D-GESS is a shareholder of Euler. We have access to nine fat compute nodes with 256GB of Ram and 10 TB Discspace (/cluster/project/gess/public). Euler is based on Linux. With Euler, Stata 13 MP may now be used with a graphic surface. Further information may be found here: Stata-WIKI Start using Euler: “Getting started with Euler” General information […]
D-GESS is a shareholder of ETH Scientific IT Services (“Shareholder model” for HPC computing power, Scientific Compute Clusters) Due to the wide-spread application of quantitative and computer-based methods in Social and Political Sciences, the demand for support in terms of research-oriented IT has increased substantially at D-GESS. After joining the Scientific IT Services (SIS) in 2014, the researchers […]
Hardware is acquired and financed centrally at D-GESS. The laptop stock comprises of models from Project Neptun. Desktop machines are purchased from Dell. With regards to Apple desktop machines, iMac hardware is continually be used. Special orders and their funding may be discussed with the support administrator. The operating time of our hardware is at […]
Information sheet on the IT agreement between IT services and D-GESS (PDF, 183 KB) (The PDF-document contains links which aren’t up to date anymore) In accordance with the “Agreement on the Support and Operation of IT Infrastructure at DGESS” (taking effect in mid-2010), the following provisions apply. The units of D-GESS are at liberty to […]
IT support as well as hardware and software are regulated by a central framework agreement between the D-GESS department and the IT Services. Furthermore, D-GESS is a shareholder of Scientific IT Services since 2014. This move was prompted on the one hand by the spatial consolidation of the department in the IFW/RZ building and on the other […]
The feature of AutoRecover will automatically save your working document in every specified minute, The Default is 10 Minutes. How to quickly access the AutoRecover file location when you need to recover the lost document in Word, Excel and PowerPoint? Windows Office 2013 / 2016 Path Replace wyssc with your ETH username Word: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word Excel: C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Excel […]
Twice a year at the beginning of the semester there is a sales deal of discount laptops from Lenovo and Apple http://www.projektneptun.ch/
polybox is a Dropbox-similar ETH on-campus storage. The service offers 50 GB of storage on the ETH storage facilities. The service is available to all ETH members and is free of charge. Please note that polybox is not a functional substitute for the ITS NAS service. In particular, synchronized folders should never contain the original file. The […]
You can connect to the wired network with the blue network cable. If you have a Open Stage telephone (WEV and SEC building), you can connect the network cable directly to the phone instead of the UTP connection in the wall. In your office there are several UTP connections, but not all are working. If you […]
ETHIS is the ETH Zurich web portal for personalised access to data, applications and evaluations relating to finance and personnel issues. Basic authorisation All staff are entitled to an ETHIS user. Any member of staff who does not yet have an ETHIS user can open one by logging in to the ETHIS page with the nethz-login. A […]