Accomplishments in September 2009:

New applications:

none

New licenses:

none

Software updates:

  • updated Eclipse to release 3.5.1
  • updated Open Office to 3.1.1
  • updated Matlab Mastery tutorials to 2.1.1-A

Questions/requests/bug reports:

case 101845: chlepore requesting Cernlib libraries for Solaris
case 1016063: crt24365 reporting student Matlab license error
case 1019632: drv asking to use eagle on Athena with personal license
case 1021041: pitacm reporting Tecplot won't run... disk full?
case 1016896: told VSLS that additional Toolboxes can't be installed
on Athena Matlab (re user request)
Email from macneal: math soft vendor support statements for Snow Leopard
Email from dsheehan (for Romero Flores): when will ArcView leave Athena?
Email from jdreed: availability of Intel FORTRAN compiler needed for
FORTRAN IMSL numeric libraries? Not installed for licensing reasons
Email from finney: JMP lic key update instr for vgifford (already sent)
Email to bugs: realplay broken on debathena (since fixed)
Email from nloomis: gaoh87 reports meep won't work on dialups
Email from rachel (via jmhunt), smallen: what happened to Thermocalc?
call from kaduk: Voorhis Lab banned from using Gaussian
zwrite fron cfox: xstata fails on dialups (knwn cause, fixd by zacheiss)

Project status:

Student Matlab: R2009a now available on download site. Identified
license restriction disallowing use from out of the country- informed
paheff, jdreed.

WRW: finished phase 1 WRW update, went live with it, updated new Ubuntu
TSM backup pages linked to from it to new IS&T look-and-feel.

Mac OpenAFS software delivery: went over this in detail and demoed it
with jrcain, ready for next steps when he is.

General:

  • updating Athena Matlab to 7.9, reported minor Symbolic Toolbox bug to
    vendor
  • addressed debathena upgrade support issues raised by fletch1@eecs to
    jrcain. Offered to assist, waiting...
  • fixed Gaussian debathena breakage (rndmized stack) with help from amb
  • fixed sapgui debathena breakage by copying in old libstdc++ version
  • worked with paheff on Keyserver quotation, held conf call with vendor
  • reviewed new ESRI license draft with paheff, met with him and dsheehan
    to discuss terms
  • worked with jrcain to try to get video capture app previously used on
    older Ubuntu release working on current debathena. So far no luck...
  • wrote add-remove list for debathena-thirdparty updates; addressed
    package issues reported by geofft
  • prepared quarterly goals for FSX meeeting, brainstormed new team ones
  • drafted "Athena the WHAT", "software services the WHAT" for CSS report

Problems:

Student Matlab denial of service issue with grad student running
hundreds of copies concurrently; found him in person, explained this is
not acceptable, added additional allowed usage terms for download site
"click to accept" button to cover this.

Investigating html authoring support for minor WRW table cell alignment,
broken local search box issues with jlreed.

Ongoing hung license issues on Tecplot license server. Monitoring...

Problems with MOZ_PLUGIN_PATH not working to set firefox plugin
locations- seems to be a firefox bug.

Meetings/presentations/outages:

9/1/09 meeting with Oliver
9/4/09 CRiB talk: Amazon EC2 supercomputing
9/8/09 release-team
9/10/09 meeting with paheff re ESRI license redo, conf call with
Sassafras
9/17/09 meeting with paheff re ESRI license redo
9/17/09 presentation of institute planning task force ideas
9/21/09 Mac Partners
9/24/09 meeting with jrcain re OpenAFS software delivery on Macs
9/25/09 release-team
9/29/09 meeting wit Oliver
9/30/09 ACCORD
9/30/09 State of the Institute

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Total launches of monitored software: 8,740 (low: ooffice undercount)

Total number of applications supported: 154

Top 6 monitored application launch counts:

Open Office/Star Office: 3,309 (low: unmonitored on debathena)
Matlab (Athena): 2,668
Mathematica: 1,163
Java: 909
Stata: 565
Tecplot: 374

Student Matlab launches: 45,643

Goals for October:

  • WRW glitch resolution
  • Finish Matlab 7.9 installation
  • Athena software distribution pages for selected "top 25" Athena apps
  • update WRW to reflect latest debathena-thirdparty package changes
  • set up server for Keyserving project
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