Computing services | Documentation Skip to main content Search form Search 2021/22 students COVID-19 Computing Help Contact us (external) Contact us New to Informatics? Computing accounts Services AFS and filesystems AV facilities Backups and mirrors Corpora Desktop Finder app External logins (SSH) GPU and cluster computing Git/Gerrit ISDD Login Logs Office 365 PostgreSQL Qualtrics survey platform Remote Desktop Service (XRDP) Remote wake-up Research Data Management SVN/CVS Self-managed server rooms Sleep Theon (School Database) Virtualisation Webmark General purpose servers Self-managed backups Web Mail Printing Network Platforms Software Guides and HOWTOs Remote working Learning Technology Policies and guidelines Projects Student laptops Teaching Raising queries and escalation FAQ You are here Home Computing services Printer-friendly version There's a range of services for computer users in Informatics. It's a long list, but it's in bite-sized chunks: How to log in The Desktop Finder app helps you find a student lab with free desktop computers. Login from anywhere with ssh or with a graphical DICE login, and see General purpose computing servers. The Remote Desktop service gives a graphical DICE login from the wider internet. Remote working. Login logs - check your recent logins: does anyone else have access to your account? Remote wake-up of DICE desktop computers. Wireless network. Email, web and printing services Email services. Web services. Printing (and scanning and copying). Office 365 productivity tools. Coltex - 'Collaborative LaTeX Document Repository' - versioning and shared editing for LaTeX. Accessing your files and data AFS and filesystems - we use AFS for home directories and shared group space. Backups and mirrors - regular backup copies of your data. See also Backups for self-managed machines. Subversion and Git and gerrit code repositories. PostgreSQL databases for teaching and research. Audio-visual equipment, recordings, and holding events Event and AV facilities - such as microphones, networking, screens and projection, cameras. Media Hopper Replay is the University's lecture recording service. IS conference help and facilities - IS provides IT facilities for conferences and events organised via Edinburgh First. Research support Corpora for research. ECDF (Edinburgh Compute and Data Facility) is a high-performance cluster of servers (1968 processors) and storage (around 239TB of data capacity) which is available to researchers from, and associated with, the University of Edinburgh. GPU and cluster computing - large scale computing. Informatics Software Download Database (ISDD) - a repository for software downloads. PostgreSQL databases for teaching and research. Qualtrics - a survey platform Server rooms for self-managed servers - a home for rack-mounted servers. Virtualisation - virtual machines and hosting services. Teaching support The Desktop Finder app helps you find a student lab with free desktops. Learning Technology support - we help staff with online assessment, online learning, and more. Media Hopper Replay is the University's lecture recording service. GPU and cluster computing - large scale computing. PostgreSQL databases for teaching and research. Theon - the School's primary information management system. Admin - where to go Purchasing - how to buy IT equipment: rules and procedures we must follow. Theon - the School's primary information management system. Webmark is an online forms tool. The services on this page are provided either by the School's own computing team or by IS, the University's computing division. The Computing accounts page lists the various accounts you may need to use when accessing these services. 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