> First, I am not a physicist - I am a comp sysadmin. Which means, I have > no idea (nor concerns) about what the program does :-) > > Q1: where to install? > We have a "general use" linux box which provides shell access. The vast > majority of folks use it for pine (upwards of 50 simultaneous users). > It does have Xwindows for folks running a Xwin server (such as Xwin). > We also have a student lab with computers running linux (ubuntu w/ > gnome). My main concerns are the resources used on the computer: if it > is CPU/memory instensive, I'd rather not have it on the shared resource > system. > >
Meep is computer simulation software and is _very_ CPU/memory intensive, it will consume every free CPU cycle and demand even more :) Using meep on shared system will slow down everything. > Q2: doing the install? > Looking at http://ab-initio.mit.edu/wiki/index.php/Meep_download > indicates we can do apt-get to install the package, but I assume we need > to point to a repository? > > Meep is in "universe" section of ubuntu repository, you should just enable it. No need for third-party repositories. _______________________________________________ meep-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://ab-initio.mit.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/meep-discuss
