This is the May 2003 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.
ESRI has released ArcView 8.3 and ArcInfo 8.3, and CDs for these products are now available for eligible users at the Research Computing Support Center in Wilson Hall, Room 244.
To review What's New with the 8.3 release of the ArcView and ArcInfo levels along with new ArcGIS extensions, you may visit the website at http://www.esri.com/software/arcgis/arcgis_83.html.
Availability information and installation instructions for ESRI products at U.Va. are online at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/esri/home.html.
While license eligibility remains the same for faculty and staff, student users of ArcView who have current licenses have been sent individual e-mail notification that they must remove ARCVIEW from any personally-owned PCs by May 30, 2003. Due to changes in our licensing agreement with ESRI, we are no longer permitted to distribute ArcView to students for off-Grounds use, and we are required to have all existing installations removed to comply with our site license.
Students remaining at the University who anticipate an ongoing need for ArcView, may obtain the license managed ArcInfo product from the Research Computing Support Center. ArcInfo is an ESRI product that includes all capabilities of ArcView. You can learn more about ArcInfo at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/esri/arcinfo83.html.
The licensing conditions for ArcView and ArcInfo at U.Va. are outlined under Availability at their respective Web pages:
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/esri/arcinfo83.htmlAlso, note that both ArcView and ArcInfo require the Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP operating system.
http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/esri/arcview83.html
Please direct questions on ArcInfo or ArcView by sending e-mail to res-consult@Virginia.EDU or by calling the ITC Research Computing Support Center (RCSC) at 243-8800.
An article entitled "Picking up the Pace with the MATLAB Profiler" appeared in the most recent issue of Matlab News & Notes at www.mathworks.com/company/newsletter/may03/profiler.shtml.
A new feature of Matlab 6.5 is the MATLAB JIT-Accelerator, which can significantly accelerate your code by transforming high-level MATLAB commands into native machine instructions. The article describes how to use the Matlab Profiler to take advantage of the JIT-Accelerator.
A hard copy version of the latest Matlab News & Notes is available for perusal at the Research Computing Support Center in Wilson Hall 244. Questions about optimizing Matlab code performance can be sent to res-consult@virginia.edu.
SAS Institute provides hot fixes to remedy SAS defects or bugs. Most of the fixes address common or critical bugs, but many SAS problems that are less widespread or less critical are now actively addressed by means of the hot fix process.
SAS hot fix bundles are an accumulation of related hot fixes that are delivered in one installable unit. These bundles are available by platform.
ITC encourages SAS users to maintain their installations by applying SAS hot fixes. Visit the links at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/sas/ to learn more about the hot fixes as well as the related alerts published by SAS.
As of May 2003, for Version 8.2 of SAS the Base Bundle and the STAT Bundle should be installed at a minimum. On the Windows platform these bundles are self-extracting files and very easy to apply.
You will need to download the two bundles, Base Bundle 82BX05 and STAT Bundle 82SX01.
1. Base Bundle 82BX05:Long-term SAS users please note: The tslevel is not incremented when a bundle is applied. The current release is 8.2 TS2M0 for Windows. Instead of modifying the tslevel, an audit file is installed with every hot fix. This text file contains hot fix specific information such as the hot fix name, product involved, files included in the hot fix, port date, SAS Note numbers and comments. Audit files have the same name as the hot fix (i.e., 82ba01wn.aud) and are installed in a location specific to each host. For example, on Windows systems the audit files are installed in !SASROOT\core\sasinst\hotfix.
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/82_win_sbcs_base_intbundle.html2. STAT Bundle: 82SX01:
http://ftp.sas.com/techsup/download/hotfix/v82sx.html
The University has a site license for S-Plus that permits installation of S-Plus on U.Va.-owned computers on-Grounds for faculty and staff. Students can get a copy of S-Plus for free for installation on their home computer. The software is available through the Research Computing Support Center (see more at http://www.itc.virginia.edu/research/splus/).
