- Physics-Departmental-Computing

Labview for students
by David Colling 05 Jun '14

05 Jun '14

Dear Physics Computing people, NI are currently giving us a year's free trial for LabView for students as part of our departmental license. When we renew the license in July, we either need to pay for this (about a 20% increase in the cost) or loose it. Currently ~50 students have taken out a license. My feeling is that, provided that it doesn't stop us using it on student projects and other (which I am pretty sure that it doesn't), we should not pay for it. I don't see why we should be providing students with labview for their own use.Is there something that I am missing? Best, david

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Re: [Physics-Departmental-Computing] IT Facilities in Physics
by David Colling 30 May '14

30 May '14

Hi Victoria, Not that I know of. I am forwarding this to the Departmental Computing list because there are helpful and friendly people from ICT on it and because I would be curious to know if this situation occurs with project students in other groups. We have spoken about a project cluster several times but decided that it would hardly be used. Comments welcome, david On 28/05/14 14:04, Carter-Cortez, Victoria wrote: > Hi Dr Colling, > > I am and undergraduate student currently undertaking a computational project and have been trying to run my code in the Department's lab. I have attempted this a couple of times and have been signed of by the computers on every occasion. Unfortunately, the code takes a very long time to run and I expect it will take a good number of days to complete. > > I was wondering if there are any other IT facilities that I could access to make this process faster? > > I hope this is the correct means for making such an enquiry. > > Kind regards, > > Victoria > >

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COMSOL Multiphysics ...
by Jony Hudson 09 May '14

09 May '14

Dear all, our group have held a COMSOL licence for a while now, and it’s due for renewal. I thought it wise to check first whether any other groups in the department: already have licences that it might be more cost effective to join up with; or, would like to join up with us for a purchase. Get in touch with Noah Fitch if you’re interested, as he’s going to be doing the buying <n.fitch(a)imperial.ac.uk>. Thanks, Jony -- Centre for Cold Matter, The Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College London, London SW7 2BW T: +44 (0)207 5942986 http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/jony.hudson http://www.imperial.ac.uk/ccm/research/edm http://gorilla-repl.org/ http://j-star.org/ --

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FW: Intel® Software Development Products update available
by Mannall, Adrian B 08 May '14

08 May '14

For info. More updates. From: Twist, Alex M Sent: 08 May 2014 20:08 To: Mannall, Adrian B; Mussard, Mike J Subject: FW: Intel® Software Development Products update available ________________________________ From: Intel (R) Software Development Products Sent: 08 May 2014 20:08:00 (UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London To: Twist, Alex M Subject: Intel® Software Development Products update available (If the characters do not show properly, please try viewing this email with UTF-8 encoding.) [Important Software Update Now Available!] [Left column] [https://registrationcenter-ssl.intel.com/Images/4576_Intel_IRCEmail_smb-tab…] [Right column] Important software updates are now available for you to download and install. These free updates are included as part of your product support service. [UPDATE NOW] Intel® Integrated Performance Primitives for Linux* 8.1 Update 1 Available May 7, 2014 What's new: Release Notes ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-ipp-81-library-release-notes/> [Download] <https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/Download.aspx?ProductID=1979…>Intel® Threading Building Blocks for Linux* 4.2 Update 4 Available May 7, 2014 What's new: Release Notes ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-threading-building-blocks-re…> [Download] <https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/Download.aspx?ProductID=1868…> [Horizontal rule] Resources Download, Registration, and Licensing Help ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-registration-licensing/> Product Forums ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/> Learning Lab ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-learning-lab/> Intel® Software Development Products Registration Center ›<https://registrationcenter.intel.com/> [Horizontal rule] Copyright © 2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. NOTE: This email was generated automatically – please do not reply to this message. We value your privacy. To unsubscribe from this notification, please click here<https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/unsubscribe.aspx?EmailID=a.t…> and you will be removed from this list. *Legal Information |<http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/tradmarx.htm> Privacy Policy<http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/privacy.htm> © 2014 Intel Corporation Intel Corporation 2200 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054

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FW: Intel® Software Development Products update available
by Mannall, Adrian B 08 May '14

08 May '14

For info there are new Intel Compilers and MKL for Linux as licensed under the Faculty purchased floating five seat license for research. Regards Adrian. ________________________________ From: Intel (R) Software Development Products Sent: 08 May 2014 00:20:19 (UTC) Dublin, Edinburgh, Lisbon, London To: Twist, Alex M Subject: Intel® Software Development Products update available (If the characters do not show properly, please try viewing this email with UTF-8 encoding.) [Important Software Update Now Available!] [Left column] [https://registrationcenter-ssl.intel.com/Images/4576_Intel_IRCEmail_smb-tab…] [Right column] Important software updates are now available for you to download and install. These free updates are included as part of your product support service. [UPDATE NOW] Intel® C++ Composer XE for Linux* 2013 SP1 Update 3 Eng/Jpn Available May 6, 2014 What's new: Release Notes ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-c-composer-xe-2013-sp1-relea…> [Download] <https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/Download.aspx?ProductID=1775…>Intel® Fortran Composer XE for Linux* 2013 SP1 Update 3 Eng/Jpn Available May 6, 2014 What's new: Release Notes ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-fortran-composer-xe-2013-sp1…> [Download] <https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/Download.aspx?ProductID=1784…>Intel® Math Kernel Library for Linux* 11.1 Update 3 Available May 6, 2014 What's new: Release Notes ›<https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl-111-release-notes> [Download] <https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/Download.aspx?ProductID=1826…> [Horizontal rule] Resources Download, Registration, and Licensing Help ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/download-registration-licensing/> Product Forums ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/forums/> Learning Lab ›<http://software.intel.com/en-us/intel-learning-lab/> Intel® Software Development Products Registration Center ›<https://registrationcenter.intel.com/> [Horizontal rule] Copyright © 2014 Intel Corporation. All rights reserved. Intel and the Intel logo are trademarks of Intel Corporation in the U.S. and other countries. *Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. NOTE: This email was generated automatically – please do not reply to this message. We value your privacy. To unsubscribe from this notification, please click here<https://registrationcenter.intel.com/regcenter/unsubscribe.aspx?EmailID=a.t…> and you will be removed from this list. *Legal Information |<http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/tradmarx.htm> Privacy Policy<http://www.intel.com/sites/corporate/privacy.htm> © 2014 Intel Corporation Intel Corporation 2200 Mission College Blvd. Santa Clara, CA 95054

