Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running Rocks 5.4.2 (with CentOS 5.5) – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating System was installed. These instructions may…
Disclaimer The instructions/steps/programs given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running site licensed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2, with NVIDIA CUDA SDK 4.1.28, NVIDIA GPU Driver v290.10 & two NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 cards – as has been…
Disclaimer The instructions/steps given below worked for me (and Michigan Technological University) running site licensed Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.2 – as has been a common practice for several years now, a full version of Operating System was installed and…
Why this script? As a systems administrator or as someone who dabbles in compilation technologies, it often becomes necessary to extract one or more variety of compressed files This script will automagically handle the options necessary for uncompressing different kinds…
Why This Script? While in its simplest form of usage, this script will only print out the public (& private) IP address along with the SSID to which the machine is connected to, the results therefrom can be used for…
Users of VASP are often familiar with the struggles/hardships to easily visualize the coordinates from the output file OUTCAR. To that effect, I wrote the following script … with help at a crucial stage from Pat Krogel, Center for Experimental…
What is ROCKS? Rocks Cluster Distribution (originally called NPACI Rocks) is a Linux distribution intended for high-performance computing clusters. It was started by NPACI and the SDSC in 2000, and was initially funded in part by an NSF grant (2000-2007)…
Amongst other things, I like to keep a detailed track of where I have been [especially during hiking in the woods, venturing into areas that I have never been before, etc.]. For this purpose, I have configured my Garmin GPSMap…
Amongst other things, I have the habit of keeping a detailed track of where I have been and for this purpose, I use my Garmin GPSMap 60CSx. I have configured this GPS to save track information every 3 seconds. If…
Amongst other things, I have the habit of geotagging my photographs and for this purpose, I use my Garmin GPSMap 60CSx, an API I wrote to store tracks in MySQL & Geonames data in a MySQL [please refer to this…
Let us consider the following (hypothetical/real) case: we have a fruit basket with an assortment of fruits in it. Over a period of time, let us suppose we accumulate so much fruit [will they not stink? may be – but…
Though the term waypoint has come into fairly common use in recent times, the concept has existed for as long as we have been navigating. Waypoints have traditionally been associated with distinctive features of the physical world – such as…
Though the term waypoint has come into fairly common use in recent times, the concept has existed for as long as we have been navigating. Waypoints have traditionally been associated with distinctive features of the physical world – such as…
Why Strings As Graphics, you ask? There are a myriad of reasons and/or applications where strings need to converted to graphics and one such, probably most commonly seen, application is to put our email address on the web. We want…
I understand there are very many plugins available for WordPress that help keep track of a variety of stats. This one, wp-visitors, is simple and light-weight. Myself and couple friends (Adam & Karen and Tim Obermann) have been using it…