Gentoo Linux Hints and Tips I have worked with Gentoo Linux now for a few years, see: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Whilst I am not exactly a `newbie...
What is the G R Toolkit? The G R Toolkit combines the best software developed at SFTC during its e Science Programme from 2001 2007. Much of this was developed in...
This is the Daresbury Laboratory Web Server for the STFC Computational Science and Engineering Group for HPC and Grid Technology. You can find out about the projects...
StereoWorks RobAllan 25 Nov 2010 From Virtalis provides stereoscopic viewing, from real time interactive VR or pre prepared stereo movies, allows full depth perception...
MPICH 2 1.2.1 RobAllan 11 Feb 2010 As root (or installer), download source from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/ ignore the older Web pages...
A CCP for Agent Based Modelling and Simulation RobAllan 1 July 2010 A separate Wiki will be used for further discussion, see http://www.softeng.rl.ac.uk/wiki/abm...
HPC Centres and Strategies for Advancing Computational Science in Academic Institutions RobAllan 19 Apr 2010 over Europe here is the current view. Please...
Building and using OpenMPI 1.4.1 RobAllan 20 Apr 2010 Current version is OpenMPI 1.4.1. See here http://icl.cs.utk.edu/open mpi/software/ompi/v1.4/ to download...
GNU Build System (Autotools) RobAllan 04 Mar 2010 For an overview, see the Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU build system A typical bootstrap...
Network Traffic and Firewall Issues in Grids RobAllan 02 Mar 2010 Note, many below are well known IANA service ports. PKI, TLS and Digital Certificates Introduction...
Daresbury Laboratory Condor Pool This static information was last updated 3/3/2009. This pool is currently maintained by Rob Allan and Dave Cable. /opt/condor/bin...
condor user script #!/bin/bash # As simplified by Dave Cable February 2010 groupadd g 14168 condor useradd u 14168 g condor c `Condor` m d /home/condor s...
Using fsck (be careful!) RobAllan 15 Feb 2010 Fsck is a disk checking utility which calls underlying utils like fsck.ext2. Generally it should not be used on...
Environment Modules RobAllan 11 Feb 2010 Modules on dl1 are in /usr/share/Modules/modulefiles etc. Follow the format of existing ones, and refer to the documentation...
Sun Grid Engine 6.2 RobAllan 11 Feb 2010 The master message log on dl1 is at /usr/local/sge6.2/default/spool/qmaster/messages If you are getting a job in an...