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Marble 0.3
Marble is an early beta preview of the Marble Widget application which is targeted for KDE 4. more>>
Marble is an early beta preview of the Marble Widget application which is targeted for KDE 4.
You need to install both packages: "marble" and "marble-data" to run Marble.
Marble is a generic geographical map widget that is meant to be used by KDE4 applications. It shows the earth as a sphere but doesnt make use of any hardware acceleration (No OpenGL). So although it might look similar to professional applications like Google Earth or Nasa World Wind its rather meant to be a small light weight multi purpose widget. To improve speed I decided to compile the Kubuntu packages with SSE support (-msse).
Main features:
- Marble uses a minimal free dataset that can be used offline. Currently the total amount of data that is meant to be shipped is about 5 MB.
- Marble doesnt use OpenGL or 3D hardware acceleration. It just uses Arthur as a painting backend. Extending it later on to support OpenGL as well shouldnt be hard however I dont consider that the primary focus. Depending on your hardware and the maps being displayed framerate is approximately 5-20 fps.
- Marble uses vector as well as bitmap data: Currently it uses the very old MWDB II data combined with ETOPO 2, which I will update to current SRTM soon.
- Marble displays the world map as a 3D sphere, because its more fun to use and less subject to distortion (So with regard to that its just like NASA WorldWind, Earth3D and Google Earth)
- Marble should start up almost instantly. Currently it "cold" starts fully within 2-5 seconds. On each subsequent start it takes about one second.
- Uses KML-Import to display places (Google Earths open format to store placemarks)
- Cities Down to 12000 inhabitants that you can click on using the mouse. Highest Mountains of each continent. Automatic Placemark label placement.
- Different Map Themes, Layers
- Dynamic Coordinate Grid
- Measure Tool
- Basic Wikipedia integration
<<lessYou need to install both packages: "marble" and "marble-data" to run Marble.
Marble is a generic geographical map widget that is meant to be used by KDE4 applications. It shows the earth as a sphere but doesnt make use of any hardware acceleration (No OpenGL). So although it might look similar to professional applications like Google Earth or Nasa World Wind its rather meant to be a small light weight multi purpose widget. To improve speed I decided to compile the Kubuntu packages with SSE support (-msse).
Main features:
- Marble uses a minimal free dataset that can be used offline. Currently the total amount of data that is meant to be shipped is about 5 MB.
- Marble doesnt use OpenGL or 3D hardware acceleration. It just uses Arthur as a painting backend. Extending it later on to support OpenGL as well shouldnt be hard however I dont consider that the primary focus. Depending on your hardware and the maps being displayed framerate is approximately 5-20 fps.
- Marble uses vector as well as bitmap data: Currently it uses the very old MWDB II data combined with ETOPO 2, which I will update to current SRTM soon.
- Marble displays the world map as a 3D sphere, because its more fun to use and less subject to distortion (So with regard to that its just like NASA WorldWind, Earth3D and Google Earth)
- Marble should start up almost instantly. Currently it "cold" starts fully within 2-5 seconds. On each subsequent start it takes about one second.
- Uses KML-Import to display places (Google Earths open format to store placemarks)
- Cities Down to 12000 inhabitants that you can click on using the mouse. Highest Mountains of each continent. Automatic Placemark label placement.
- Different Map Themes, Layers
- Dynamic Coordinate Grid
- Measure Tool
- Basic Wikipedia integration
Download (6.3MB)
Added: 2007-03-26 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
951 downloads
Alien Blaster 1.1.0
Alien Blaster project is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game for up to two players. more>>
Alien Blaster project is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game for up to two players.
alienblaster is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game.
Your mission in the game is simple: stop the invasion of the aliens by blasting them.
Simultaneous two-player mode is available.
Main features:
- many aliens to blast
- a big bad boss
- different weapons
- special items
- cooperative mode (2 players playing on 1 computer)
- gamepad/joystick support
- arcade mode with highscore
- open source
- published under GPL
- runs with Windows and Linux
<<lessalienblaster is an action-loaded 2D arcade shooter game.
