SoFiA 2 has been upgraded to v2.6.0
HEASoft has been upgraded to v6.35, and CIAO to v4.17.
STILTS and TOPCAT have been updated to releases 3.5-2 and 4.10-3 respectively.
Visual Studio Code has been updated to version 1.97.2
Dolphot v2.0 has been installed.
We have published the October-2024 issue of our ITNews bulletin, with useful tips on the usage of WiFi connections and on the safe handling of external disks.
The Intel oneApi suite has been updated to v24.2.1, while the NVIDIA HPC Software Development Kit has been updated to v24.9.
Several packages have been updated: Zotero to v7.0.5; Visual Studio Core to v1.93.1; PyCharm to v2024.2.1; Mendeley to v2.122.0; Obsidian to v1.6.7.
HEASoft has been updated to release 6.34.
STILTS and TOPCAT have been updated to releases 3.5 and 4.10 respectively.
We have published the August-2024 issue of our ITNews bulletin. Of special interest are the statistics on the usage of our burros through Slurm, of LaPalma and of HTCondor, alongside with a graphs depicting the usage of IDL floating license since 2013.
Gnuastro has been upgraded to version 0.23 on our Ubuntu 22.04 desktops and burros. To use it, please load first the corresponding module: module load gnuastro/0.23 See the GNU Astronomy Utilities NEWS for a list of changes with respect to the previous version.
We have published the May-2024 issue of our ITNews bulletin. Of special interest are the implementation of the CernIE filesystem on laptops, and the efficiency statistics on the usage of our Linux server through Slurm.
HEASoft has been upgraded to version 6.33.2 on our Ubuntu 22.04 desktops and burros. To use it, please load first the corresponding module: module load heasoft/6.33.2 See the Release Notes for a list of changes with respect to the previous version.
CIAO has been upgraded to version 4.16 on our Ubuntu 22.04 desktops and burros. See the Release Notes for detailed information on this release.
Gnuastro has been upgraded to version 0.22 on our Ubuntu 22.04 desktops and burros. To use it, please load first the corresponding module: module load gnuastro/0.22 See the GNU Astronomy Utilities NEWS for a list of changes with respect to the previous version.
HEASoft has been upgraded to version 6.33 on our Ubuntu 22.04 desktops and burros. To use it, please load first the corresponding module: module load heasoft/6.33 See the Release Notes for a list of changes with respect to the previous version.
The latest issue of our ITNews series, March 2024, has been published.
The latest version of CASUTools,
1.0.41, has been installed on our Ubuntu 22.04 machines. Likewise,
Cloudy has been updated to version C23.01.
To use them, please load first the respective modulefiles:
module load casutools/1.0.41
module load cloudy/23.01
IDL has been upgraded to v9.0 on our Ubuntu 22.04 desktops and burros. To check what's new in IDL 9.0, please read the Release Notes
HTCondor in all Ubuntu 22.04 machines has been upgraded now to
version 23.0.4,
released on February 8th.
This version adds a couple of new features and fixes a number of bugs.
[Of particular interest to us is: "Restore condor keyboard monitoring that was broken since HTCondor 23.0.0"].
The machines with Ubuntu 18.04 are still on version 10.0.3, as
"Ubuntu 18.04 (Bionic Beaver) is no longer supported, since its end of life is
April 30th, 2023."