Welcome to the centre/department. This page is to orient you to some of the computing resources to get you started.
- A departmental Microsoft Teams workspace.
- Access to the departmental github organisation
mrc-idewhich gives free private repos with more flexible collaboration options than personal repositories use. - Access to the cluster
- If you do not have one, please create a github account by visiting https://github.com
- Go to https://github.com/settings/emails and add your imperial email address to your github account. You can have multiple email addresses associated with your account, which comes in useful
- Activate "two factor authentication" (2FA) on your github account, using these instructions
- Fill in this very short form with your name, email and github account name
- Watch out for the email in your imperial inbox, or visit https://github.com/mrc-ide to accept
The form will email people who can set you up - it shouldn't take more than a day or so.
Go to https://github.com/settings/notifications and:
- Untick Automatically watch repositories
- Untick Email under Watching
- Set up an email filter to collect all emails from
notifications@github.comto be routed to a folder separate from your inbox (but still keep an eye on it)
These instructions predate remote working, but will be relevant on return to the building.
For the best network speed and reliability, use a wired network connection. When this is not possible, you'll need to use Pulse Secure to access DIDE network shares, or to connect to your desktop PC. See here
Please see the documentation to get started:
- Non R users: https://mrcdata.dide.ic.ac.uk/wiki/index.php/Cluster_Documentation
- R users: read this and this
You will need your account activated - if you email or message Wes on Teams he can do this for you.
technical team, go to https://github.com/mrc-ide/technical for the next steps