SciComputing

Avogadro: Segmentation fault – solved

That’s my first post to the great Planet,  so “Hello PlanetSuse!!!”. If you are curios and you would like to know more about me, check my website and you will find many interesting things, my work, my research and so on.
I was running Avogadro on my openSUSE 11.1 box, but I have got a “segmentation [...]


Installing Intel Compiler Suite on OpenSUSE 11.1

Here are the basic steps to install Intel C/C++ and Fortran Compilers on OpenSUSE 11.1:
1. download Intel C/C++ and Fortran Compilers from their website. They are free for non-commercial use
2. unpack and start the installer
3. at some point I received:

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Step no: 4 of 7 | Installation configuration – Missing Critical Pre-requisite
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The following required for installation [...]


My USB Memory Stick Companion

I have a Kingston Data Traveler 4 GB USB Drive, and a few days ago I decided to use it also as a rescue boot device (to be bootable in order to recover data when needed), as storage device (to move around some files, used on windows, mac, linux, freebsd), to have on it some [...]


Parallel Programming with MPI in Bristol

I spent the last 4 days in Bristol to attend to “Parallel Programming with MPI” course, provided by HECToR which is the UK’s high-end computing resource, funded by the Research Councils and available for researchers at UK universities, and by NAG – The Numerical Algorithms Group specialized in the provision of software for the solution [...]


Eclipse Updates/Plugins on OpenSUSE 11.1

I have just installed Eclipse on OpenSUSE 11.1 from repository, but after that  I could not install any plugins, the message has been:

Some people suggest that you have to remove the installed version from repo and download the latest version from eclipse website. I didn’t want to do that, so, If you have the same [...]


Using LaTeX in Scribus for posters

I am using LaTeX and beamer class to make presentations and posters. A short introduction to start with latex is available. Sometimes I am using LaTeX just to produce eps/pdf text boxes and after that Scribus for poster layout. In the last development version of Scribus, which is 1.3.5svn, there is possible to use latex [...]


High End Computing and Scientific Visualization at NASA

I found an interesting video. If you have about a hour to spend and if you work in scientific computing, maybe these talks would be useful for you:


Software I am using …

If you would like to see what software I am using on my desktop, laptop, workstation (Windows, Linux, Unix) in order to get my research/scientific work done, or if you want to know what software I am installing on my servers for customers, check this section of my website.


Scientific Software

If you are working in Scientific Computing, like me, then the next links are for you:

Free Software :: Scientific Software
Graphics Software
Numerical Analysis Software
Scientific/Engineering Software @SourceForge.net
Scientific/Engineering Software @Freshmeat.net
Wiki du laboratoire MAS
Applications @Ubuntu
Applications @OpenSUSE


Is Mathematics Beautiful? Second part: Fractals

“Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty — a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.” – [...]