Our desktop computing platform is known as DICE - Distributed Informatics Computing Environment.
DICE includes all of the computing services developed, maintained, and supported, by the School's computing staff.
- DICE desktop computers use Ubuntu Linux (version 22.04, Jammy Jellyfish).
- DICE servers use either Ubuntu Linux (22.04 or 20.04) or Scientific Linux (version 7.9).
AFS, the Informatics filesystem
On DICE computers, your files are stored in a shared filesystem called AFS.
Files in AFS are stored centrally, so they're available on all DICE computers. They're backed up automatically.
In addition, each night we make an extra copy of your files. You can find this copy in your Yesterday directory (folder). If you delete a file then change your mind, you can copy it back from Yesterday. Remember that Yesterday is over-written each night.
Your DICE home directory has a "quota". This controls how much data you can store there.