DICE stands for Distributed Informatics Computing Environment.
The term DICE encompasses all those computing services developed, maintained and supported by the School's computing staff.
Our servers run DICE, including GPU provision such as the Informatics Compute Facility (ICF).
The term DICE desktop is used to refer to the Linux desktop PCs managed by the School, located in Appleton Tower teaching labs plus some public spaces of the Informatics Forum. Some staff and research postgraduates also choose to have a DICE desktop.
You will need a DICE account to login to a DICE desktop or use any of the DICE services.
The term DICE wire is used to refer to the network subnet that DICE desktops in the Forum are connected to.
A number of papers have been published about various aspects of DICE.
What is Linux?
To find out more about Linux and DICE, see Linux page
and DICE platform.