For faculty and staff members interested in purchasing a single user license of S-Plus for home Linux, UNIX or Windows systems before June 13, 2003, Insightful Corporation will include a free module (a $120 value) with your regularly-priced faculty order.
During this special promotion for academics, you can choose your free module from Spatial Statistics, FinMetrics, Arcview, Environmental Statistics or Wavelets. To find out more information, visit the website at http://www.insightful.com/products/addons.asp
This offer is only good for customers within the United States and Canada.
If you would like a formal quote from Insightful, please either call or e-mail Michelle Bula, 800-569-0123 x274, mbula@insightful.com.
Aptech Systems, publisher of the powerful statistics package GAUSS, is in the process of deciding whether they will create a port of this important application for Mac OS X. If you would like to see this application available for Mac OS X, please send encouragement and positive feedback to info@aptech.com. For more information on GAUSS and Aptech, please visit the website at http://www.aptech.com/.
Users of Maple 8 on Linux who try to start Maple under Redhat 9 may see messages similar to these:
> /usr/local/maple/bin.IBM_INTEL_LINUX/mserver: relocation error:These problems will be observed with glibc versions 2.3.1-x and higher.
> /usr/local/maple/bin.IBM_INTEL_LINUX/libmaple.so: symbol errno,
> version GLIBC_2.0 not defined in file libc.so.6 with link time
> reference
Solution
The solution is to use one of the following commands to run maple or
xmaple:
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1 maple
Equivalently, in bash users may try:
export LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1; maple
In tcsh this works:
setenv LD_ASSUME_KERNEL 2.4.1; maple
The environment variable LD_ASSUME_KERNEL may be set in the script resource file if desired.
If you continue to get error messages or have other questions or problems, please contact Research Computing Support via e-mail at res-consult@virginia.edu or by phone at 243-8800.
Waterloo Maple continues to conduct free Web demonstrations of Maple T.A., their upcoming product for creating online Maple-graded exams and assignments. All you need to participate is a Web browser and a telephone. Seminars on Maplets Programming and Maple in Mathematics Education will also be hosted throughout the spring.
To view the current schedule and to register for a session, visit the
website at https://maplesoft.webex.com/.
All you require is a Web browser,
an Internet connection, and a telephone to participate. Visit often to see
if new training sessions have been added to our schedule. If you are new
to Web seminars and would rather attend a session conducted by Research
Computing, please contact us. The schedule is as follows:
May 22 - Intro to MapleNet [1:00-1:45 PM EST]
May 23 - Intro to MapleNet [1:00-1:45 PM EST]
June 5 - Maplets Programming [1:00-1:45 PM EST]
June 6 - Maplets Programming [1:00-1:45 PM EST]
June 19 - Learning Objects for Linear Algebra and Calculus [1:00-1:45 PM EST]
June 20 - Learning Objects for Linear Algebra and Calculus [1:00-1:45 PM EST]
Maplesoft has decided to cancel the Maple Summer Workshop (MSW 2003) originally scheduled for July 13-15 of this year. The Maple Summer Workshop is an annual international meeting that brings together members of the Maple community to share techniques and innovative uses of Maple in education, research, and industry.
For more detailed information visit http://www.maplesoft.com/msw/.
The registration deadline for the early-bird rate for the Structural Equation Modeling with LISREL 8.5 workshop to be offered May 21-23, 2003, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center workshop has been extended. Contact SSI at 1-800-247-6113 to reserve your seat. Presenters are Karl Joreskog and Gerhard Mels; for more details, see the website at http://www.ssicentral.com/workshop/lisrel.htm
National Instruments introduces the NI Educational Laboratory Virtual Instrumentation Suite (NI ELVIS), a LabVIEW-based design and prototyping environment for university engineering and science laboratories. Discover how students using NI ELVIS can simultaneously learn and practice engineering theory in areas such as electronics design, signal processing, communications, control systems, mechatronics, and instrumentation. To learn more about this exciting new product, we invite you to participate in a live Web event:
Deliver an Enriched Science and Engineering Education with NI ELVIS
Date: May 15, 2003
Times: 8:00 a.m. or 3:00 p.m. (Central)
Duration: 45 minutes
Register now online at http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/express?openagent&code=ex5nbi.
