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Author Archives: Catherine E. Pitt
Access to Amazon Web Services
The Department of Chemistry now has an arrangement with Amazon Web Services which allows researchers to access AWS and have the bills paid direct from one of their departmental accounts. Contact the Computer Officers if you would like to set … Continue reading
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Successor to PGI Compiler Suite now available: NVIDIA SDK HPC compilers
The NVIDIA SDK HPC compilers are now available on managed Linux workstations and newer compute clusters. These include C, C++, and Fortran compilers. They are a rebrand of the Portland Compiler Suite. Our documentation can be found at https://www.ch.cam.ac.uk/computing/software/nvidia-hpc-sdk-compilers .
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Intel compilers and maths libraries now free to use
For many years the department has had a licence for Intel’s optimizing compilers and maths libraries which is paid for by several research groups. Updated versions of the Intel compilers and libraries are now going to be released as part … Continue reading
Problems with ChemNet wifi 9th and 10th March 2021
We regret that there was a problem with ChemNet wifi between 8am on 9th March and 10.30 on 10th March which caused connections to fail to be assigned IP addresses, and so people would have found they had no network … Continue reading
Updated OpenVPN server
The Chemistry department has a VPN service providing remote access to our internal network. We’ve recently set up a second VPN server instance running a newer version of the VPN software with updated cryptography libraries and a great many bugfixes … Continue reading
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Intel compiler suite 2019 release 4 available
We’ve just installed release 4 of the Intel 2019 compiler suite on the managed Linux workstations. It will be rolling out to the compute clusters over the next couple of days. To use it, load the appropriate module: $ module … Continue reading
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Blogs server upgrade
We’re finishing off migrating the vast majority of our infrastructure servers from Debian to Ubuntu, and the blogs server is one of the many things that has had to be replaced. This post is to test the new blogs virtual … Continue reading
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Gaussian and Gaussview software
Gaussview 5 for Mac and Linux is now freely available to researchers in Chemistry as the graduate education office and computer office have bought a site licence for these packages. Gaussview can be used on its own, but is more … Continue reading
New software for managed Linux workstations
Mathematica 10.4, Intel compilers 2016 Update 2, and Portland compiler suite 16.1 are now available on managed Linux workstations running Ubuntu 14.04. The compilers are also available on local compute clusters.
Computer reps meeting Nov 2015
Slids from the talks from the group computer reps’ meeting held on 20th November 2015 are now online on the COs web site. Topics covered were Network update: Network upgrade progress / ChemNet / Wireless access points / Instrument VLAN … Continue reading
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