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The newsletter of the SIE de Investigación y Enseñanza
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N. 45 - March/April 2013
IDL usage statistics
Astropy installed (and warning on duplicated packages)
Useful Mac OS X commands
Astrometry.net
IRAF 64-bit issues
N. 44 - January/February 2013
SIEminar:
¡Normaliza tu CV y sé feliz!
- Tuesday 05 February, 12.30
Diodo: so long, and thanks for all the number crunching
Condor/LaPalma Hall of Fame
Mac OS X support: update
Distribution to web server with test option
N. 43 - August/September 2012
Python Course
IACTalks is public!
IAC preprints submission easier than ever
Mac OS X support
Condor/Diodo/LaPalma Hall of Fame
N. 42 - March/April 2012
NAG libraries
Shiny new "Formulario de compras"
Useful tools: WeTransfer, Screenleap
Supercomputing Hall of Fame
N. 41 - July/August 2011
Condor/Diodo/LaPalma Hall of Fame
Summer Condor Tips
Moodle no longer supported - please migrate to ULL's Moodle
Migration of websites to the SIE's web server (almost) completed
N. 40 - March/April 2011
Users and computers data base
Update of PmWiki
New Diodo
Migration of Web servers: status report
Website requests now paperless
N. 39 - December 2010/January 2011
Updates to Fedora 12
New Web servers
New printers
Condor/Diodo/LaPalma Hall of Fame
Mathematica through ssh tunnel
Gigabytes and Gibibytes
N. 38 - October/November 2010
SIEminar: Work@Home 2 by Ángel de Vicente on November 3rd, 12:30
Meow! The CAT has a brand new website
Linux: Introduction to the Command Line
Cursor movement technology
N. 37 - June/July 2010
Sage
Chat with us for swift response to computer problems
SSH automatic login (no password prompt)
Condor/Diodo/LaPalma Hall of Fame
N. 36 - May 2010
3D SIEminar! A new 3DTV camera: demonstration and AO applications by José M. Rodríguez Ramos (ULL) on May 5th, 10:30
TeXLive
Mendeley: Academic software for bibliography creation and research paper management
I need a bigger (and bigger, and bigger ...) display
Condor and the usefulness of a homogeneous environment
FITS format gets Pope's blessing
N. 35 - March/April 2010
Summer School in Scientific and High-Performance Computing
Parallel code development in your workstation
Condor to have a facelift in 2010
Software packages migration to 64-bit
VO School at IAC: summary, webcasts and step-by-step tutorials
N. 34 - January/February 2010
SICminar on VPN, 27 January 2010
New year's resolution: I'll do backups, I'll do backups...
Visualization software in parallel, anyone?
Supercomputing hall of fames (second semester 2009)
If you are leaving the IAC don't forget to bring along your e-mails...
Second Practical Course of the Spanish Virtual Observatory - Reminder!
N. 33 - November/December 2009
Screen: the best thing since sliced bread for workers@home
IDL jobs in Condor
Welcome to the IAC Computing Services!
Strange Mathematica quirk
Not all programming languages are born equal
Second Practical Course of the Spanish Virtual Observatory
N. 32 - September/October 2009
New licenses for IDL Advanced Math and Stats
iplot crashing in IDL
pgplot woes: 32 vs 64bit and reminder about 32 vs 64 bit SO and applications
Marta virtualized
N. 31 - July/August 2009
The compiler war!
Helping you to live in a parallel universe...
Programming languages and bottles of beer
Less known, but useful Python gems
Talon, a useful Firefox extension
N. 30 - May/June 2009
Special SIEminar: A website content management system for research projects, Tuesday 16 June, 13:00
Recent software updates
PERL5LIB
Astronomical software for Mac
IRAF startup tip
Three brand new or revamped search engines: Wolfram|Alpha, Bing and Google squared
N. 29 - March/April 2009
SIEminar: Statistical Acrobatics with R, by S. Comeron, on May 6th
"Introduction to Python for Astronomers" course - lessons learned
"Advances in Computational Astrophysics" special issue of CISE Journal
Share your code with the IAC community!
