Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 14:16:00 +0100 Sender: Alle Benutzer im Bioquant From: "Dr. Marc Hemberger" Subject: IT News @ Bioquant (January/09) Dear colleagues, firstly I would like to wish you happy and hopefully productive New Year. This months newsletter on IT @ Bioquant deals with only one main topic: Software Happy reading ... And, as usual: we are open for discussion on all kinds of questions, wishes, complaints or proposals regarding the IT @ BioQuant. Software Now a bunch a long awaited software packages are installed and available on our central servers. Currently we installed the software only on Linux. Licenses for Windows and MacOS are also available. Mathematica 6.0.2.1 Licenses: 20 Availabilty: appl1 and appl10 SSGD: not yet Path: /usr/local/bin/mathematica or /usr/local/bin/math Maple12 Licenses: 10 Availabilty: appl1 and appl9 SSGD: not yet Path: /usr/local/bin/xmaple or /usr/local/bin/maple Intel Compiler Suite 11.0.074 / Math Kernel Library 10.1.0.015 Licenses: 5 Availabilty: appl1 Path: /opt/intel/Compiler resp. /opt/intel/{c,}mkl Matlab R2008a Licenses: 11 (academic and classroom) Availabilty: appl1 SSGD: for generic student accounts only Path: /usr/local/bin/matlab Software on the Cluster This software is also available on the general purpose Compute Cluster. Nodes that run this software have a property defined (like icc, matlab, math, maple). If you need an example for a submit script for torque please don't hesitate to contact me. A web page with a short description on cluster usage can be found here: http://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de/about_us/organigram/it/it_services/compute_cluster.html. Before you ask: the additional nodes for the cluster will be available end of this month as promised! Matlab R2008a A new version of Matlab is available. The update of our current version R2008a will happen on February 3, 9 am. The update will break all running calculations. If you have objections against the update to the latest release at this time, please contact me asap. Greetings, Marc -- Dr. Marc Hemberger Leiter der EDV / Head of IT Fon: +49 6221/54-51-300 BioQuant / INF 267 marc.hemberger@bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg Fax: +49 6221/54-51-480 69120 Heidelberg http://www.bioquant.uni-heidelberg.de ** Disclaimer: My views/comments/beliefs, as strange as they are, are my own.**