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In this article, I shall list down the useful software packages I have installed in my Ubuntu (18.04.2 LTS 64-bit) operating system. I used the following commands to install them just after a fresh install of the OS. Some General and Basic Packages: The first command updates the package list of the system. The command … Read more My Ubuntu Packages
In this article, we shall see the basic file system structure used in SERC. You would have known by now that when it comes to scientific computing, the only operating system used is Linux (or some UNIX based variants). SERC systems generally have some Linux OS (e.g. Tyrone cluster has CentOS) installed in them. … Read more File system structure in SERC
Say, you have many files with two columns of data. If we want to plot the data in each file in a separate plot, it will take a lot of time do it manually one by one. But using a simple shell script, this can be done at once. Let the files be named as data1, … Read more Plotting many data files and creating an animation in gnuplot
The Supercomputer Education and Research Centre (SERC) at Indian Institute of Science (IISc) is a large computing facility available to the students of the Institute. But many students face the problem of not knowing where to start and how to go about things to perform computations there. Also I found that the SERC website is not … Read more Introduction to computing @ SERC, IISc