Overleaf

Overleaf is a collaborative LaTeX service. Free Overleaf Professional accounts are available for all staff and students of the University of Edinburgh.
To find out more and to sign up, visit the site:

To find out about LaTeX in the School of Informatics, see our LaTeX page:

The teaching cluster

The Teaching cluster is used to support teaching courses, especially MSc courses and the Machine Learning Practical.

The teaching cluster has over 120 GPUs in 20 servers(landonia[01-25]). There are over 100 NVIDIA GTX 1060 6GB GPUs, and 8 NVIDIA RTX A6000 40GB GPUs, plus a small number of 12-GB-class cards.

The Slurm job scheduler

Some of the School's GPU compute clusters use the Slurm job scheduler.

Slurm matches computing jobs with computing resources. It tries to ensure that the resources are allocated fairly and that they are used efficiently. To ensure this it has complex prioritisation rules.

How to use Slurm

Slurm is widely used on supercomputers, so there are lots of guides which explain how to use it:

Desktop Finder

Desktop Finder helps you quickly find a lab with free desktops.

Limitations

  • It only works on eduroam wifi - not mobile data.
  • It's only for students with an account in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh.

Find a lab with free desktops using this URL (only on eduroam):

Webmark

Webmark is the School of Informatics' own web-based tool for filling in and submitting forms. It's used for a wide variety of administrative tasks. You will normally be directed by your local admin team or teaching office to fill in a specific form. Visiting webmark.inf.ed.ac.uk will show you a list of the forms which you have been authorised to use.

Haskell

There are usually several versions of the Haskell Compiler available on DICE, though usually only one version of the Haskell Platform. The default (as invoked by the ghc, etc.) will usually match the default provided by our upstream distributions, but others are available using various commands.

Ruby

Supported Versions

DICE usually has one default version of ruby (as invoked by the ruby, gem, etc.), but on some platforms others will be / can be made available. Here's a summary of normally installed versions:

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