This is the July 2002 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 e-mail to res-consult@virginia.edu, or at the Research Computing Support Center, (RCSC) 244 Wilson Hall, 243-8800. The RCSC is open 9 AM to 5 PM, Monday through Friday.
The RCSC will be closed on Thursday, July 4th for the U.Va. holiday and honor
of Independence Day and on Friday, July 5th. The RCSC will resume normal hours
on Monday, July 8 at 9:00 AM. For other ITC services schedule over this time
period, please see:
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/pubs/alerts/downtimes/itc-holiday.html
The SAS "OnLineDoc", which is all SAS documentation, has been restricted to network addresses within the ".virginia.edu" domain only. SAS Institute requested it be moved from unrestricted to restricted access in order to comply with our software license terms and conditions. We are still working with them to determine acceptable access. If you need to use SAS OnLine documentation from off-grounds, please stop by and pick up the SAS OnLineDoc CD. It has all the same information as the website and can be read and accessed from the CD. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause and are working to make it available off-grounds to U.Va. SAS users.
Maple 8 is now available from the Research Computing Support Center for faculty,
staff and graduate students employed as teaching or research assistants. To
learn about Maple 8 at U.Va. go to
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/maple.html
ArcView 8.2 CD's are available at the Research Computing Support Center. ArcView 8.2 offers the following key enhancements and data updates.
At version 6, ArcPad extends global positioning system (GPS) support, includes enhancements to key functions
such as editing, query, navigation, and map display, and supports internationalization and localization. ArcPad 6.0
supports Windows CE 2.11, 2.12, 3.0 and Pocket PC 2002. It also runs on Windows 95/98/NT/2000 and XP platforms.
Also available is the ArcPad Application Builder which includes the desktop customization application ArcPad Studio.
With ArcPad Studio users can create new toolbars that contain built-in and custom tools; design custom forms to streamline
data collection in the field; build applets for specific purposes; and write scripts that interact with ArcPad's internal
objects.
ArcPad and the ArcPad Application Builder can be downloaded from the licensing database at
https://www.web.virginia.edu/rescomp/ldb/login.asp
Amber 7 is now available for AIX, Solaris, IRIX and Intel Linux. The distribution
includes PDF versions of the manual available at /common/amber7/docs. For usage
information, see /common/amber7/README.uva.
Amber 7 continues to include a parallel (MPI) version of sander. The parallel
version of gibbs (dropped in Amber 6) has returned, and a parallel version of
roar is included as well. Parallel versions of these programs will be installed
on request.
FEMLAB is a modeling and simulation software for scientific and engineering problems based on partial differential equations. It runs on top of MATLAB and allows collaboration between FEMLAB models and the MATLAB toolboxes (such as Simulink), while FEMLAB code can also be directly manipulated from this environment.
Detailed information about FEMLAB can be found on the website http://www.femlab.com. FEMLAB has a suite of solvers that are able to solve arbitrarily specified systems of nonlinear PDEs, which can also be freely coupled to other systems. Besides it's use in solving general multiphysics problems, FEMLAB provides specialized modules in the following applications areas: Chemical Engineering and transport phenomena Electromagnetics Structural Mechanics.
FEMLAB is now available on CDs for trial installations on the Windows, Macintosh
and Unix/Linux platforms from the ITC Research Computing Support Center (RCSC)
in Wilson Hall 244. Researchers interested in testing out the capabilities of
this software can checkout a CD and installation instructions from the RCSC
and then obtain a 30-day trial license by contacting Brett Handerson, the FEMLAB
sales coordinator, at 781-273-3322.
Note that MATLAB (which the RCSC distributes) must be installed or mounted to
the machine on which FEMLAB is to be installed. Information on MATLAB can be
found on the website http://www.itc.Virginia.EDU/research/matlab.html.
Beginning June 17th, ITC will begin upgrading its SGI computers to IRIX 6.5.16.
Initially, the first machines to get upgraded will be the three Origin 200s
(o200-1.sp2.Virginia.EDU, o200-2.sp2.Virginia.EDU and o200-3.sp2.Virginia.EDU).
Currently, we plan on upgrading one machine per day; however, if time permits,
we will try and do more than one machine per day.
During the upgrade the machine will not be available and any running jobs
will be terminated at that time. After the upgrade of the Origin 200s is
complete, ITC will upgrade the ten SGI O2 computers (sgi-1 to sgi-10) in the
Albert H. Small Computer lab. The tentative schedule for this upgrade is the
week of June 24th. These will also be done one at a time and will not be available
during the upgrade process. Any jobs running prior to the upgrade will be terminated.
ITC UNIX Systems Group