20-December-2013 - TotalView
The Computing Division is currently paying $2.5K for software maintenance and support for the TotalView product. The license allows 256 concurrent users, however, according to our logs, we are using much less than that number. We would like to understand the demand for TotalView by our community so that we can explore options, such as decreasing our license count.
Please let us know how critical this software is for your research, how often you use it, and what the impact would be if it were not available.
In January 2014, we will contact current TotalView users to gather information for planning and budgeting purposes.
19-December-2013
After the first Town Hall for Unix Services, we have created a mailing list to increase communications between the Unix Community and SCS.
Please subscribe to this list to stay up to date on the current unix-related activities.
The list is unix-community@slac.stanford.edu
You can subscribe on this web page: https://listserv.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=UNIX-COMMUNITY&A=1
or via email to: listserv@slac.stanford.edu with subscribe request in body as follows: subscribe unix-community
$ echo subscribe unix-community | mail listserv@slac.stanford.edu
19-December-2013
RHEL 7
A dedicated page for RHEL7 news and updates has been created.
https://confluence.slac.stanford.edu/display/SCSPub/RHEL+7
5-December-2013
GNU Fortran 4.8.1 is now installed on the bullet cluster and the RHEL6-64 norics.
Usage:
$ scl enable devtoolset-2 'gfortran ...'
or
$ scl enable devtoolset-2 'bash'
$ gfortran ...
26-November-2013
Red Hat Enterprise 5 and 6 reboots will be required to enable the latest security-patched kernel.
Details to follow...
21-November-2013
RHEL 6.5 released
https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.5_Release_Notes/index.html
20-November-2013
Red Hat offers two relatively new products which may be of interest to the SLAC community:
Software Collections: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rhscl1-ga/
Developer Toolset: http://developerblog.redhat.com/2013/09/12/rh-dts2-ga/
Please send email to unix-admin@slac.stanford.edu if you are interested in using these.