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Category Archives: Software
New Portland compilers
Version 14.9 of the Portland Group compiler suite is now rolling out on managed Linux workstations running Ubuntu 14.04 and managed clusters. If you are running the older managed Linux image based on Ubuntu 12.04 and want access to the … Continue reading
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New Intel compilers and version number confusion
This week we’ve installed two new versions of the Intel Compiler suite on the Linux workstations and clusters. Because all compilers and codes have their quirks, we try to keep several different versions of each compiler available at all times. … Continue reading
MATLAB R2014a available for Linux workstations
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.
Providing Python
The Python programming language has become very popular in the scientific computing world in the last few years. In Chemistry we have always provided a wide range of compilers for the widely used scientific languages Fortran and C, but our … Continue reading
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Mathematica 10.0 now available
Mathematica 10.0 is now available to those groups who contributed to the cost of the Mathematica licence. For those using managed Windows, Mac, or Linux workstations the software is available through the usual means. For more details or to get … Continue reading
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Thunderbird Upgrades
We’ve been having some troubles with users who have upgraded from Thunderbird 17 to Thunderbird 24 (despite the jump in numbering, that’s only one version different – Thunderbird recently changed their version numbering scheme to match Firefox). The symptom was … Continue reading
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You are in a maze of twisty dependencies, all alike
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
ngrep
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
Pipe viewer
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