Astronomical Software Wants To Be Free
New burro machine available
N. 28 - February 2009
SIEminar: "The Debugger, a programmer's best friend." - 26 February, 12:00
Supercomputing Hall of Fame
Survey about the Web-based project reports application
Useful tools
OSIRIS SNR Calculator
N. 27 - December 2008 / January 2009
Algorithms and muffins... (a.k.a. programming gym)
Chimera news
Webtools for research projects sites
Software updates
Perl script to check unused references in LaTeX
N. 26 - July/August 2008
SIEminar: "VO tools: An overview on Virtual Observatory tools", Thursday 17 July, 2008
32bit vs 64bit CPUs and computing environments
Supercomputing support
Supercomputing hall of fames
Fedora and yum tips
Short announcements
N. 25 - June 2008
LaPalma Supercomputer to be busy during the 2nd period, 2008
SIE Users Committee
Xerenade and PGI compilers
New B/W and color printers
SIEpedia article on Data Backup
How do we install software?
N. 24 - January/February 2008
Results for our software courses poll
SIE Users Committee
Quick Reference to IAC's Computer Services
SIE Web support suspended
N. 23 - November/December 2007
New additions to the IAC Supercomputing family
SIEminar: "Supercomputing resources at the IAC" - 4 December, 12:30
SIE's software courses/talks poll
LIRISDR and other packages updates
Seminar by the SIC: "Massive Data Storage" (a.k.a. Data Storage, done the right way!) - 11 December, 12:30
N. 22 - October 2007
SIEminar: "GPUs: supercomputing in a desktop PC" - 24 October at 12.30
IRAF is dead ... no, it's still alive and kicking
KDE quirks and solutions
KompoZer, a new Web authoring tool
N. 21 - September 2007
PHP+MySQL Introductory Course, 24-28 September
Web Collaboration and Content Management Systems
Jump on the on-line education bandwagon with Moodle!
Software updates plus change of IDL license servers
Travel tips: 10 ways to jump the queue at check-in
N. 20 - July/August 2007
SIEminar: "
Making Astronomical Databases with VO tools
", by Jorge A Pérez Prieto, Tuesday 24 July 12:30
La Palma Supercomputer (512 CPUs, Myrinet) in production
Conversion of old .imh+.pix iraf files (Solaris) to fits
Software packages upgrades
Keep track of visits to your website using Statcounter
Do you feel overwhelmed by technology?
N. 19 - June 2007
Course on Advanced Programming and Parallel Computing (F90) --
Starting June 11th
Intel Fortran and C/C++ Compilers
Condor moved to virtual (
Xenified
) servers
New software packages
N. 18 - May 2007
SIEminar: "Using the IAC Chimera Cluster", by Ángel de Vicente
SIE's Web goes public!
Websites made in SIE
Tips for not saturating your home and mail quotas
Software packages upgrades
N. 17 - April 2007
SIEminar: "Using Python for Data Analysis", by Jorge A Pérez Prieto, Wednesday 18 April 12:30
Beoiac cluster retiring after 620817.62 hours worked in the last two years!
Bewildering problems with scripts and other files?
New Google tools, and other IT developments
N. 16 - March 2007
SIEminar: "PyRAF: IRAF from a
Pythonian
point of view ", by Ruyman Azzollini
Guidelines about machines and scratch disks for those users leaving the IAC
Server migration
Update of LIRISDR package
Telarchive and Aladin upgraded
N. 15 - February 2007
SIEminar: "Seguridad Criptográfica", by Pino Caballero Gil
Starlink reloaded
STSDAS/TABLES, PyRAF and other software updates
"Particular" mailing list and SIE Forum
Course on Advanced Programming Techniques and Parallel Computing (with Fortran 90)
N. 14 - December 2006 / January 2007
Javier Ganivet's work at the SIE
Code running 117 times faster thanks to our Beowulf cluster!
