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MATLAB sessions on Wednesday September 4, 2013

August 16, 2013 by leblanc

Complimentary MATLAB seminars for educators, academic researchers and students at the University of Toronto have been scheduled:

Date:		Wednesday, September 4, 2013
Location:		Bissell Building, Room 205
Time:		10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

The event features two technical sessions presented by MathWorks engineers:

	10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Session 1: An Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization with MATLAB Learn how to acquire, analyze and visualize data through mathematical, statistical and engineering functions.

	1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Session 2: Parallel Computing with MATLAB Learn how to solve computationally and data-intensive problems using multicore processors, GPUs, and computer clusters.

View the complete session descriptions and register at: http://www.mathworks.com/seminars/TorontoSept4.

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New sphere

July 11, 2013 by leblanc

The update of hardware for sphere went smoothly. The new machine is faster and we have installed the latest versions of:

Magma (version V2.19-7); type magma to run it
Mathematica (version 9.0.1); type math (CLI) or mathematica (GUI) to run it
Matlab (version R2013a); type matlab to run it

As mentioned before we are negotiating to get the newest version of Maple as well.

There is some free mathematical software on sphere as well:

Asymptote, a powerful descriptive vector graphics language; type asy (CLI) or xasy (GUI) to run it
Axiom, a general purpose computer algebra system; type axiom to run it
Macaulay2, a software system devoted to supporting research in algebraic geometry and commutative algebra; type M2 to run it
Sage, a free open-source mathematics software system licensed under the GPL which combines the power of many existing open-source packages into a common Python-based interface and whose mission is to create a viable free open source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab; type sage to run it

The new sphere has over 1TB of scratchspace (space which is NOT BACKED UP, to be used for temporary files only, that may disappear at any time) for users. Each user has, in additional to their home directory mounted from coxeter, a directory in /DO_NOT_BACK_UP/scratch/<user’s account name>.

Filed Under: software, updates

MATLAB sessions on Tuesday June 18, 2013

June 6, 2013 by leblanc

The Licensed Software Office would like to pass along the following invitation.

Faculty, staff, researchers and students are welcome to join us at complimentary MATLAB seminars at the University of Toronto:

Date: Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Location: 1180 Auditorium (Bahen Centre for Information Technology (BA))
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

Our event features two technical sessions presented by MathWorks engineers:

10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Session 1: Image Processing with MATLAB
Learn how MATLAB and the Image Processing Toolbox can provide a flexible environment to explore design ideas and how to create unique solutions for imaging systems.

1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Session 2: Optimization in MATLAB
Learn to set up and run optimizations using MATLAB and discuss how to choose the best solver for an optimization problem.

View complete session descriptions and register at mathworks.com/seminars/UT2013.

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MATLAB sessions on Wednesday May 1, 2013

April 9, 2013 by leblanc

A complimentary MATLAB training seminar for educators, academic researchers and students at the University of Toronto has been scheduled.

Date:		Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Location:		Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Lecture Theatre, 550 University (Avenue) Center
Time:		9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

>>REGISTER NOW

Our event features two technical sessions presented by a MathWorks engineer:

	9:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Session 1: Medical Image Processing with MATLAB Learn how you can use MATLAB to acquire, process, and analyze medical images.

	1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Session 2: Optimizing and Accelerating Your MATLAB Code Learn simple ways to optimize and accelerate the execution speed of your MATLAB code.

View complete session descriptions and register at mathworks.com/seminars/UTMay1.

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Mail server is working again

March 6, 2013 by leblanc

The spam filter software installation took much less time than expected and everything seems to have been back to normal before 8am.

Filed Under: Email, software, updates

Mail server is now down

March 6, 2013 by leblanc

The spam filter software upgrade has begun.

Filed Under: Email, software, updates

Mail server downtime starting at 7am on Wednesday March 6, 2013

March 4, 2013 by leblanc

The departmental mail server will be unavailable starting at 7am on Wednesday (March 6, 2013) morning for an update to the spam filter software. We expect that it will be back by 9am and will post status updates here if there are changes.

Filed Under: Email, software, updates

MATLAB sessions on Tuesday Feb 26, 2013

February 7, 2013 by leblanc

A complimentary MATLAB sessions for educators, academic researchers and students at the University of Toronto has been scheduled.

Date:		Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Location:		Bissell Building, Room 250 (BL 250)
Time:		10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.

>>Register Now

The event features two technical sessions presented by a MathWorks engineer:

	10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.: Session 1: An Introduction to Data Analysis and Visualization with MATLAB Learn to use MATLAB for algorithm development, data analysis, visualization, and numerical computation.

	1:00 – 3:00 p.m.: Session 2: Optimizing and Accelerating Your MATLAB Code Learn simple ways to optimize and parallelize your MATLAB code to reduce the execution time of computationally intensive MATLAB applications.

View the complete session descriptions and register at mathworks.com/seminars/UTor2013.

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Software updates at 4:15pm on Wednesday November 28, 2012

November 26, 2012 by leblanc

We hope that the update described below will also fix the kdm display manager problem that is causing problems with the “red coxeter login window” not properly being restarted after people logout from some graphical terminals (in offices or BA6200, for example).

The departmental servers coxeter, sphere, and the mail, web, and blog/wiki servers will have software updates applied this Wednesday afternoon, November 28, 2012 which will require rebooting (most servers will be unavailable starting at 4:15pm). Since some updates will be applied while the servers are still up there may be some temporary issues with some software. We hope that any such issues will be minor and by doing most of the upgrading before bringing systems down the shorter downtime will be worth the potential minor problems. Please restart any programs if you observe problems during the upgrades (and please let us know at requests@math.toronto.edu, so we can investigate). We expect the systems to be back up by 5:00pm.

Filed Under: Reboots, software

Problem with kdm (graphical login manager)

November 26, 2012 by leblanc

Currently there is a problem with kdm which means that graphical logins to coxeter from machines in offices and BA6200, for example, is not working. We are investigating the problem and may have to reboot later today.

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