What is DICE?
DICE (Distributed Informatics Computing Environment) is the project to create an infrastructure for computing within the School of Informatics. • Who is it for? It will support computing needs for all types of users within the School (staff (research, teaching, admin, COs, etc), postgraduate, undergraduate, etc). • What are the main DICE goals? flexible infrastructure DICE is an infrastructure for computing and network facilities provision, not a particular computer system in itself. It is important that it can satisfy the very varied needs of the various groups within Informatics. Consequently, using widely-accepted standards as appropriate, it aims to avoid undue constraints on what users can use the infrastructure for, while still conforming to the fundamental design principles. commodity computing From the outset ‘commodity’ computing will be provided under the DICE infrastructure for all users, which they are free to make use of or not, as suits their needs. ‘Commodity’ includes s
