DICE News 2002-07 #2

General: 1) DICE pilot service

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1) DICE pilot service

   We are pleased to announce the availability of DICE pilot service.

   There is a central machine available for remote logging in and each
   site will have one or more machines that users can sit down in
   front off to test out interaction with the default environment
   (KDE).

   Although DICE is being used on a daily basis the pilot is not
   intended to be a general service yet as there are still known
   issues.  However, if after your initial excursion into the DICE
   world you wish to volunteer for more regular use, contact your
   local support team about getting a DICE machine.  We want to create
   a test group who we can monitor closely and give prompt assistance
   to during the early stages.

   Since one of the most difficult aspects to test is scale we are
   going to be introducing users gradually so we can monitor the
   impact.

   If you want to have access to the pilot service you will need to
   get a password from your local support people.  Since we want to
   control the pilot fairly carefully we would like to hand out paper
   documentation with the passwords in the early stages to make sure
   that users are aware of the circumstances of the pilot. (NB: at BP
   we won't be handling requests until Monday 15/7 as our CSO is
   away).

   You can find references to relevant documents on the DICE
   Deploy page at
   http://www.dice.informatics.ed.ac.uk/deploy/index.html#deploy_pilot

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