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Procedures to Provide Services to Users and Groups

The DICE environment provides various facilities which may be of use to groups of users who wish to work collaboratively. If you are interested in finding out more about any of the facilities listed below, please contact Support providing the required information.

Who can Request a Group Facility?

Research groups, groups of researchers and academic staff may request any of the facilities listed in this document. Research students may require the support of their supervisors. In some cases, facilities may be granted to MSc students or undergraduate students, at the request of a sponsoring member of staff.

Contact Support in the first instance.

Shared File Space

Groups of users may request access to shared file space. At the moment, it is possible to request either shared NFS file space ( which may be suitable if you intend to use long-running jobs) or shared AFS file space (which allows finer control over access to files, making it easier to apply the correct restrictions in the case of licenced data for example).

See Support for Supporters for information on how to proceed.

Group Web space

The groups web server enables groups to make their files available on the web. At the moment, use of cgi files is restricted on this service, though arrangments can be made on a case by case basis.

See ex web-team information for how to set this up.

CVS and Subversion Repositories

We can set up a CVS or Subversion repository for groups of informatics users, and for their external collaborators, although the status of external collaborators without DICE accounts, who have not therefore signed the University's computing regulations, is being reviewed.

To request access to an existing repository, please use the CVS request form

See ex misc-services team CVS and subversion documentation for how to set this up.

Information on how to grant access to a repository is contained in the generated email sent to RT when a person uses the request form.

e-mail accounts

To set up an email account for a new user please see:

ex-mail team information

e-mail list

A group of users may request an email list, provided one of those users takes responsibility for the management of that list. This list-owner must be a current member of Informatics staff or an Informatics student. See: http://lists.inf.ed.ac.uk/ for examples of current email lists.

See ex mail-team instructions for info on how to set up an email list.

wiki

The Informatics wiki server is available for groups of users and individual users who wish to add a new wiki web or to add to an existing web.

At the moment, new wiki webs are created by the services-unit.

Web Forum Service and Web Chat

Pilot services offering a web forum or web chat to groups of users may be made available.

Talk to morna or GrahamRule@ed about this.

Newsgroups

Newgsroups within the Informatics or Edinburgh hierarchies can be created at our request by the EUCS.

Mail scisup@ed with the request.

Contact Support to enquire about any of these services