Month: February 2009

  • Getting started with Open MPI on Fedora

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    Recently rediscovered the world of parallel computing after wondering what to do with a bunch of mostly idle Linux boxes, all running various versions of Fedora Core Linux. I found this guide particularly useful and decided to elaborate on the subject here. Background Open MPI is an open-source implementation of the Message Passing Interface which…

  • Hauppauge WinTV-NOVA-HD-S2 working on Fedora Rawhide

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    Long story short, I installed Fedora Core 10, enabled fedora-rawhide.repo and upgraded to Rawhide (17th Feb ’09), giving the following post install/upgrade: acl-2.2.47-3.fc10.i386 apr-1.3.3-3.fc11.i386 apr-util-1.3.4-2.fc11.i386 apr-util-ldap-1.3.4-2.fc11.i386 attr-2.4.43-1.fc10.i386 audit-libs-1.7.11-2.fc11.i386 audit-libs-python-1.7.11-2.fc11.i386 authconfig-5.4.7-1.fc11.i386 basesystem-10.0-1.noarch bash-4.0-0.4.rc1.fc11.i386 binutils-2.19.51.0.2-12.fc11.i386 bzip2-1.0.5-3.fc10.i386 bzip2-libs-1.0.5-3.fc10.i386 ca-certificates-2008-7.noarch checkpolicy-2.0.16-3.fc10.i386 chkconfig-1.3.41-1.i386 compat-db45-4.5.20-5.fc10.i386 ConsoleKit-libs-0.3.0-3.fc11.i386 coreutils-7.0-7.fc11.i386 cpio-2.9.90-3.fc11.i386 cpp-4.4.0-0.19.i386 cracklib-2.8.13-2.i386 cracklib-dicts-2.8.13-2.i386 cronie-1.2-7.fc10.i386 crontabs-1.10-28.fc11.noarch curl-7.18.2-9.fc11.i386 cyrus-sasl-lib-2.1.22-21.fc11.i386 db4-4.7.25-9.fc11.i386 db4-utils-4.7.25-9.fc11.i386 dbus-1.2.4.4permissive-1.fc11.i386 dbus-glib-0.80-1.fc11.i386 dbus-libs-1.2.4.4permissive-1.fc11.i386 dbus-python-0.83.0-4.fc11.i386…