Your mission in the game is simple: stop the invasion of the aliens by blasting them.
Simultaneous two-player mode is available.
Main features:
- many aliens to blast
- a big bad boss
- different weapons
- special items
- cooperative mode (2 players playing on 1 computer)
- gamepad/joystick support
- arcade mode with highscore
- open source
- published under GPL
- runs with Windows and Linux
Download (6.3MB)
Added: 2006-11-10 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1078 downloads
Scrabble Blast Solver 0.1
Scrabble Blast Solver application more>>
Scrabble Blast Solver 0.1 offers you a professional and easy-to-use software which is an effective way to find and display words and their score for the popular online Scrabble Blast game. This product will be your good choice.
Enhancements: Only calculates the correct score of words for the first round.
Added: 2009-01-29 License: GPL Price: FREE
20 downloads
LMarbles 1.0.7
LMarbles is an Atomix clone with a slight change in concept. more>>
LMarbles is an Atomix clone with a slight change in concept. Instead of assembling molecules you create figures out of marbles. Nevertheless, the basic game play is the same: If a marble starts to move it will not stop until it hits a wall or another marble.
To make it more interesting there are obstacles like one-way streets, crumbling walls and portals.
As Marbles is meant as a puzzle game you play against a move limit and not a time limit. This way you have as much time as you need to think.
<<lessTo make it more interesting there are obstacles like one-way streets, crumbling walls and portals.
As Marbles is meant as a puzzle game you play against a move limit and not a time limit. This way you have as much time as you need to think.
Download (0.80MB)
Added: 2005-04-02 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1673 downloads
Marbles 1.0.0-1
Marbles is a simple board game. more>>
Marbles is a simple board game. The objective is to take out as big groups of marbles as possible. Highscore system included. Ive also programmed some simple physics to make it look like the marbles fall.
If you hold the mouse over a cluster of marbles for a little while, then the potential score will show. You get bonuses if you remove eg. all the blue ones.
Installation:
./configure && make
su
./install_marbles.sh
exit
(Dont use "make install", if you did do a "make uninstall")
Start it by typing:
marbles
Its not programmed in QT, but it works in KDE.
Current record:
25960 points
- Held by a friend. Dont think anyone will beat that in a while:)
<<lessIf you hold the mouse over a cluster of marbles for a little while, then the potential score will show. You get bonuses if you remove eg. all the blue ones.
Installation:
./configure && make
su
./install_marbles.sh
exit
(Dont use "make install", if you did do a "make uninstall")
Start it by typing:
marbles
Its not programmed in QT, but it works in KDE.
Current record:
25960 points
- Held by a friend. Dont think anyone will beat that in a while:)
Download (0.18MB)
Added: 2006-03-22 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1311 downloads
Domino Blast 0.1
Domino Blast project is a physics-based driving/demolition game with a childrens toys theme. more>>
Domino Blast project is a physics-based driving/demolition game with a childrens toys theme.
Domino Blast is a hybrid driving and destruction game with a childrens toys theme. Its environments consist of buildings constructed from domino tiles and a player-controllable toy car. The objective of the game is to wreak as much havoc as possible, within a time limit.
Its game-play is simplistic yet satisfying; similar to the satisfaction gained from watching a tumbling Jenga tower, except the objective is to tumble the tower, rather than slowly deconstruct it. As the game progresses, levels become more dense and the buildings that inhabit them become larger and more complex.
<<lessDomino Blast is a hybrid driving and destruction game with a childrens toys theme. Its environments consist of buildings constructed from domino tiles and a player-controllable toy car. The objective of the game is to wreak as much havoc as possible, within a time limit.
Its game-play is simplistic yet satisfying; similar to the satisfaction gained from watching a tumbling Jenga tower, except the objective is to tumble the tower, rather than slowly deconstruct it. As the game progresses, levels become more dense and the buildings that inhabit them become larger and more complex.
