VirtualRDC News @ Cornell

We are working on straightening out the licensing situation for the ia64 nodes. In the meantime, a temporary license has been applied, and will tidy us over until we get the 2009/2010 license fully implemented.

Kate is a editor that is installed on most (KDE-based) Linux desktop environments (including our own login nodes at the VirtualRDC). Ian S. has kindly provided us with a syntax-highlighting file for SAS programs. It can be downloaded and installed from http://www.vrdc.cornell.edu/extras/RPMS/noarch/sas-kate-syntax-1.0-0.noarch.rpm, although we might move it to our openSUSE BuildService at a later stage (to support other architectures). We actively use this file on our SUSE-based systems, including (soon) on NSF01.

SAS licenses have been updated on the x86_64 nodes. As happens almost every year, the ia64 nodes have some problems. We hope to have a new license file by Wednesday.

At the request of some users, we have upgraded OpenOffice on the login node to the latest stable version from the repositories.

Apart from the standard subversion command line clients (installed on all VirtualRDC nodes), the main login node VRDC6402 also sports two graphical interfaces:

• KDESVN – this is integrated into the native Konqueror browser. You can view any versioned folder in a SVN-view, and perform SVN operations using Konqueror menus (top and right-click).
• SmartSVN – this is a free (but not open-source) Java-based SVN client that also runs on Windows and Mac OS X. You can call it from the start menu.

Let us know if you find this useful, or if you run into any problems.

SAS 9.2 has been installed, and testing showed no issues. It has now been made the default installation. When the current SAS 9.1.3 license expires, only SAS 9.2 will be available. [More »]

We are going to put VRDC6401 into build-mode soon (within the next two weeks). [More »]

We’ve installed GRASS, QGIS, and the relevant R interface spgrass6 as well as related packages, [More »]

All installed R packages have been updated to the latest version as of 2009-03-20.

We’ve updated R packages on the x86_64 nodes, and installed JAGS. [More »]