Guides

Step-by-step instructions on how to use your DoC Computing resources.

In-depth tutorials on various topics can be found in the Tutorials section

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.

High Performance Computing

Guides for running CPU-intensive and GPU-intensive tasks

• Long Running Processes
• Slurm GPU Guide

Short Guides

Here are a series of short guides, PDF documents ready to print:

• We've started with a Doc Quota Guide guide, which backs up the main How to check your file quota guide below. ‌

• 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. ‌

Databases

How to access and manage databases housed on one of the Department's database servers.

• Connecting to PostgreSQL databases
• PostgreSQL connections from off-site

Computer purchase and support

• A guide on buying desktop, laptop and server computers for use within the department.

Users

• What happens when I leave DoC??