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The Advanced Technology Lab is a resource of High Performance Computing Services, located in Lister Hill Library and part of the Office of the Vice President for Information Technology

Procedure to update packages on Rocks

Hi,

Listed below is a outline of the steps to be followed to update RPM packages on medusa.

1) Download or create the RPM and put this rpm in /home/install/contrib/4.1/arch/RPMS

2) Install it on the front end as follows:

# rpm -Uvh /path/to/created-or-downloaded RPM

3) Once the required RPM is installed on the front-end it requires to distributed to the compute nodes.This is done as follows:

# /home/install/site-profiles/4.1/nodes

# cp skeleton.xml extend-compute.xml

Inside extend-compute.xml, add the package name by changing the section from:

Rocks-Issue with Linpack

Hi,

On trying to run the linpack benchmark on medusa, we obtain the following error.
bm_list_9763: (5.116017) wakeup_slave: unable to interrupt slave 0 pid 9762
/opt/mpich/gnu/bin/mpirun.ch_p4: line 260: 9762 Illegal instruction /opt/hpl/gnu/bin/xhpl -p4pg /home/srividya/PIXroSLd9739 -p4wd /home/srividya
bm_list_9763: (5.116690) wakeup_slave: unable to interrupt slave 0 pid 9762
p1_30455: p4_error: Found a dead connection while looking for messages: 0

Some of the below discussions seem to point out that for P3's the Atlas library that is used with linpack must be rebuilt in order to solve this issue.

Optimization with DAKOTA

To understand and use DAKOTA (Design and Analysis Kit for Optimization and Terascale Applications) toolkit certain basic concepts of optimization
should be known,

In mathematics, optimization is concerned with finding the maxima and minima of functions, possibly subject to constraints. Example: maximize the profit of a manufacturing operation while ensuring that none of the resources exceed certain limits and also satisfying as much of the demand faced as possible. Optimization has many practical applications in logistics and design problems.

In computer science, optimization is the process of improving a system in certain ways to increase the effective execution speed and/or bandwidth, or to reduce memory requirements. Despite its name, optimization does not necessarily mean finding the optimum solution to a problem. Often this is not possible, and heuristic algorithms must be used instead.

Finally a Google Competitor!!

check out this link

http://beta.previewseek.com/ < http://beta.previewseek.com/ >

Here is some information about how prviewseek performs its search

Previewseek is an artificial intelligence based metasearch engine which uses a number of unique knowledge visualization , data clustering , statistical inference technologies. The service currently allows users to search for web files, images , and audio/video files as well as to query an online dictionary .

Previewseek is built on many of the principles of Web 2.0 . Its result pages often presents parsed data and information from other publicly available third party databases using a technology that the company calls DiscoveryBase. The service has been in public beta since 1 August 2005 .

Cannotea -- Subversion repository

Hi All,

I would like to discuss the repository structure for Cannotea in subversion before checking in the sources.
Firstly, there are three different trees that require to be checked in namely
1) /etc/httpd/lib/perl/Bibliotech which contains all the perl module libraries.
2) /var/www/html/bookmarks/ which contains the default template and the style sheets etc
3) /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.5 which is the default area where perl interpreter searches for modules.(Would like to know which of these have been changed or added for cannotea to work)
Another file is the bookmarks.conf which specifies the location of cannotea's libraries. located at /etc/httpd/conf.d/bookmarks.conf.

Mambo modifications

Mambo has now been modified to work with options similar to limbo
like external authorization, auto login and auto user registration.

The names of the variables respectively are
1) $mosConfig_ect_auth

2) $mosConfig_auto_login

3) $mosConfig_auto_user_registration

The files that have been modified for this to work are includes/mambo.php, index.php and modules/mod_login.php.

However, currently the entire mambo directory is being protected by shibboleth, and the anonymous user scenario is still not in place, which i am currently working on.

poster for sc|05

[phpwiki]
getting started on the layout of the sc|05 poster. it's a little close on
the deadline of next thrusday, but there's been some mental work to date.
should have left a little more time but these sites are providing some
good suggestions on how to approach it.

* duke biology poster guide, includes point sizes:

http://www.biology.duke.edu/resources/computer/poster/designaposter.html

* summary of someones poster makeing experience with some nice refernces in the links:

http://student.dcu.ie/~mcmahon4/posteradvice.html

* a good poster goal description from the doe:

Limbo Modules

using some print statements inbetween module calls i have listed down the modules which are loaded for a registered user:

mod_banner
mod_menu
mod_search
mod_login
mod_template
mod_rss
mod_newsfeed
mod_newsflash
mod_latest_news
mod_popular
mod_poll
mod_archive
mod_whosonline

modules loaded for an anonymous user,

modules/mod_menu
modules/mod_search
modules/mod_login
modules/mod_rss
modules/mod_newsflash
modules/mod_latest_news
modules/mod_popular
modules/mod_poll
modules/mod_archive
modules/mod_whosonline

so three more modules are loaded for a registered user, they are,

Unable to login to the Suse linux systems

I have been unable to log in to the Suse linux boxes since today evening and am also not able to log in to webapp through ssh on port 1025. Is anyone else having similar issues?

Thanks,
Srividya

PHP debug Functions

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Some of the PHP debug functions like debug_print_backtrace are only supported in PHP 5 which is not the PHP version with our current configuration. However, Some of other debug functions like debug_backtace, error_log etc are supported in PHP 4.3.0 and above and these functions work with the present configuration setting of PHP and Apache server.