OSIRIX
OSIRIX is a free software that is available from http://homepage.mac.com/rossetantoine/osirix/Index2.html. It is basically a DICOM viewer that can do many basic things to assist in general medical visualization and analysis.
Parallelization of d2_cluster
Attached is some work i have done in the past for a company for the benchmarking of d2_cluster in MPI mode. I can’t provide the details as the source was revealed to me under NDA. The attached document was the best i could do.
Abstract: The increasing use of EST data for sequence analysis has lead to the parallization of such computations in order to provide for the capabilities to analyze these information at a greater rate. Coupled with the improvements and affordability of Linux clusters, new methods of parrallizing d2_cluster to aid in the sequence analysis would be beneficial. D2_cluster was parrallized using MPI in a Beowulf cluster. Results obtained in the tests shows promising results with speed up of 42.7 over a uni-processor system using 8 CPUs.
Preliminary Guide to VMD and NAMD
Introduction
These instructions here are to help to install some interesting demos for Beowulf for demo of bio-life-sciences applications.. or something close to it. hopefully this would be useful to someone who wants to show some molecular stuff and don’t know what to show…. Get the required software at their respective homepages.
Xgrid in HPC
Apple’s Xgrid system comes delivered with OSX and is a simple way of getting into Distributed Computing. Its simplicity allows users to be able to quickly turn on the Grid system and quickly get to submit jobs. However, a layer of complexity can exist if more is required. Such as greater security, advance job tracing, as well MPI integration using OpenMPI.
Xgrid is currently in its first revision.
Note: OSX Server is required to be able to run the Xgrid controller daemon. However, it is also possible to run it on a OSX Client as the controller binaries are also available there. That said, i have yet to find out how to configure the controller daemon on a OSX Client easily.