Download (6.0MB)
Added: 2007-06-18 License: Freeware Price:
858 downloads
ManiacMarble3D 2.0.2
ManiacMarble3D is the ultimate marble game. more>>
ManiacMarble3D is the ultimate marble game.
ManiacMarble3D is a remake of a well known game concept. The player has to guide a marble from the start to a target point in a 3D environment. The tricky part of the game is the constant fight against the gravity because the marble has to be moved across small platforms in the sky.
The soundtrack was performed by "the famous band Lasch".
<<lessManiacMarble3D is a remake of a well known game concept. The player has to guide a marble from the start to a target point in a 3D environment. The tricky part of the game is the constant fight against the gravity because the marble has to be moved across small platforms in the sky.
The soundtrack was performed by "the famous band Lasch".
Download (13.9MB)
Added: 2007-08-10 License: Freeware Price:
805 downloads
Bio::Index::Blast 1.4
Bio::Index::Blast is a Perl module with indexes Blast reports and supports retrieval based on query accession(s). more>>
Bio::Index::Blast is a Perl module with indexes Blast reports and supports retrieval based on query accession(s).
SYNOPSIS
use strict;
use Bio::Index::Blast;
my ($indexfile,$file1, $file2);
my $index = new Bio::Index::Blast(-filename => $indexfile,
-write_flag => 1);
$index->make_index($file1, $file2);
my $id;
my $data = $index->get_stream($id);
my $bplite_report = $index->fetch_report($id);
print "query is ", $bplite_report->query, "n";
while( my $sbjct = $bplite_report->nextSbjct ) {
print $sbjct->name, "n";
while( my $hsp = $sbjct->nextHSP ) {
print "t e-value ", $hsp->P,
}
print "n";
}
This object allows one to build an index on a blast file (or files) and provide quick access to the blast report for that accession. Note: for best results use strict.
<<lessSYNOPSIS
use strict;
use Bio::Index::Blast;
my ($indexfile,$file1, $file2);
my $index = new Bio::Index::Blast(-filename => $indexfile,
-write_flag => 1);
$index->make_index($file1, $file2);
my $id;
my $data = $index->get_stream($id);
my $bplite_report = $index->fetch_report($id);
print "query is ", $bplite_report->query, "n";
while( my $sbjct = $bplite_report->nextSbjct ) {
print $sbjct->name, "n";
while( my $hsp = $sbjct->nextHSP ) {
print "t e-value ", $hsp->P,
}
print "n";
}
This object allows one to build an index on a blast file (or files) and provide quick access to the blast report for that accession. Note: for best results use strict.
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Added: 2006-10-10 License: Perl Artistic License Price:
1111 downloads
Tiny Marbles 1.0 Final
Tiny Marbles provides persistence for dynamic objects, through a data model that you can create, modify and extend at runtime. more>>
Tiny Marbles provides persistence for dynamic objects, through a data model that you can create, modify and extend at runtime.
It is useful for developers who need to create rapid prototypes with an unknown model and developers of applications that have inherently dynamic data models. Tiny Marbles project runs under Java 1.5, supports any database that Hibernate supports.
<<lessIt is useful for developers who need to create rapid prototypes with an unknown model and developers of applications that have inherently dynamic data models. Tiny Marbles project runs under Java 1.5, supports any database that Hibernate supports.
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Added: 2007-08-16 License: The Apache License 2.0 Price:
801 downloads
mpiBLAST 1.4.0-pio
mpiBLAST is an MPI based parallel implementation of NCBI BLAST. more>>
mpiBLAST is an MPI based parallel implementation of NCBI BLAST. The project consists of a pair of programs that replace formatdb and blastall with versions that execute BLAST jobs in parallel on a cluster of computers with MPI installed. There are two primary advantages to using mpiBLAST versus traditional BLAST.