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Fwd: Withdrawal of the Yosemite Laptop Backup Service
by David Colling 24 Apr '14

24 Apr '14

FYI ... -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Withdrawal of the Yosemite Laptop Backup Service Date: Wed, 23 Apr 2014 15:28:45 +0000 From: Metcalfe, Christopher J <c.metcalfe(a)imperial.ac.uk> To: ICTAP Members <ccs-dept(a)imperial.ac.uk> [cid:image003.jpg@01CF5F11.18EB4BB0] Withdrawal of the Yosemite Laptop Backup Service What's changing? On 30 April 2014 the Yosemite Laptop Backup Service will be withdrawn Why is this happening? As of 31 March 2014 the supplier of the software used for the laptop backup service stopped supporting the product, meaning that there will be no more bug fixes or security patches. The future of the service was discussed at ICTAP (the ICT Advisory Panel) who decided that there was no need to offer the service from this point. As a result we are keeping the service running for an extra month to allow people to migrate off and then we will be shutting the service down on 30 April 2014. Who will be affected? This will affect anybody currently using the Yosemite laptop backup service. If you have a Yosemite Desktop-Laptop Backup icon in the bottom right hand corner of your screen you will be affected. It can also be running on desktops as well as laptops. What this means This means that anybody using the Yosemite laptop backup service to protect and restore their files will no longer be able to do so. You will have to remove the Yosemite Desktop-Laptop backup software from your computer. For anybody still seeking a laptop/PC backup service, Crashplan (http://www.crashplan.com) offers a cloud-based service for Windows, Linux, Macintosh and Solaris machines. (NOTE: this is an external service provider who will charge directly for its services. As such, anyone using the service must sign up and be bound by Crashplan's own terms and conditions). Timing This is happening on 30 April 2014 Support/Contact The withdrawal of the Yosemite backup service was previously discussed at the February 2013 ICTAP Meeting<https://workspace.imperial.ac.uk/ict/Internal/About%20ICT/ICTAP/2013/februa…> and further details can be found here<http://bit.ly/1i8K9JJ>. If you have any concerns in advance of this change, or need any help removing the Yosemite Desktop-Laptop backup software, contact your local Faculty Support Manager or the ICT Service Desk who will be happy to help. Chris Metcalfe Technical Manager - Architecture Information and Communication Technologies Level 4, Sherfield Building Imperial College London South Kensington Campus London SW7 2AZ Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 7286 Fax: +44 (0)20 7594 6919 E-mail: c.metcalfe(a)imperial.ac.uk<mailto:c.metcalfe@imperial.ac.uk>

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Departmental computing meeting next Monday (14/4/14)
by David Colling 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Dear All, I now have to go to CERN on Tuesday and so as Tuesday and Monday are jointly first in the doodle poll I thought that we should set this for Monday. ********************************************************* Please mail the list if you cannot make this. If enough people are off because of the school holidays then we will have to move untila after Easter but if this can be avoided it should be. ********************************************************* One of the things that I agreed to do after our meeting with Mike Russell today was to put together a rough document about the Departments Research Computing needs. This includes HPC, storage, network, HTC, etc etc. So if I could ask people to start to do this for the different groups it would be very good. Are there specific items for the agenda? Best, david

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Meeting with Mike Russell and doodle for a departmental meeting.
by David Colling 07 Apr '14

07 Apr '14

Dear All, Having spectacularly failed to schedule a meeting in the last two weeks I would rather like to fit one in before easter if we can. So there is a doodle poll at http://doodle.com/98y5xzpgu5gq2rns for people to give their availability. Also (perhaps more importantly), Jo and I are meeting with Mike Russell, College's CIO tomorrow. He has been in post since Novemeber and I believe is carrying out a strategic review. Are there specific things that people would like me to raise with him? My feeling is that college covers the teaching side of what is needed pretty well and that the research side of computing that has more variety, but I may well be wrong. So if people could could take a moment to note their likes and dislikes (what is important to them, what they couldn't do without, what they think could be done better etc), then I will try to pull together some common themes for tomorrow. Best, david

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Departmental meeting next week.
by David Colling 14 Mar '14

14 Mar '14

Dear Departmental computing people, We have not had a meeting this term. We can either try to fit one in next week (I am away the week after) or have one after the end of term. Does anybody have any preferences? Best, david

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"Free" Mathematica
by Rochford, Steve 22 Nov '13

22 Nov '13

Next time we look at renewing the Mathematica license, should we just buy a bunch of Raspberry Pi machines which <http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/385567/raspberry-pi-gets-wolfram-mathematica-fo…> now have Mathematica included for free??? - http://blog.wolfram.com/2013/11/21/putting-the-wolfram-language-and-mathema… I'd guess the processing power isn't there for serious calculations but it's an interesting idea and yet another good use for the Pi Steve

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