This is the December, 2000 newsletter of the ITC Research Computing Support Group. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the information presented here please contact the ITC Research Computing Support Group via email to res-consult@virginia.edu, or at the Research Computing Support Center, 244 Wilson Hall, 243-8800. The Research Computing Support Center is open 9AM-5PM, Monday through Friday.
The Research Computing Support Center will be closed for the Christmas and
New Year's Holidays. The Center will close on Thursday, December 21 at 5PM and
re-open on Tuesday, January 2nd at 9 AM.
The University is closed during this
period, except for Wednesday and Thursday, Dec. 27 and 28. However the Center
will be closed these two days as well.
If you need assistance or software that is distributed from the Center on December 27 or 28, please e-mail: res-consult@virginia.edu We will respond that day, and if need be, make arrangements to meet you at the Center.
Happy Holidays from the Research Computing Support Group
On December 19, ITC will be moving the S-Plus license manager to a new server. This change will necessitate that users with a network version of S-Plus change the environment variable that provides the location of the license manager to your local machine. If you are unsure whether you are using the network version of S-Plus, open S-Plus, click on Help -- About S-Plus. In the bottom left-hand corner of the dialog box, you should see a line titled "Rev Date." If this line ends with the words, "License Managed", you are using the network version. To change the environment variable, follow the steps below depending on your operating system.
For Windows 95/98 machines, you will need to open your AUTOEXEC.BAT file (using a text editor like NotePad) and add the following line:
SET S_ELMHOST=128.143.22.60
Now, reboot your system.
For Windows NT or Windows 2000 machines, you can modify your environment variables by clicking on Start -- Settings -- Control Panel and double click on the System applet.
For NT 4, select the Environment tab. At the bottom of the window, you will see a Variable and a Value box. Type "S_ELMHOST" in the Variable box and "128.143.22.60" in the Value box. Click "Apply" and then "OK".
For Windows 2000 users, you should see an Advanced tab with an Environment Variables button. Click on it. Under either User or System Variables, click on New. For Variable Name, type "S_ELMHOST" (without the quotes) and for Variable Value, type "128.143.22.60". Click OK, then click Apply back in the main Environment Variables box, and OK until you exit out of the applet.
During the move of the server, the S-Plus license manager will be down from 3:00 to 7:00 PM on December 19.
The Research Computing Support Group would like to determine user interest in the following SAS software products: SAS/IntrNet, SAS/Warehouse Administrator, Enterprise Miner, SAS/MDDB, AppDev Studio, Scalable Performance Data Server, SAS/Secure, IT Service Vision, Enterprise Reporter, Enterprise Guide, SAS/Access to R3, Integration Technologies.
Please send e-mail to res-consult@virginia.edu if you might be interested in using these products. Also, if you have a strong anticipated need for these products, let us know if your department or organization might be able to share the licensing costs.
SAS is continually refining the current releases of its software. These
refinements result in "hot fixes" that solve known bugs with the software.
To download the latest hot fixes for SAS 8.1, visit the following URL:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/v81fp.html
Current fixes address issues with Base Software Procedures PROC MEANS,
and PROC REPORT, as well as other procedures.
The University of Virginia's Computer Science Department and Applied MetaComputing have announced the first Legion workshop of 2001.
Workshop: Understanding, Using & Administering Legion
Date: January 15-16, 2001
The January workshop will include introductory information and instruction on starting a system, running applications, and advanced system administration. This workshop is intended for all levels of users and will include information on customizing and troubleshooting systems. Experience with Unix is required. Sessions will be hands-on thus providing practical instruction. Legacy applications will be adapted and run in Legion during the workshop. Attendants are invited to bring their own applications to run within a Legion environment.
For more detailed information about the workshop visit
http://www.appliedmeta.com/press/workshops.html
To register now, visit
http://www.appliedmeta.com/press/workshopform.html to access the
registration information page and online form.
Registration by December 31st is necessary to guarantee a
seat for the January 15-16 training session.
National Instruments, the maker of the virtual instrumentation software LabVIEW, has offered to hold a free one half or full-day hands-on seminar for using LabVIEW 6.0 at the University on either Jan. 10 or 12. A description of the seminar can be found on the Web page, http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/labview_seminar.html
If you are interested in attending this seminar, please e-mail
res-consult@virginia.edu
as soon as possible stating the date(s) for which you are available.
There need to be at least 8 participants to hold the event and space is
limited to 16.
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