First, mpiBLAST splits the database across each node in the cluster. Because each nodes segment of the database is smaller it can usually reside in the buffer-cache, yielding a significant speedup due to the elimination of disk I/O. Second, it allows BLAST users to take advantage of efficient, low-cost Beowulf clusters because interprocessor communication demands are low.
mpiBLAST achieves super-linear speedup in situations where the database is too large to fit into RAM, and near linear speedup in other situations. It does not require a dedicated cluster.
<<lessFirst, mpiBLAST splits the database across each node in the cluster. Because each nodes segment of the database is smaller it can usually reside in the buffer-cache, yielding a significant speedup due to the elimination of disk I/O. Second, it allows BLAST users to take advantage of efficient, low-cost Beowulf clusters because interprocessor communication demands are low.
mpiBLAST achieves super-linear speedup in situations where the database is too large to fit into RAM, and near linear speedup in other situations. It does not require a dedicated cluster.
Download (0.33MB)
Added: 2007-06-29 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
848 downloads
PHPrbl 0.4
PHPrbl is a quick and easy tool that keeps clients using open proxies away from your site in order to reduce referrer spam. more>>
PHPrbl is a quick and easy tool that keeps clients using open proxies away from your site in order to reduce referrer spam.
Ever had those annoying referrer spammers ruin your websites statistics? If you run a big website, or a weblog, you must be getting fed up with this blasted referrer spam.
Youre not alone, I have this problem as well and got fed up with the whole thing. After weeks of playing with the idea of blocking referrer spammers using rewrite rules, I got fed up wit the high amount of energy it would demand of me just to block IP addresses that seemed to be open proxies anyway.
Enhancements:
- Streamlined the code based on input given by Steven Lynn. Fewer queries are now used to do the same thing. Thanks!
- New feature: keywords checking; referrers are now matched to keywords given by the site admin. If a match occurs, the client will be blocked. (For myself this feature has already proven to be very, very effective)
- First start of an admin area for PHPrbl, for now, only the ability to add and removed keywords is present. Whitelisting and local IP blocklist management will be added soon.
<<lessEver had those annoying referrer spammers ruin your websites statistics? If you run a big website, or a weblog, you must be getting fed up with this blasted referrer spam.
Youre not alone, I have this problem as well and got fed up with the whole thing. After weeks of playing with the idea of blocking referrer spammers using rewrite rules, I got fed up wit the high amount of energy it would demand of me just to block IP addresses that seemed to be open proxies anyway.
Enhancements:
- Streamlined the code based on input given by Steven Lynn. Fewer queries are now used to do the same thing. Thanks!
- New feature: keywords checking; referrers are now matched to keywords given by the site admin. If a match occurs, the client will be blocked. (For myself this feature has already proven to be very, very effective)
- First start of an admin area for PHPrbl, for now, only the ability to add and removed keywords is present. Whitelisting and local IP blocklist management will be added soon.
Download (0.016MB)
Added: 2005-10-26 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1458 downloads
BomberMaze 0.6.6
BomberMaze project is a bomberman clone. more>>
BomberMaze project is a bomberman clone.
It is a multiplayer action game in which players run around a square-grid maze while dropping bombs and collecting power-ups.
The bombs explode after a short time delay, taking out any nearby bricks and players.
Main features:
- Support for 2 to 4 players
- 5 different power-ups: Extra Bomb, Extra Blast Radius, Trigger Bomb, Kick Bomb, and Extra Speed
- Configurable mazes and randomizable mazes
- Configurable key controls
- Theme support (ie., configurable tiles and sprites)
Enhancements:
- New translations: Danish, German, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Ukrainian (da, de, es, it, no, ru, uk).
<<lessIt is a multiplayer action game in which players run around a square-grid maze while dropping bombs and collecting power-ups.
The bombs explode after a short time delay, taking out any nearby bricks and players.
