What are the main DICE goals?
flexible infrastructure DICE is an infrastructure for computing and network facilities provision, not a particular computer system in itself. It is important that it can satisfy the very varied needs of the various groups within Informatics. Consequently, using widely-accepted standards as appropriate, it aims to avoid undue constraints on what users can use the infrastructure for, while still conforming to the fundamental design principles. commodity computing From the outset ‘commodity’ computing will be provided under the DICE infrastructure for all users, which they are free to make use of or not, as suits their needs. ‘Commodity’ includes standard services such as mail clients, web browsing, text-editing, user filespace, printing, backups, etc. Commodity computing facilities will be fully supported. Commodity computing provision will use Intel-based hardware running the Linux OS. better maintainability and lower TCO One of the major headaches in supporting networks of computers is
