Custom Build Systems

Tue 15 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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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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Solution to BLCR Segmentation Bug

Tue 15 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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

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

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Video Processing and Enthought Python

Tue 15 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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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 …

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Choosing Python

Mon 14 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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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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Scientific Imaging Research Group

Mon 14 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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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 …

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Summer 2012 Research Blog Experiment

Thu 10 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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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 …
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Faculty Seminars in Research and Instructional Technology

Tue 08 May 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Here are the slides for the Intro to HPCC, Intro to MATLAB and Advanced HPCC Classes.

2012-05-08 Introduction to HPCC.pdf
2012-05-08 Introduction to Matlab.pdf
2012-05-09 Advanced HPCC.pdf

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Blogpost migrated from ICER Wiki using custom python …

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Files as semaphores

Sun 15 April 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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The following is a script that is designed to make it really easy to run a large number of embarrassingly parallel jobs on our scheduling system. The trick to getting this to work is …

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Debugging BLCR problem

Tue 10 April 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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We have isolated the problem. Details of the solution can be found at the following blog post: https://wiki.hpcc.msu.edu/x/qKXT

We had BLCR working great on our SLES10 HPC system …

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ASEE North Central Regional Conference Presentation

Thu 29 March 2012 by Dr. Dirk Colbry

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Over the weekend I presented a talk on the Cybergreen class that I taught for 2010-2011 school year. The paper was well recieved and even won "Best paper, second place." Here is a link to my slides.

2012-03-24 colbrydi.pdf …

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