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Installing OpenFOAM 1.5 on a 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster running CentOS 5 Linux

OpenFOAM (Open Field Operationa and Manipulation) is a computational fluid dynamics toolbox which simulates "anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics, electromagnetics and the pricing of financial options." All this and free and open source as well.

Annoying older Mailman bug with certain MIME types.

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet standard that extends the format of e-mail to support various extended formats. However with older versions of Mailman there is a serious bug which affects the archives.

MIME allows the following:

  • Text in character sets other than ASCII
  • Non-text attachments
  • Message bodies with multiple parts
  • Header information in non-ASCII character sets
  • etc.,

Bahasa Indonesian Lesson Five

Immigration

Like most other places in the world, when entering a country you will need to notify immigration of why you are visiting, how long for and where you are staying. Keep an eye out for signs like "Bea Cukai" (Customs), "Permeriksaan Paspor" (Passport Control)

"Permisi, Saya mau melihat Bapak/Ibu-mu paspor" (Excuse me, I want to see your passport)
"Kami di sini untuk berlibur/urusan bisnis" (We are here on holiday/on business)
"Kami di sini selama empat belas hari" (We are here for forteen days)

Installing Velvet 0.7.31 on a 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster running CentOS 5 Linux

From their website; "Velvet is a de novo genomic assembler specially designed for short read sequencing technologies, such as Solexa or 454, developed by Daniel Zerbino and Ewan Birney at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), near Cambridge, in the United Kingdom."

Installing NAMD 2.7b1 with CUDA on a 64-bit AMD Opteron Cluster running CentOS 5 Linux

NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code for large biomolecular systems. Version 2.7b1 has some advantages over 2.6 and an extensive user's guide. CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing architecture developed by NVIDIA providing a computing engine in NVIDIA graphics processing units or GPUs. It should make NAMD awesome, if it works.

Dreadmwidth/Livejournal Collaboration for ARCS

Dreadmwidth/Livejournal Collaboration for ARCS v0.1, May 11, 2009

1. What is this?

A proposal to use the free and open source technologies used by Livejournal (livejournal.com) and further developed by Dreamwidth (dreamwidth.org) to create an effective social collaboration and journaling site for Australian researchers.

2. Background

The Access Grid FAQ v0.2

The Access Grid FAQ v0.2, May 11, 2009

Contents

1.0 Administrivia
1.1 Where can I find an up-to-date copy of this FAQ?
1.2 Who wrote this FAQ?

2.0 About Access Grid
2.1 What is The Access Grid?
2.2 Where is it used and by how many people?

3.0 Setting Up Hardware and Software
3.1 What software is required?
3.2 What hardware is required?

4.0 Basic Operations
4.1 How do I manage the Venue Client?
4.2 How do I join A Venue?
4.3 How do I enable sound?
4.4 How do I enable video?
4.5 What is multicast/unicast? How do I change between multicast and unicast?

Underworld on a 64 bit Opteron Fedora Core 5 Cluster

Underworld is a "3D-parallel geodynamic modelling framework capable of deriving viscous / viscoplastic thermal, chemical and thermochemical models consistent with tectonic processes, such as mantle convection and lithospheric deformation over long time scales.... Underworld utilises a Lagrangian particle-in-cell finite element scheme (the prototype of which is the Ellipsis code), and is visualised using gLucifer."

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