MCS Linux requirements
The UIS solicits software requirements for the Managed Cluster System machines installed in the Intel Lab every year. If you are a course organizer, you can use this page to document your requirements here, and then point Graham Titmus every year at them after you have updated them. Please create for each of your undergraduate course where you expect students to use MCS Linux a heading, and include in the heading the term for which you last reviewed these requirements, and the crsid of the person who last reviewed these requirements.
Digital Signal Processing
Michaelmas 2019, mgk25:
- MATLAB including the Signal Processing Toolbox and Image Processing Toolbox.
- python3-numpy, python3-matplotlib, python3-scipy
Unix Tools
Michaelmas 2019, mgk25:
- bash, bash-doc, coreutils, sed, man-db, manpages, info, texinfo
- emacs, vim, vim-doc, less
- make, make-doc, gcc, gcc-doc, gdb, gdb-doc
- wget, curl, openssh-client, rsync
- tar, unzip, gzip, bzip2
- diffutils, patch, rcs, subversion, git, gitk
- perl, perl-doc
- aptitude
Security
Easter 2020, mgk25:
- virtualbox, virtualbox-qt
- netcat-openbsd
- perl
- krb5-user, ldap-utils, libsasl2-modules-gssapi-mit
- firefox
- openssl
Cryptography
Lent 2020, mgk25:
- perl, python3, sagemath
- openssl
UK/Ireland Programming Competition
October 2019, mgk25:
Each October, we use the Intel Lab machines to host one site of the UK/Ireland Programming Competition, which is a regional competition to help UK and Irish universities select student teams to participate in the later North-West European Regional Contest, the winners of which then go to the International Collegiate Programming Contest world finals.
The MCS Linux machines should offer pre-installed
- at least all the software available to participants in the 2020 ICPC World Finals Programming Environment
- ideally also all the software available on the North-West European Regional Contest machines
There should be clear instructions on how to print from MCS Linux on the printers installed in the Intel lab.
When determining the site capacity, assume that 12.5% of all available MCS PCs will not be working on the day, even if they have been tested successfully three days earlier.
