GIGA:PC

Introduction

Upon arriving at GIGA (or acquiring a new PC), contact the UDI (IT team) for the installation of a new PC using (XENIA).

The UDI team will perform the following tasks on your PC :

• Configure your access to the Internet
• Install/Update the Microsoft Office suite of programs on your PC.
• Install antivirus software on your PC
• Set up a GIGA directory. You are obliged to work in this and only this directory for all your professional, GIGA-related activities.
• Install an automatic, daily back-up system of this GIGA directory. The back-up system that will be installed uses the Dox@ULiège system.
• Insure your PC if it is owned by the ULiège.

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After that, one can finally work on GIGA's IT infrastructure which is composed of :

• A very large computing storage (hard drives)
• A synchronized backuping for office documents (DoX)
• A tool to share data with all non-GIGA users (GIGA-Share)
• A development platform community-driven (GitLab)
• High throughtput processing computers (Cluster/Grid)

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First steps

After all the basics configuration, through UDIMED-GIGA, all computers come with the basic set of tools including among other things a file and an internet navigators.

For most of GIGA members, it will be enough but some might need more (storage and/or data processing power).

That said, almost everything runs from those navigators : the user's private space is configured and available in file navigators, so are several scientific tools reachable through internet navigator.

• Cf. Tools list article.

Those tools are -in most cases- easy to access/use but that is for the people being inside GIGA.

For those who would want to do the same from outside GIGA, please refer to the outside GIGA article.

DoX

Like said above, computers come with several softwares.

Among those is installed a software called DoX. It is a program "Google Drive-like" which allows users to synchronize their datas with a cloud storage of 100Gb.

Depending on the operating system you use, you'll have to simply work at a specific place of your computer where everything is automatically sent to a secure and backuped storage of ours.

If you wish to install synchronization software, follows the links to grab the Setup files.

Windows

Installer for Windows
Installation (in French)

C:\Users\myusername\dox\

Mac OS

Installer for Mac OS

Users/myusername/Documents/dox/

Linux

Installers for Ubuntu 14.04 to 17.04 / Debian 7 to 9 / OpenSUSE 42.1 to 42.3 / Fedora 24 to 26 / CentOS 6 to 7

/home/myusername/dox/

Smartphones/Tablets

Installer for Android
Installer for iPhone
Installation for both (in French)

On mobile devices, you can't access the files from "outside" of the applications.
Meaning whenever you'll need to Import/Export/Share or whatsoever you will always need to do so from inside the app.

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