Main features:
- Support for 2 to 4 players
- 5 different power-ups: Extra Bomb, Extra Blast Radius, Trigger Bomb, Kick Bomb, and Extra Speed
- Configurable mazes and randomizable mazes
- Configurable key controls
- Theme support (ie., configurable tiles and sprites)
Enhancements:
- New translations: Danish, German, Spanish, Italian, Norwegian, Russian, and Ukrainian (da, de, es, it, no, ru, uk).
Download (0.49MB)
Added: 2006-11-17 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1072 downloads
qgreylistrbl 0.5
qgreylistrbl is an add-on for qmail. more>>
qgreylistrbl is an add-on for qmail.
Now there are a lot of methods against spam, I have combined two of them: greylisting only for dialin nodes and nodes listed on a RBL. NDNs with more than one recipient will be rejected with permanent error messages and without a greylist entry. A test for EHLO/HELO spoofing was added: if a string is obviously spoofed, the connection will be rejected with a permanent error message, without a greylist entry, and advice to RFC2821. You can define a maximum number of recipients per email.
Greylisting returns a temporary SMTP error at the first delivery attempt. Most spam is sent from bulk mailers that dont retry, so these attempts are blocked. Real mail servers will retry later after a temporary error, allowing the message to go through.
Of course cannot all mail be delayed half an hour or longer to our customers. Thats why I have decided to modify the program qgreylist from Jon Atkins. I have added a RBL request to accept emails from not RBL listed nodes and to delay only dialin lines and RBL listed nodes. The script tests the PTR record of each connecting host for a regular expression to detect dialin nodes.
qgreylist from Jon Atkins puts all files in one base dir. qgreylistrbl creates here a directory structure because of performance reasons. The cleanup is now done by a separate cronjob script and not by qgreylistrbl itself, because when there were some ten thousand files inside the mail server nearly stands still.
Most bulk mailers and zombies,too, do not have queue management. They blast that much emails out into the net, they would be swamped with it. An Example: We use a UW-160 Raid 10 for the queue, but the usual zombie out there has only one IDE disc. Beside even a layman would ask why his hard drive was running all the time.
Effect
80% less spam. Yes, truly. No false positives, NO email gets lost.
Usage
qgreylistrbl is a replacement for rblsmtpd by D.J. Bernstein. Simply put qgreylistrbl instead of rblsmtpd in the command line for starting qmail-smtpd.
Performance
qgreylistrbl is a Perl script. Expect some CPU usage. If you run a QMAILQUEUE-patched version of qmail-smtpd and spamassassin, the load will decrease extensive, because most connection attempts do not cause a mail delivery. With perl > 5.6.1 you can precompile the source code with perlcc.
Installation:
Just copy the perl script wherever you want and edit the start script for qmail-smtpd. qgreylistrbl is a simple replacement for rblsmtpd from D.J. Bernstein and can be used the same way.
Create the greylist IP folder:
# mkdir /var/qmail/qgreylistrbl
# chown qmaild /var/qmail/qgreylistrbl
Adjust User
If you need to install the perl module Mail:RBL, just do the following:
From the root prompt on your server, invoke the CPAN shell:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
Once the Perl interpreter has loaded (and been configured), you can install modules by issuing the command install MODULENAME.
The first thing you should do is upgrade your CPAN:
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Once its done (it will take a while, just enter all questions), type:
cpan> reload cpan
Now, enter the following command to retrieve all of the required modules:
cpan> install Mail::RBL
Then you can be shure everything is installed to correct locations.
Configuration:
At the beginnung of the script you have to adjust a few variables. See script for more details. Important are hostname, working directory, some paths and RBL services. You have to add a crontab entry as follows:
*/20 * * * * vpopmail /var/qmail/bin/qgreylist_cleanup.pl
Adjust user, path and time before.