NI ELVIS consists of LabVIEW-based virtual instruments, a multifunction data acquisition device and a custom-designed benchtop workstation and prototyping board. Join us and learn about the key features of NI ELVIS:
Download the NI ELVIS data sheet for product specifications from the website at http://digital.ni.com/express.nsf/express?openagent&code=ex9y2a.
If you have any questions, or would like to talk with a sales engineer, please call (866) 463-3364.
Abstracts requested by: May 30, 2003
Conference: October 8, 2003, The Inn and Conference Center, University
of Maryland, College Park, Maryland
Mallett Technology is proud to continue the tradition of organizing the ANSYS Users' Conference for the Mid-Atlantic region. The goal of the conference is to provide a forum for an open exchange of finite element modeling ideas with an emphasis on the areas of best practices, challenging and innovative uses of the ANSYS program and techniques used to improve the productivity of an analyst.
Mallett Technology invites all ANSYS users to submit papers for presentation at the conference. Any area of application of the ANSYS program would be appropriate. The various applications will be grouped in presentations sessions based on the disciplines involved.
Authors are requested to submit abstracts by May 30, 2003 to Mr. David J. Power. Abstracts should clearly state the author's purpose, results, and conclusions in the final paper. Notification of acceptance will be given by June 30, 2003 and final manuscripts of papers are due before August 31, 2003. All papers accepted for presentation will be published on the conference CDROM. Abstracts should be sent electronically as a Word or RTF, or PDF file. For further information regarding conference papers please contact either Dr. Abed M. Khaskia or Mr. David J. Power.
Conference contacts
Mr. David J. Power
Mallett Technology Inc.
4601 Creekstone Drive, Suite 112
Durham, NC 27703
Phone: 919/474-9222 x11
Fax: 919-474-9223
E-mail: dpower@rtp.mallett.com
Dr. Abed M. Khaskia
Mallett Technology Inc.
14900 Sweitzer Lane, Suite 202
Laurel, Maryland 20707, USA
Phone: (301) 725-0060 x 10
Fax: (301) 725-0061
E-mail: akhaskia@wdc.mallett.com
The Third Annual ESRI Education User Conference will be held in San Diego, California, July 6-9, 2003. For details visit the website at http://www.esri.com/events/educ/.
In coordination with the Education User Conference, the ESRI International Users Conference will be held July 7-11, 2003 in San Diego, California. Preconference seminars and special events will take place on Saturday, July 5, and Sunday, July 6, 2003. Detailed information on conference events and registration information is on the Web at http://www.esri.com/events/uc/.
The Ninth ACM SIGKDD
International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining will take place
August 24 - 27, 2003 in Washington, DC KDD is the leading international conference
on knowledge discovery and data mining, and provides a forum for academic researchers
and industry and government practitioners to share their research and experience.
It will feature keynote presentations, oral paper presentations, poster presentations,
workshops, tutorials, and panels, as well as the KDD Cup competition. For conference
details, visit http://www.acm.org/sigkdd/kdd2003/.
The Springer Verlag Computer, Physics and Astronomy sale
for Spring 2003 is now underway at the U.Va. Bookstore.
Over 180 selected titles in computers, physics, astronomy
and related areas of interest are available at substantial
discounts off of the list prices.
Faculty, staff, TA, and departmental discounts apply in
addition to Springer's discounts.
The bookstore will send you a printed version of the
catalog, through U.Va. Messenger Mail, if you e-mail them at
bookshop@virginia.edu.
The sale will run through June 15, 2003.
Questions: call 434-924-1073 or e-mail
bookshop@virginia.edu.
Springer Verlag Computer, Physics, and Astronomy Book Sale
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