The BIC provides a number of IT services that researchers and students can continue to access remotely during the COVID crisis. This post will list those resources, with relevant links. Please post questions on this thread if you need help accessing or using any of these.
As usual you can email bicadmin@bic.mni.mcgill.ca for support.
Watch this video for a quick demo of the tools listed below:
BIC IT Services
- Box.BIC is a web-based file sharing service (similar to Dropbox) hosting data for many labs. Log in using your McGill email and password.
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Forum.BIC is this web forum. Most content can be accessed without logging in. If you’d like a private section for your group, this is available.
- Log in to the forum using your McGill email and password.
- How To Login To A Workstation Using X2GO
- How to Configure a X2GO Client Using A SSH Tunnel (more complicated than previous method)
- Guide to accessing BIC servers remotely: Logging in to the BIC
- Check the How-To section of this forum for more guides.
- Learn.BIC is a new online learning platform, hosting some video based trainings. Log in using your McGill email and password.
- McGill’s Work Remotely web page lists a number of tools offered by the university: https://www.mcgill.ca/it/work-remotely
- More items to be added.
This post has been setup as a wiki. If you’d like to add anything, you can edit this post.