Step-by-step instructions on how to use your DoC Computing resources.
File Storage
How to access and manage your files on network fileservers, including:
- How to ensure your vital data is safely backed-up
- Recovering files from backups
- Laptop Encryption
- How to check your file quota
- Accessing your files remotely using Secure Copy (SCP) / Secure FTP (SFTP)
Remote Access to DoC
- Shell servers and SSH keys guide
- How to set up and use remote access.
Python
Setting up a Python Virtual Environment in /vol/bitbucket
Private IaaS Cloud
You can find the main documentation for the Department's Private IaaS Cloud here.
High Performance Computing
Guides for running CPU-intensive and GPU-intensive tasks
Short Guides
Here are a series of short guides, PDF documents ready to print:
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We've started with a Doc Quota Guide guide, which backs up the main How to check your file quota guide below.
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We've followed the above up with a Long Running Processes short guide. This backs up the information in our main Long Running Processes guide.
Printing
Please see the following CSG Printing Guide for information on setting up and using printers in DoC.
Databases
How to access and manage databases housed on one of the Department's database servers.
- Connecting to Microsoft SQL Server databases
- Connecting to PostgreSQL databases
- PostgreSQL connections from off-site
Web Hosting
How to set up and use the web-hosting services provided for groups and individuals.
Java
We provide some information about using Java in special ways in the Department:
- Using JDBC with Postgres and MS SQL Server
- Kerberos authentication using Java
- Introduction to Java Servlets, JSP, Tomcat etc
- JSP Tutorial - some Examples of Java Servlet Pages
- Using Personal Tomcat in DoC
- Servlet Tutorial - Some Examples of Java Servlets