Dear Colleagues

I am pleased to be able to announce that YNiC is open for scanning. This is possible because of the remarkable efforts of the staff in YNiC over the last 9 weeks and I would like to publicly acknowledge their selfless and tireless efforts.

The booking database is available again and scanning is possible in both MRI and MEG.

We have checked that data acquired on the scanners can be saved to the main disc arrays within the IT server room and that this data is also archived to tape.

Users can now gain access to their home disc spaces and project spaces. We would be grateful if Users could check their files. We do know that a few filenames in a very small number of projects have been changed during the recovery process. The only files that will have been affected are those that originally had a colon character (:) in the filename. This will now be an underscore (_). If you need help or see a change that affects you please send an email to it.manager@ynic.york.ac.uk

Remote access is now available.

Please note that for those who have access to the Remote Desktop service, you need to make sure that you are running version 3.5 of the client (most people will already be doing this) and that a new key is necessary. Instructions on changing the connection key can be found at:

https://www.ynic.york.ac.uk/doc/ITPages/RemoteDesktop/InstallingNX

To check whether or not you have at least 3.5 installed, please start the NX Client and go to the "About" tab where the version number will be displayed.

BUT...

We are still waiting for equipment to be delivered to allow a complete resumption of all the services. The key components that are NOT yet available relate to the computing cluster.

FSL and Matlab are available and work from the desktop in the open plan area.

MEG analysis that uses the computing cluster is not yet available. I will let you know when the compute cluster has been reactivated

Gary