Dont forget so set up logging facility in /etc/syslog.conf
<<lessNow there are a lot of methods against spam, I have combined two of them: greylisting only for dialin nodes and nodes listed on a RBL. NDNs with more than one recipient will be rejected with permanent error messages and without a greylist entry. A test for EHLO/HELO spoofing was added: if a string is obviously spoofed, the connection will be rejected with a permanent error message, without a greylist entry, and advice to RFC2821. You can define a maximum number of recipients per email.
Greylisting returns a temporary SMTP error at the first delivery attempt. Most spam is sent from bulk mailers that dont retry, so these attempts are blocked. Real mail servers will retry later after a temporary error, allowing the message to go through.
Of course cannot all mail be delayed half an hour or longer to our customers. Thats why I have decided to modify the program qgreylist from Jon Atkins. I have added a RBL request to accept emails from not RBL listed nodes and to delay only dialin lines and RBL listed nodes. The script tests the PTR record of each connecting host for a regular expression to detect dialin nodes.
qgreylist from Jon Atkins puts all files in one base dir. qgreylistrbl creates here a directory structure because of performance reasons. The cleanup is now done by a separate cronjob script and not by qgreylistrbl itself, because when there were some ten thousand files inside the mail server nearly stands still.
Most bulk mailers and zombies,too, do not have queue management. They blast that much emails out into the net, they would be swamped with it. An Example: We use a UW-160 Raid 10 for the queue, but the usual zombie out there has only one IDE disc. Beside even a layman would ask why his hard drive was running all the time.
Effect
80% less spam. Yes, truly. No false positives, NO email gets lost.
Usage
qgreylistrbl is a replacement for rblsmtpd by D.J. Bernstein. Simply put qgreylistrbl instead of rblsmtpd in the command line for starting qmail-smtpd.
Performance
qgreylistrbl is a Perl script. Expect some CPU usage. If you run a QMAILQUEUE-patched version of qmail-smtpd and spamassassin, the load will decrease extensive, because most connection attempts do not cause a mail delivery. With perl > 5.6.1 you can precompile the source code with perlcc.
Installation:
Just copy the perl script wherever you want and edit the start script for qmail-smtpd. qgreylistrbl is a simple replacement for rblsmtpd from D.J. Bernstein and can be used the same way.
Create the greylist IP folder:
# mkdir /var/qmail/qgreylistrbl
# chown qmaild /var/qmail/qgreylistrbl
Adjust User
If you need to install the perl module Mail:RBL, just do the following:
From the root prompt on your server, invoke the CPAN shell:
# perl -MCPAN -e shell
Once the Perl interpreter has loaded (and been configured), you can install modules by issuing the command install MODULENAME.
The first thing you should do is upgrade your CPAN:
cpan> install Bundle::CPAN
Once its done (it will take a while, just enter all questions), type:
cpan> reload cpan
Now, enter the following command to retrieve all of the required modules:
cpan> install Mail::RBL
Then you can be shure everything is installed to correct locations.
Configuration:
At the beginnung of the script you have to adjust a few variables. See script for more details. Important are hostname, working directory, some paths and RBL services. You have to add a crontab entry as follows:
*/20 * * * * vpopmail /var/qmail/bin/qgreylist_cleanup.pl
Adjust user, path and time before.
Dont forget so set up logging facility in /etc/syslog.conf
Download (0.73MB)
Added: 2005-12-20 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1408 downloads
Bioinformatics Benchmark System 3
Bioinformatics Benchmark System is a bioinformatics benchmark system for platform performance measurement. more>>
The Bioinformatics Benchmark System is an attempt to build a reasonable testing framework, tests, and data, to enable end users and vendors to probe the performance of their systems.
What we are trying to do is to create a framework for testing, and a core set of tests that all may download and use to probe specific elements of systems performance.
Moreover, the source to these tests are available under GPL, and are hosted on Bioinformatics.org and Scalable Informatics LLC The idea is to enable end users, consumers, systems developers, and others to easily build and use meaningful tests for measurement and tuning reasons.
Joe Landman from Scalable Informatics LLC conceived the idea and wrote the original codes. We are looking for additional benchmark code suggestions, tests, data sets, etc.
