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The following are links to slides for a presentation that John Johnston and I are giving to Dr. Robin's Buell's lab tomorrow. This presentation is a an introduction to iCER and the HPCC that focuses on Bioinformatics and Pleasantly Parallel …

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migrated to Confluence 4.0"I have a video stitching program that I wrote in MATLAB to combine twooverlapping videos into one (See figure below):Combining two overlapping videos into one image is an important step in ourscientific workflow for studying chameleons. Without image stitching …

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A question that comes up in my research periodically is how much hardware is needed to store and transmit video data? Generally, I get away with the off- the-cuff estimate of 1 hour of video needing 1GB of space. Recently …

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Sometimes the automounter does not properly mount the home directories on our hpcc system. This is not a problem when the job first starts because there is a epilogue script that runs before each …

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I really get frustrated with Custom Build System (CBS), especially with software for scientific research. I define a CBS as a set of scripts/makefiles that are written by the software developers to install their software. In my experience, writing …

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After a few months since our install of RHEL6 and my original post reporting the problem with BLCR:

• https://wiki.hpcc.msu.edu/x/c6LT

We have found and tested a solution that works on our system. Here is a …

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One of the reasons for choosing to work with the Enthought version of Python is that future users of software that we develop do not need to download and figure out how to install all of the different Python modules …

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migrated to Confluence 4.0"

This summer I have some undergraduate students working with me to help jumpstart the image phenomics research projects. Much of what we are doing will be experimental, and we will work on separate projects that are closely integrated. Managing this …

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Historically, experimental observations in science have been limited to handwritten logs and field diaries. However, the recent influx of low cost digital cameras allows researchers who rely on visual observations to digitally record experiments. This has increased the amount of …

Blog post edited by Anonymous - "Migrated to Confluence 4.0"

During the summer of 2012, I am going to conduct a personal experiment to evaluate the benefits of maintaining an online research blog. My goals for this summer blogging project include:

• Getting back into the habit of writing down and …