Coinciding with the Containers at TACC training taking place today via webinar, here is a method I have used successfully to build our version of SWAN v41.10 spectral wave model in order to run with MPI on the University of Texas’ Stampede2 cluster. Build SWAN with Docker The following Dockerfile will build the parallel mpi implementation of S... Read more 04 May 2022 - 2 minute read
Intermittent problems getting my PC to recognize my Sony a6000 and a5100 mirrorless cameras led me to some web searching for solutions that I thought would be either software, driver, system OS, or firmware related. I found the following instructions which shed some light on the issue: Insert USB-A into computer and Micro-USB into camer... Read more 25 Apr 2022 - 1 minute read
I ran out of system SSD disk space on my Win10 PC at home and tracked a large share of the usage to a vhdx virtual disk image file in a Docker Desktop folder. Below is the summary of what I found. Docker Desktop for Windows uses WSL to manage all your images and container files and keeps them in a private virtual hard drive (VHDX) called ext... Read more 15 Apr 2022 - 1 minute read