July 2015 ~ Techmint Blog

System Admin Day

Happy 16th System Administrator Appreciation Day - 31st July 2015 Who is Sysadmin? A sysadmin is a professional, who plans, worries, hacks...

UPDATE: ecce stops monitoring the job after 10-20 seconds. The job continues fine though. Working on fixing the monitoring issue. This messa...

Two issues: * Sun GridEngine (now Oracle GridEngine) is missing from Debian Jessie. I need a queue manager for my cluster. For now the wheez...

Three posts showing slightly different ways of building SIESTA on debian may seem a bit excessive, but I figured I'd do a post on a sim...

It's pretty similar to what I described in http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2015/07/614-siesta-with-mpi-on-debian-jessie.html , with the ...

One of my students might be using SIESTA for some simulations, and a first step towards that is to set it up on my cluster. This isn't a...

I originally installed the OS on my desktop back 2010 (Lenny) and haven't treated it very nicely (mixed releases, repos and have in gene...