Current baseline tests are several NCBI BLAST runs, several HMMer runs, and a variety of others. We plan to include ClustalW, X!Tandem, various chemistry, dynamics, and related tests, as well as several others.
Tests such as LINPACK or HPL simply do not provide meaningful performance indicators or predictive models for high performance informatics. Unfortunately, nor do a number of more recent and focused tests.
This is a problem as LINPACK and HPL specifically test the performance on various matrix operations, where you have effectively regular memory access patterns, and specific mathematical operations.
These codes are most useful for comparison to codes with heavy floating point operations, and interleaved memory traffic. These codes were not designed for comprehensive systems benchmarking, where disk I/O, memory latency, and other factors all contribute to the performance issues.
The best tests are the ones that are most similar to the codes you will run on the machine. The tests themselves should be reasonable approximations to a real execution of your code, using real data. You may need to pare it back in order to get realistic run times.
You should have a reasonable subset of data sizes. A single test does not tell you how your system scales, and one of the reasons for the existance of this test is specifically to allow you to test the performance while you increase various aspects of the workload.
You rarely get a quiescent system in a cluster, so we would recommend that you try to run in as realistic an operating environment as possible. A baseline in a quiescent system is fine, but it may set your expectations unreasonably.
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<<lessWhat we are trying to do is to create a framework for testing, and a core set of tests that all may download and use to probe specific elements of systems performance.
Moreover, the source to these tests are available under GPL, and are hosted on Bioinformatics.org and Scalable Informatics LLC The idea is to enable end users, consumers, systems developers, and others to easily build and use meaningful tests for measurement and tuning reasons.
Joe Landman from Scalable Informatics LLC conceived the idea and wrote the original codes. We are looking for additional benchmark code suggestions, tests, data sets, etc.
Current baseline tests are several NCBI BLAST runs, several HMMer runs, and a variety of others. We plan to include ClustalW, X!Tandem, various chemistry, dynamics, and related tests, as well as several others.
Tests such as LINPACK or HPL simply do not provide meaningful performance indicators or predictive models for high performance informatics. Unfortunately, nor do a number of more recent and focused tests.
This is a problem as LINPACK and HPL specifically test the performance on various matrix operations, where you have effectively regular memory access patterns, and specific mathematical operations.
These codes are most useful for comparison to codes with heavy floating point operations, and interleaved memory traffic. These codes were not designed for comprehensive systems benchmarking, where disk I/O, memory latency, and other factors all contribute to the performance issues.
The best tests are the ones that are most similar to the codes you will run on the machine. The tests themselves should be reasonable approximations to a real execution of your code, using real data. You may need to pare it back in order to get realistic run times.
You should have a reasonable subset of data sizes. A single test does not tell you how your system scales, and one of the reasons for the existance of this test is specifically to allow you to test the performance while you increase various aspects of the workload.
You rarely get a quiescent system in a cluster, so we would recommend that you try to run in as realistic an operating environment as possible. A baseline in a quiescent system is fine, but it may set your expectations unreasonably.
top
Download (5.0MB)
Added: 2005-08-12 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
1533 downloads
MMap 0.0.10
MMap is a GTK2 map viewer. more>>
MMap is a GTK2 map viewer. MMap project supports Blue Marble, Land Sat 7, Watchizu, SRTM. You can show a part of World Wind data with OpenGL 3D graphics.
It supports (a part of) these maps:
- Watchizu
- Blue Marble
- Land Sat 7
- SRTM
== WARNING ==
MMap+ stores map data in ~/.mmap/ .
Its so huge.
<<lessIt supports (a part of) these maps:
- Watchizu
- Blue Marble
- Land Sat 7
- SRTM
== WARNING ==
MMap+ stores map data in ~/.mmap/ .
Its so huge.
Download (0.31MB)
Added: 2006-08-30 License: GPL (GNU General Public License) Price:
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