Category Archives: Linux

MATLAB R2014a available for Linux workstations

Posted on August 8, 2014 by Catherine E. Pitt

MATLAB R2014a is now available on the Ubuntu 14.04 (Trusty) Linux workstations. Load the matlab/R2014a module to use it. The default version of MATLAB is still R2013b. We’re working on getting the newer version for the other operating systems.

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Hobbiting

Posted on January 29, 2013 by Adam Thorn

We use a system called Hobbit to monitor all of the computers in the department. (Catherine wrote about this system not too long ago). In fact, that’s what drives this webpage which tells you the current status of all the … Continue reading →

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You are in a maze of twisty dependencies, all alike

Posted on October 26, 2012 by Catherine E. Pitt

We were recently asked to install a new piece of scientific software on one of the compute clusters. This software relies on a number of other pieces of software which we didn’t already have installed. And those in turn have … Continue reading →

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ngrep

Posted on October 19, 2012 by Adam Thorn

This week, I’ve spent some time analysing traffic on our network to try to get to the bottom of some slightly odd behaviour we’ve been seeing. Ordinarly I’d use tcpdump and/or wireshark. They’re great for capturing traffic and filtering by, … Continue reading →

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Pipe viewer

Posted on October 4, 2012 by Adam Thorn

I’ve been moving many terabytes of data between servers this week, and have been using a lot of piped tar commands to help out. Now it’s often useful to have a progress indicator when dong any sort of lengthy operation, … Continue reading →

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