ARSC HPC Users' Newsletter 341, May 26, 2006

 

ARSC Summer Tours start June 7th

ARSC conducts public tours in our Discovery Lab every summer. This is a great introduction to the center. No reservations required, but if you've got a large group, please contact "info@arsc.edu" first:

ARSC Summer Tours, 2006:

  • June 7-August 30: Wednesdays, 1 p.m.

For more info and directions to the D-Lab, see:

http://www.arsc.edu/news/summer_tours.html

 

Seminar Series: ARSC Postdoctoral Fellows

Please join for seminars conducted by ARSC's Postdoctoral Fellows. These events are scheduled for the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, May through August, 1 - 2pm in the ARSC Conference Room, WRRB 010. (You can still take your ARSC tour on the 2nd or 4th Wednesday!) 


  May 17:     John Chappelow, "Atmospheres and Impact: Mars"
  June 7:     Jessica Cherry, "Arctic Hydroclimatology"
  June 21:    TBA
  July 5:     Martin King, "Ocean Internal Wave Generation by Tidal 
              Forcings"
  July 19:    Peter Webley, "Ash Dispersion Modeling of North Pacific 
              Volcanoes"
  August 2:   John Bailey, TBA
  August 16:  Daniel Pringle, "Towards Lattice Boltzmann modeling of 
              Fluid Flow in Sea Ice"

See:

http://www.arsc.edu/science/postdocseminars2006.html

 

Quick-Tip Q & A 



A:[[ What development environments do you use to write
  [[ C/C++/FORTRAN/<other> code, and how do you manage your (possibly
  [[ many) source code files.  What editors and other tools do you 
  [[ use?


#
# From Kate Hedstrom:
# 

I've described how I use make on all our files in prior issues. We've
gone to a multidirectory structure after many years of having all the
files in one directory. We use cpp and Perl too. There are two Perl
scripts, one to build f90 dependences, one to optionally clean up after
cpp, removing blank lines, etc.

I use vi - and haven't yet learned the fine points of vim, the vi on
Linux. Instead I learned nvi details some years back that don't carry
over to vim (though vim's colors are fun).

I used to use RCS to manage versions, then migrated to CVS, now I'm
learning SVN (Subversion). I'm determined to finally learn to let it
help me manage merging versions as I make changes in parallel with other
people's changes.


#
# Lee Higbie
#

I use SlickEdit, also, or formerly, called "Visual SlickEdit."  It
provides all the features of a good, language and syntax sensitive
editor that you'd expect plus such things as:

  1- Color coding & highlighting on screen and on listings

  2- Syntax tables for about 60 languages including Fortran.  (I
    have not used it extensively for Fortran, but I've only seen support
    for Fortran 77.)  It would not be difficult to modify the tables for
    Fortran 95.

  3- Multi-file search and replace in a variety of modes, all with
    syntax sensitivity

  4- Side-by-side file comparison/differencing/merging

  5- Syntax expansion and user-supplied syntax expansion.  This
    extends to user-created functions/methods where it prompts for such
    things as types of arguments.

  6- Compilation within the editor and jumping directly to the
    site of the next compiler-detected error. This extends to running
    and debugging from within SlickEdit. (But what I really need is
    jumping to the next undetected error.)

  7- Jump from the current symbol to its definition and back (one
    keystroke each).




Q: Is there a way I can reference my shell aliases from scripts?  Here's
  a ksh example of the problem:

    $ cat t2.ksh
      #!/bin/ksh
      ls -l *.ksh
    $ 
    $ ./t2.ksh  
    -rwx------    1 monty    grp           20 May 26 16:08 t.ksh
    -rwx------    1 monty    grp           23 May 26 16:08 t2.ksh
    $ 
    $ alias ll
    ll='ls -l'
    $ 
    $ cat t.ksh
      #!/bin/ksh
      ll *.ksh
    $ 
    $ ./t.ksh
    ./t.ksh[2]: ll:  not found
    $

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Ed Kornkven ARSC HPC Specialist ph: 907-450-8669
Kate Hedstrom ARSC Oceanographic Specialist ph: 907-450-8678
Arctic Region Supercomputing Center
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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