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Pharmacy & PharmacologyComputing Services
Pascal LoizeauComputing Services SupporterDept. of Pharmacy & Pharmacology5W4.6a / [email protected]
Getting Help
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FAQs online and Problem reporting Form (Pink HELP! button)http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/
Get in touch with me:5 West 4.6a
BUCS Service Desk in the Library (Level 2, West wall)
• You have a “roaming profile” so your personal settings will follow you around.
• “My Documents” or “Documents” and the Desktop are redirected to your network filestore, at h:\dos\
• Do not install Dropbox client or other cloud clients!
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Centrally Delivered Services
Sun Ray Thin Clients• Found in the Library, cyber cafes,
and many corridors around the campus
• These don’t have any computing power themselves – they simply connect to our central servers.
• Allow access to a web browser, webmail, Windows terminal servers, a Linux desktop and a Unix terminal
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• UoB WiFi – ‘eduroam’ available around the University campus (including the residences).
• The Cloud http://www.thecloud.net/
Get Connected
Accessing Bath resources from off-campus
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• You can use Unidesk from anywhere – using the Microsoft “Remote Desktop Connection”
• You can then map our network drives to Windows and Mac and set-up \\myprint\general.
• Most web based services will be accessible.
• https://wiki.bath.ac.uk/display/Pharm/IT+services+tool+Kit
High Performance Computing (HPC)
• HPC clusters allows researchers to solve large, advanced, complex computational problems which are too big for a single machine to compute.
• P&P users can run a variety of programs on the clusters, working on a range of problems including but not limited to molecular interaction simulations, X-ray crystallography and large-scale statistical analyses.
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Important bits and BUCS IT Policy:
NEVER tell anyone your password. If you do, and it’s abused, you will be held responsible.
BUCS never need to know your password, and will never ask for it.
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• Use your h: drive – 1GB default quota
• It’s the “My Documents” on windows
• Backed up every night + snapshots
• Check quota in “Your Account” on BUCS web
Backup
Save, save, save, and then save again. Use Research Network storage when possible.
Cloud solution:Google Drive: http://drive.google.com/Dropbox: www.dropbox.com/SkyDrive: http://skydrive.live.comPlease Do Not Install any of the above clients on a University machine, it will corrupt your profile.You must use their web interface instead.
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Backup the backup
Our primary means of communication
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• Has a separate quota to your h: drive• 1Gb maximum size• Webmail: https://webmail.bath.ac.uk• Default client on campus computers is currently
Mozilla Thunderbird but Outlook 2013 will be soon implemented.
• All email is virus scanned and given a spam rating – you can enable filtering if you wish.
Printing*** New Managed Print Service***
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• “managed print system” across the campus.• This is a secure, “follow me”, type service• General on Myprint
• Don’t ask me about budgets…
Check “Your Account” – from the homepage go to “Computing Services” then “Your Account”
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Person Finder – http://www.bath.ac.uk/contact/
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Use it to find: Ian Eggleston, Kevin Smith, Linda Humphreys and
your Tutor
The Computer Shop – IT (IT purchasing)
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For personal purchases use ITP in the Library
• For all your computing needs – USB sticks, CDs, DVDs, PCs, Laptops, Netbooks, Student Software, upgrades etc.
• It’s a ‘not for profit’ service
http://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/help/newstudent/index.htmlhttp://www.bath.ac.uk/bucs/
Youguru http://youguru.bath.ac.uk/university_of_bath_computing_services
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