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James,<br>
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Here are some of the packages that we would like to see on board in
addition to the ones you mentioned:<br>
<blockquote>Mathcad<br>
TeX and LaTeX (no license but some work to put it in and maintain it)<br>
DB2 (should be available at no charge through the IBM Scholars program)<br>
Oracle 9i (also probably available to MIT free)<br>
MetaMorph image analysis software<br>
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The Mathcad and TeX are important to us because they support MathML,
the new standard for expressing equations that is independent of the
application. MatLab more or less also supports MathML. We have a
major program to go directly from a readable written document to a
computational program using MathML. The DB2 and Oracle are to save
large data sets (including microscopy data) so we can route them to
analysis programs covered by the MathML environment.<br>
All this may be very useful to some of the other users like Peter So
and your group.<br>
<br>
The MetaMorph software is an expensive package but one of the few that
do a really good job at image deconvolution. We will be feeding large
image sets to the p655 cluster for analysis, and the deconvolution is
the first step. It would be hard to duplicate that work in a finite
amount of time. If you know of any alternative high-performance
deconvolution packages, please let me know.<br>
<br>
In terms of interactive capabilities, we do indeed want to work toward
being able to interact with the computations in "relevant" time.
Cryptic batch-mode procedures are not the next generation, even for
grids. It may take a separate application program to interact with the
Load Leveler layer, but something is desperately needed. The current
system is too off-putting for anyone who wants to use some software on
the cluster but does not want to do it full time.<br>
<br>
Thanks for your efforts,<br>
Forbes<br>
James Evans wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Hi
We are in the process of adding new software licenses to the p655 cluster.
To start with, we plan on adding 32 base licenses for MatLab and the
Optimization toolbox. Could you reply to me with your needs in terms of the
various MatLab toolboxes (i.e. type and approximate number used per
session)?
We are also exploring use of NAMD, MatLab*P and Huygens2.
Also, let me know if there are other software packages that you would like
to try out.
Does anyone need interactive sessions while using their software?
Cheers
James
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