Book Review: Inside the Machine
Inside the Machine, by Jon Stokes, co-founder and Senior CPU Editor of Arstechnica, demystifies much of what computers do by presenting, from the ground up, a comprehensive picture of how modern CPUs work. Whether you are a student, IT professional, computer scientist or are simply curious about computer design this book…
OpenMacGrid Project Proposal Form
To submit a project proposal for OpenMacGrid you need to be a registered MacResearch user. Registration is free. When you are registered, login and fill out the form below. Once MacResearch receives your submission we will review it and notify you of the status of your project. Please fill in…
The Xgrid Tutorials
Links to the Xgrid Security tutorials: Xgrid Basics GridStuffer Basics Running Batch Jobs Using Ruby with Xgrid Xgrid Leopard: the good, the bad, the ugly, and the new stuff Xgrid Leopard: Scoreboard rules!
Custom Xcode Templates
When adding new files to a project in Xcode, you are presented with a menu to select file types to choose from that often are pre-populated with text or code. As part of the Xcode/gfortran contest I created one that is included in the package for generating a generic FORTRAN…
Tutorial: SSH To Alternate Ports and Enabling Multiple Security SSH Daemons
For one reason or another people often find themselves needing to ssh/sftp to an alternate port (default is port 22) on their systems. Additionally, sometimes it may be beneficial to have ssh open on multiple ports simultaneously. All of this can be done on Mac OS X although all of…
Matlab and OS X
I have seen a couple of threads on Matlab on OS X on this forum and I want to re-propose the issue. In particular one of the threads (about 2 years ago) stated that Matlab on OS X is not “native” and therefore it runs slower than it would run…
Grants.gov: MacViewer Installer for Intel Based Macs
MacResearch has modified the installer for the MacViewer application (Pure Edge application for Macs from IBM) to enable it to install on Intel based Macs. The installed application will run via translation through Rosetta. No modifications have been made to the actual application. Therefore this installer CAN also be used…
Crunching Numbers With Applescript
Applescript can be great for automating tasks, gluing applications together, or for extending the functionality of existing applications, however it rarely comes to mind when one thinks about developing number-crunching analytical code. Satimage, the makers of SmileLab, have released Numerics.osax, an AppleScript plugin that provides a suite of computational and mathematics facilities…
Tiger’s scientific gem: Grapher.app
One of the most underrated features introduced in OS X 10.4 (Tiger), especially for scientists, is Grapher.app, the powerful 2D and 3D graphing calculator located in the Applications->Utilities folder. Grapher is capable of creating both 2D graphs including margins, classic, polar, lin-log, log-log, polar log and white as well as…
Applescript Tutorial 9: Embedding chemical information in image files
Rich Apodaca has been discussing embedding molecular information in images of molecules, such as a PNG file depicting a 2D structure. As we move to a more web-centric view of the world it is apparent that much of research information will be only available via the web, whilst images of chemical structures…
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