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Systems & Tools
Lab services catalog
Every service the lab runs, what it's for, and how you sign in to it — which ones use lab single sign-on and which ones require two-factor.
Everything the lab runs, grouped by what it does. Each card shows how you sign in. Addresses aren’t listed here on purpose — members get them from the member docs or from Francisco.
How to read the labels
SSO means you sign in once at the lab portal and this service accepts that session. Lab account means the service checks the same username and password, but shows you its own login form. Own login means a separate account you set up for that service alone.
Accounts and sign-in
Sign-in portal
The lab's front door. Sign in once here and the SSO services below accept it.
Password self-service
Change your own lab password and manage the SSH keys that let you into lab machines.
Password reset
Locked out? Start recovery here — it stays reachable when you can't sign in.
Identity service
Where lab accounts and groups actually live. Administrators only, and only from campus or the VPN.
Talking to each other
Lab chat
Day-to-day conversation, channels per project, and where to ask for help first.
Notifications
Push alerts from lab systems to phones and desktops. Mostly used by automation.
Files and storage
Lab Files
Everyday working files, with a desktop sync client, phone apps, and sharing. Start here.
Lab Archive
Long-term, redundant storage for finished datasets and material that must not be lost.
Lab Storage
Bulk upload area for very large datasets, reached over SSH with per-person quotas.
Password vault
Shared and personal credential storage. Kept deliberately outside single sign-on.
Code and documents
Git hosting
Lab code repositories. Sign in on the web with SSO; push over SSH with your key.
E-signature
Send and sign lab documents. Signing links work without an account by design.
Public documents
This site — onboarding, guides, and how-tos that need no account.
Member documents
Internal how-tos for lab members: machines, storage, research apps, workflows.
Administrator runbooks
Infrastructure operating procedures. Restricted to administrators.
Agentic AI handbook
Open handbook on the lab's agentic-AI concepts, patterns, and tooling.
Machines and AI
Lab machine login
SSH access to lab workstations and GPU servers, with your key and lab account.
Model gateway
One endpoint for the lab's language models, for use from code and tools.
3D and XR generation
Generate 3D assets and scenes on the GPU machines, and stream to headsets.
AgenticXR service
Backend service for the lab's agentic XR experiments.
Dashboards and monitoring
Member dashboard
Your at-a-glance view of lab machines and services.
Machine metrics
Live CPU, memory, disk, and temperature graphs for every lab machine.
Service status
Whether lab web services are up. Status pages are viewable without an account.
Fleet dashboard
Administrator control panel for the lab's machines and settings.
Telemetry and logs
Central logs, metrics, and alerting dashboards. Administrators only.
Backups console
Backup jobs, snapshots, and restores. Administrators only.
Fleet status page
A public, summarised view of which lab machines are online.
Lab operations
Equipment inventory
What hardware the lab owns, where it is, and who has it checked out.
Grants tracker
Funding-opportunity tracking for lab proposals.
Administrator console
Create and manage lab accounts, groups, and access policies.
Lab website
The public face of the lab: research, people, and publications.
Contact and sign-up forms
How people outside the lab reach us, and how prospective members express interest.
Project sites
Standalone sites for individual research projects and initiatives.
Notes
- A few internal machine-to-machine services aren’t listed, because they have no human interface — bridges, relays, and collectors that only other programs talk to.
- “Own login” is not always a gap. The password vault is kept out of single sign-on on purpose: if it depended on SSO, an SSO problem would lock us out of the very credentials needed to fix it.
- Two-factor is set per service, not per person. Administrative and state-changing tools require it; read-only and low-risk ones generally don’t.
- Don’t have access to something you need? Ask Francisco. Most services are granted by adding you to a group.
Source: content/systems/services-catalog.md · maintained in the lab docs repository.