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Linux & Scientific Computing – Physics & Astronomy

Linux & Scientific Computing – Physics & Astronomy

Updates and news about Scientific Computing and Linux computational facilities in the School of Physics & Astronomy

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  3. January

Month: January 2023

Microsoft Teams for Linux – Important Changes Coming!

We’ve been providing Microsoft’s “native” Linux Teams client on all of our Ubuntu Linux desktop PCs – including the CPLab PCs used for our undergraduate & MSc teaching – since we first rolled out our Ubuntu Linux Platform back in 2020. In September 2022, Microsoft announced that they’d be retiring their Linux Teams client in […]

12th January 2023 0

Retirement of our legacy SGE Compute Cluster

After many years of tireless service, we’re finally going to retire our old SGE Compute Cluster in favour of our newer compute facilities – in particular our new Slurm Compute Cluster. This blog post outlines the timetable and rationale for this work, and provides some guidance to help you prepare for this change.

11th January 2023 0

Anaconda upgrade to 2022.10

We’ve packaged up the latest version (2022.10) of Anaconda for our School’s Ubuntu Linux Platform, and we’ll shortly be rolling this out to all of our Ubuntu Linux hosts ahead of the start of Semester 2.

10th January 2023 0

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