCC and for CDT in NLP students.
It's easy to use a cluster the wrong way, so here are some tips on how to do it right.
See also the user-provided documentation: