Setup a New Laptop

Well, most of the parts are easy, bht the Norton is really tough issue. The 1920 error messagem took me hours and still not be fixed.

Link of 1920:
http://entkb.symantec.com/security/output/n2001010315571848.html

None of above works.

A Nice and Easy SNOW Tutorial

http://www.sfu.ca/~sblay/R/snow.html

The linux machine is totally down, maybe I need to reinstall the system.

Securing little "black boxes"

In the light of that we may explore some new computing options, I looked into some security options. I think the most economical way would be something like this.

Be Ready for PS3

Well, of course it's not for games, but for computation. If the cells are really as powerful as they said, then the group might get more for clusters.

Old Machine, New Life

Develop 2:

Pentium 4 2.66G (Single thread), 512M memory, Windows XP Home Edition.
RealVNC installed, user can use VNC Viewer to control this machine remotely.
Virtual Machine installed, Ubuntu (Linux) 6.5.9 can be boot from VM.

Develop 2:

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Ubuntu 7.1.2, user can SSH to this machine and run C & R program remotely.
LAM-MPI installed, R-SNOW package installed.

Yuejing's Progress:

everything is fine, but... the windows machine restarted last night... and Linux got a deadlock... :( old machines really don't have new lives.

R MPI Package Update

Samples succeed after the long update!

1. Update ubuntu from 5.1.0 to 6.0.3
2. Update LAM-MPI from 6.5.9 to 7.1.2 because R requires a higher version MPI
3. Install R and necessary packages
4. Testing samples.

Sample program:

rnorm and runif, bootstrap and other samples are still in testing.