Technical resources for members of the Stratt Group

This page has not been updated since I left Brown in 2019. What follows is a compilation of technical and scientific resources for members of the Stratt Group or anyone else who finds them useful.

Group Meeting Notes

Working with Ted (our cluster)

• Using modern (ca. 2016) compilers
  Add the contents of this file to your .bash_profile.
• Using the Queuing System (.pdf, .tex)
  Array Job example in C (sge_task_id_test.c)
• Man page for Sun Grid Engine submissions (.pdf)
  Generated with: user@ted % man -t submit | ps2pdf - - > submit.pdf

Programming

• Scientific Programming with a Programmer's Tools (.pdf, .tex)
  Example Makefile (Makefile.example)
• C Header File Guidelines (.pdf)
  From David Kieras' course at the University of Michigan

Data Visualization Recommendations

• Gnuplot, surely better for 3D plots, but has plenty of overlap with Matplotlib. See gnuplotting.org for help with making publication quality graphics.
  • A complete example script with data.
• Matplotlib (check out the gallery tab) and Numpy with Python (see enthought.com if you use Widows/OS X)
  
  • A complete example program (hist)
  • A numpy tip sheet (numpy.pdf) [source]
• Color Brewer 2.0 for colormaps. To deal with much colorblindness: assume red=green!