Treat yourself to an "Elastic Cluster" at Amazon this Christmas
tree and fitscut
Building a Virtual Cluster with Xen (Part Two) published
N. 13 - November 2006
Moodle installed at IAC
Next SIEminar: Introduction to Moodle, November 15th, by Ángel de Vicente
Software updates
"Latest Advances in Computer Science" Seminar
Building a Virtual Cluster with Xen (Part Two) published
Marta reloaded
N. 12 - October 2006
SIEminar: "Web pages made easy (for busy people)", Wednesday 25 October 12.30, by Jorge A Pérez
Chimera, the new 64 bits Beowulf cluster, open in beta
Installation of LIRISDR in IRAF
Hardware purchases
Installing a web server in your computer
N. 11 - September 2006
SIEminar: "Version Control: The Open Source secret", by Maurizio Panniello, on Wednesday September 20 at 12.30 in the Aula
Customizing Perl by adding modules
Angel is a monkey, albeit a distinguished one!
Sunglasses recommended to visit our new shiny and sparkling webpages!
Some Tips about RPM usage
N. 10 - July/August 2006
SIEminar: "The SSH Tunnel of Love", by Angel de Vicente and Carlos Martín Galán, on Wednesday July 12 at 12.30 in the Aula
IRAF Course next week, by Nicola Caon
Writing your PhD Thesis in Spanish and having problems with LaTeX?
Can my Linux PC speak and understand Spanish, or Italian, or German?
IRAF for Windows XP?! (well, yes, if you have Cygwin ...)
N. 9 - June 2006
"How to Reduce InfraRed Data and Not Die in the Attempt", Wednesday 14 June at 12.30, by Jose Acosta
Update of IDL to v6.3
Upgrade of Linux machines to kernel 2.6
Read ApJ, AJ, A&A, MNRAS etc. from home
Would you like to contribute to the SIEpedia?
N. 8 - May 2006
SIEminar: "Feel like at /home by knowing your Environment", by Nicola - 10 May 2006 at 12.30 in the Aula
XHTML/CSS course at the end of May
New SIE fellow
Tips for working from outside the IAC!
N. 7 - April 2006
"How to read and modify a Makefile", Wed Apr 5 at 12.30 in the Aula
SIE's support for project and personal laptops
Latest news on Information Technology
A computer in your USB pendrive...
... and a Beowulf cluster in your computer!
N. 6 - March 2006
"Emacs: editing and beyond", Wednesday 8 March, 12.30, Aula
IAUS241 website
Peter Erwin's python script telarchive
What hardware and operating systems are used to reduce astronomical data?
SMM images gallery
N. 5 - February 2006
Renewal of IDL licences
Withdrawal/reallocation of workstations, and scratch disks
Install SIE's software in your laptop yourself
Users' pictures in the SIE computers database
The International Obfuscated C Code Contest
N. 4 - December 2005 / January 2006
SIE's Christmas shopping
The new Beowulf: entering the 64-bit world
Computer Seminars
Web developments
OpenSSI experimental cluster in the CCA
N. 3 - November 2005
IDL 6.2 and Mathematica 5.2
New Python modules, and other minor software updates
New IAC preprint submission form
Itanium 2 Cluster at the ULL
Do you have a computer or software problem and are going to ask for help?
N. 2 - October 2005
Contribution to ADASS XV: Parallel Applications with Condor
IntelC/C++ compiler and teTeX-3.0
Parallel Computing Workgroup
Power tools for the budding programmer: Makefiles, Version Control, Debugger and Profiler
A quick stroll through the SIE website
N. 1 - September 2005
Courses and talks: Python, Parallel Computing and Condor
New Web server in the CCA
Private wikis and forums: sharing information within your research group
New software installations and updates
100th anniversary of Condor at the IAC!