Sometimes sophisticated job queue and cluster systems are overkill on office or individual PCs, especially for long lists of batch processing jobs that use comparatively few resources. Use task-spooler to queue commands on Linux and control the number of simultaneous jobs for an easy way to parallelize a list of batch jobs! This tool is a great... Read more 17 Nov 2020 - 1 minute read
If you have ever had a need to move the output of a Linux console command to your clipboard, xclip is the solution! To copy a file’s contents to the standard “ctl+c/v” clipboard buffer issue you can following this command: xclip -sel clip your-file-path The most useful feature is reading from a stdin pipe: head my-file-path | xclip -sel cli... Read more 16 Nov 2020 - less than 1 minute read
So prior the the recent TACC training on containers I was trying to get our WRF Docker images to run up on the TACC HPC infrastructure using Singularity. I checked the version of Singularity on the Lonestar5 cluster and it was behind the most recent versions a bit, but luckily there are Docker images for Singularity so you can play with whateve... Read more 18 Mar 2020 - 1 minute read