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Problems posting to this list are now resolved
by David Colling 02 Jul '09

02 Jul '09

Dear All, the problems that were reported posting to this list would have effected anybody using the college exchange server. It just so happens that as HEP has its own mail server (which both Ray and I used) and my other test mail came from my gmail account. Anyway, it should all be fixed now. All the best, david

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Software to be installed on teaching machines
by David Colling 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Dear All, Below is an email that Dave Clements tried to forward to this list but to no avail as the message disappears into the ether. In fact I would be grateful if somebody other than me could send another test mail to the list so that we can see if the problem is a general one or if the list has just taken a personal dislike to Dave. All the best, david > From: "Rochford, Steve" <s.rochford(a)imperial.ac.uk> > Date: 18 June 2009 12:21:00 BST > To: "Clements, David L" <d.clements(a)imperial.ac.uk> > Subject: Software to install on teaching cluster machines in Physics > > We're starting to get ready the software build for cluster machines for the next academic year; I hope you're the right person to talk to about this or can point me to the right person. > > There is a standard set of software which goes on every machine (things such as Microsoft Office, virus scanner, Adobe Reader etc) and then software which is specific to the subject area. > > Last year the extra software for Physics was as below. Does this make sense for next year; are there any other packages which you would want to add or anything you think is unlikely to be needed and can be removed. > > If this doesn't make sense or it's easier to talk about this then please call me on 46843 or I can come and meet you at a convenient time. > > Steve > > Current physics cluster software > > Visual Studio 2008 and MSDN 2008 Library > GNU Scientific Libraries > NAGLib > Matlab (with Physics toolboxes) > Bakoma TeX > Exceed > Maple 12 (Maple 13 should be available if you want it) > Endnote X2 > Reference Manager 11 > GIMP (Image manipulation package) >

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A number of things ...
by David Colling 01 Jul '09

01 Jul '09

Dear Physics Computing people, There are a few of things that have come up that I thought best putting into a mail. These are: - a couple of people wrote me suggesting that we have a Departmental Computing Meeting before everybody disappears for the summer. However, these were largely along the lines of getting to meet people rather than specific agenda items. Please could people send any agenda items that they would have for such a meeting as I am a little reluctant to hold a meeting simply to meet people - this we could do over a glass of Pimms on level 8 balcony (not a bad idea anyway). - I do not know what involvement any other groups have with grid Computing (in HEP we are highly involved) but the EU is going to fund a collection of bodies to support different user communities on the Grid. I am currently sitting in a meeting in Orsay where these different support communities (called SSCs) are being discussed. Several of these involve communities that I think would be interesting to people in the Physics Department. The agenda and the presentations can be found at http://indico.cern.ch/conferenceDisplay.py?confId=60563 If anybody has any interest either in being part of these support structures or perhaps being a customer of them (e.g. by porting the applications to the Grid) then I suggest that you contact the people giving the presentations. It may well be worth ccing me on the email as I know the grid community well and may be able to help. Also if people want to know more about Grid computing I would be happy to either talk to people individually or even give a brief presentation on it. - Apparently, we shared 5 floating licenses for the Intel compiler which expired in May before this list was set up. Has this effected your group? If so did you contribute to the license renewal? Are there any other packages for which people believe it would be useful buy floating licences. - I had one report of somebody being unable to post to this list. If you have such a problem please mail me directly so that I can trace the problem (but please make the subject line very obvious so that I don't miss it). All the best, david

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Test
by David Colling 23 Jun '09

23 Jun '09

Dear All, I have had a couple of complaints that people have found it hard to post to this list and so I have subscribed my gmail account to see if I have any problems from this account. So please ignore this message. All the best, david

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Subscribed to list
by David Colling 05 Jun '09

05 Jun '09

Hi All, It appear that welcome message to the physics-departmental-computing was completely anonymous. So this is just to let you know that I subscribed you and so it is to me that you should write if you want to be unsubscribed or think that that somebody else should also be subscribed. All the best, david

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by David Colling 30 May '09

30 May '09

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