March 2012 ~ Techmint Blog

115. Very Simple Python Queue Manager

I suppose we can call it the VSPQM, which sounds a bit like a Roman initialism, akin to SPQR. I've spent the past few days trying to get...

I still haven't managed to compile a working versin of Nwchem 6.1 on Debian 64 bit regardless of whether I'm using mpich or openmpi....

EDIT: This post is getting messier as I'm hammering things out...but I've gotten everything to work in the end, so please persist. ...

Compiling a kernel on debian is easy. Kernel 3.3 came out today, and here's how to build it for debian testing: sudo apt-get install ker...

If you're using nwchem chances are that you've considered using ECCE to parse the output: http://ecce.emsl.pnl.gov/ First of all you...

A new version of gnuplot doesn't happen very often, and this one has an interesting added feature in terms of support for using braces i...

The build is fairly straightforward and pretty much identical to building 10.0.2 (earlybird): http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/02/debia...

Edit 04/04/2012: there were several errors and omissions. These have been fixed now. Because I don't want to mess up a cluster which is ...

This is going to be a short post. The problem: If I have three nodes on a cluster, each with htop installed, how do I set up gnu screen so t...

There are a number of performance monitor tools in the debian repos. ROCKS 5.4.3/Centos doesn't seem quite as well-equipped. First out, ...