Remote lab computers | Documentation Skip to main content Search form Search 2020/21 students COVID-19 Computing Help Contact us New to Informatics? Computing accounts Services Mail Printing Network Platforms Software Guides and HOWTOs Remote working Access local web pages Chrome Remote Desktop Learning online Microsoft Teams tips Online meetings Online recruitment Remote lab computers Remote teaching Test your network Using Zoom Where are my files? Learning Technology Policies and guidelines Projects Teaching Raising queries and escalation FAQ You are here Home » Remote working Remote lab computers Printer-friendly version If you're a taught student(*), you can login remotely to a computer in the Informatics student labs. This is where you can do your coursework, and it's also where you can run programs which need a lot of memory or processing power, or which take days to run. (* Except for CDT students. Sorry! But since they're also research students, they can use various ⇒ computing clusters and ⇒ staff servers.) Your lab computer Your lab computer's name is your DICE username followed by .lab.inf.ed.ac.uk. For example, if your username was s1234567 your lab machine would be s1234567.lab.inf.ed.ac.uk. How to login Login to your lab computer using ssh. For example,
ssh s1234567.lab.inf.ed.ac.uk
You type this command into a terminal window in your Remote Desktop session. Remember to use your own DICE username instead of s1234567! For example Start a Remote Desktop session In that session, open a terminal window. In that window, type:
ssh your-DICE-username.lab.inf.ed.ac.uk
but remember to replace your-DICE-username with your own DICE username. Then do your coursework in that terminal window. For example, to run MATLAB you would type: matlab & Putting & after your command runs it in the background, so that you can continue to use the terminal window. Please try to run coursework on your lab machine, instead of elsewhere in your remote.inf.ed.ac.uk session. See also ⇒ Remote desktop service. ⇒ How to open a terminal window. ⇒ Remote working. ⇒ Chrome remote desktop. ⇒ External login (ssh) servers. Problems? If you have problems connecting to your .lab.inf.ed.ac.uk machine, please contact Computing Support: ⇒ How to contact computing support We will fix your problem as soon as we can but it is likely to require us to visit the labs so won't be done immediately. In the meantime, you can access an Remote Desktop session and then from there, you can access student.compute via ssh to run any computational jobs. Last reviewed: 14/10/2020 System Status Home dirs (AFS) Network Mail Other services University services Scheduled downtime Choose a topic - Select - accounts ACL AFS Android Appleton Tower assessment authentication AV azure backups bash beginner blackboard blog cabal cdt chrome Chrome Remote Desktop cloud cluster CodeGrade Collaborate commercialisation conda connectivity corpora cosign coursework CUDA CVS Cygwin data protection data safe haven database datashare datastore datasync datavault Debian desktop development DICE display managers DNS Dropbox ECDF emacs email encryption energy environment equipment escalation events exams exFAT firefox firewall flexlm floorbox forms GDPR gem Gerrit ghc Git GNOME GPFS GPU groups guides hadoop haskell help homepages howto https hybrid ifile ifriend ILCC GPU inactivity Informatics Forum installation iOS java Jupyter KDE kerberos knowledge management kvm laptops latex ldap Learn Learning Technology lecture recording legacy Leganto licensing linux logging long-running job MAC address macOS mailing lists make map/reduce maple mariadb matlab MDP Media Hopper microsoft mirrors mounting mysql network network ports NTP numerical computing nvidia office365 online learning online meetings OpenVPN overleaf panopto passwords PDF phishing plugin policies poster PostGIS PostgreSQL power power-saving print credit printing privacy projects prolog proxy public keys purchasing putty python quota reading list realcrypt records remote working Resource Lists root RPMs RT ruby safari samba scanning school database scl SDXC security self-managed servers shell SL7 sleep slurm smtp software software collections solstice spam spnego ssh ssl stack storage subnet sudo support surveys SVN teaching teaching exams template tesla tex theon time tls Top Hat topcoat training truecrypt Turnitin Ubuntu UPS USB veracrypt video-conferencing Virtual DICE virtualbox virtualisation virus visitor accounts vlan VPN wake web webmark webots wepresent wiki window managers Windows wireless Your University Login Zoom Feedback To leave feedback or other suggestions about this website, please see our contact page. A statement on Data Protection and Interception on Informatics Managed Systems. Unless explicitly stated otherwise, all material is copyright The University of Edinburgh.
