[Octopus-devel] Screenshots, demo and possible trunk destabilization

[Angel Rubio Secades-]

                      San Sebastian/Donostia, Thursday September 14, 2006

thanks, let's see next week how all goes, we need to pursue the project...
Angel
============================================================================
Dr. Angel Rubio
Dpto. Fisica de Materiales, Facultad de Quimicas  Phone: +34-943018292
U. Pais Vasco,  Centro Mixto CSIC-UPV/EHU and     Fax  : +34-943015600
Donostia International Physics Center (DIPC)      Mail : arubio at sc.ehu.es
Apdo. 1072, 20018 San Sebastian/Donostia. Spain   http://dipc.ehu.es/arubio
============================================================================

On Thu, 14 Sep 2006, Axel Thimm wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've uploaded some screenshots of densities of Na2 and benzene. Next
> week Miguel will report on octopus in the nanoquanta meeting and this
> will include a 5-10 minutes GUI demo - the Na2/benzene screenshots are
> from the preparation of this demo. Please suggest anything that makes
> sense to add to the demo of 3D models. Miguel and I will also add
> SiH4.
>
>     http://www.tddft.org/programs/octopus/wiki/index.php/Screenshots
>
> (The mediawiki install seems to have troubles, some of the screenshots
> were considered as text/plain and mediawiki complained about malicious
> code, I had to trun off mime checking which is documented as a
> security hazard - as long as only registered accounts have upload
> rights the issue is contained. I also had to chown the images dir to
> allow uploads, it was root:root)
>
> The GUI parts to run these 3D parts are quite demanding on software
> dependencies. One needs at least netcdf 3.6.2, Numeric 23.8,
> ScientificPython, vtk and vtk-python. Possibly also gtkglarea. I have
> put all missing bits together for RHEL and FC in ATrpms.
>
> I'll be commiting some larger changes to the trunk that may break
> it. Since we have a stable branch this shouldn't be an issue, I
> hope. Most breakage will occur at python level anyway, but there are
> some parts that are changed in netcdf detection that may affect other
> parts.
>
> (Side note: Looks like some fortran compilers automatically check
> /usr/include for use statements and others need it explicitly)
> -- 
> Axel.Thimm at physik.fu-berlin.de
>