Category: Mac How To

I don’t know about you, but I often have to go through rings to retrieve output data from calculations run on clusters or supercomputers, in order to analyze it on my Mac. Most of these systems are well protected, with access only via SSH. That…

Fortran 90 can include reasonably complex dependencies, which must be taken into account when building a multiple-file program. Unfortunately, most build tools either don’t support Fortran, or don’t help the developer much. A standard make file, for example, requires you to enter dependencies manually, or develop a…

I recently started a postdoctoral position and one of my first tasks was to get Sun Grid Engine up and running on our new Xserve cluster. I downloaded the sge-6.1u2 darwin binaries from http://gridengine.sunsource.net/ and then began the installation. The installation scripts are very picky…

Within this section, I’ll show you how to answer even more specific questions about your application via the use of custom static probes, and I’ll demonstrate how easy it is to use DTrace within Instruments to extend its already powerful data capture capabilities. Custom DTrace…

This post is not specific to the Mac, but there are probably many MR readers that have to use Fortran in some aspect of their work, so it certainly can’t hurt… Callbacks for Mac A few weeks ago I was lamenting the difficulty of implementing…

Articles in this series include: Hello Brave New World Classy Cocoa Living Objects Good References It’s All in the Genes Jekyll and Hyde Into Xcode IB, Therefore I am MVC is not the ‘Motor Vehicle Commission’ Popping Up All Over the Place The Value in…

As my grant writing has ramped up over the years, I’ve gradually brought my workflow over to the iWork suite and found it much more satisfying than in the Office world. Surprisingly, there are no resources on the internet providing tips and tricks for research…

Good day friends, I am trying to compile the latest stable iteration of MPI, downloadable from http://www.mcs.anl.gov/research/projects/mpich2/index.php, on my MacBook Pro that utilizes the Snow Leopard OS, 10.6.4. I have installed both gfortran and gcc, both obtained from http://hpc.sourceforge.net/ When I compile the MPI program,…

The OpenCL Tutorials: In iTunes, you can subscribe to the podcasts by going to: Advanced -> Subscribe to podcast URL: http://feeds.feedburner.com/opencl Episode 1 – Introduction to OpenCL Episode 2 – OpenCL Fundamentals Episode 3 – Building an OpenCL Project Episode 4 – Memory Layout and…

Since Snow Leopard is coming soon, and the first episode of the series was well received I’m releasing the second episode earlier than I was planning. Lot’s of excitement around Snow Leopard and OpenCL it seems. So something to keep you busy until Snow Leopard…