On Sep 19, 2008, at 1:15 PM, Chris Barnes wrote:
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.
It can easily be CPU and memory intensive if someone decides to run a
large simulation, so it's probably better to have it on a compute
cluster (or on people's individual machines).
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?
It's in the current Debian-testing and Ubuntu repositories, I
believe. If you aren't using Debian or Ubuntu, you'll need to install
from source.
Steven
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