Notes from Dan’s work at CEMAC

Unlike the interactive Graphical User Interface, there is also a CLI for use on headless machines or HPC clusters, when local memory…

Just some notes to get a user started.

Notes on how to set up an interactive GPU session for computation on the Leeds System.

Sometimes we require multiple modules all of which communicate using the I2C channel. In this post, we discuss how to do exactly that…

You have a suite you wish to run, but need to constrain it such that it can run on your allocated queues — this guide explains how to…

Various two-factor authentication sites now require the use of an RSA key. For me, it is needed to log into the MONSooN supercomputer…

In a sensor network, the ability to establish a connection and transfer data when within range of a router is a useful one. There are…

In some cases, you may not have a GPS module available but will still want to find out your current location. We are able to do this using…

A guide to running the Unified Model or the UKCA on MONSooN.

Dr Hook (no not the 1960s rock band!) is the met office’s profiling tool. In this post, we describe the general setup of this and how to…

Instructions on how to wire the RPi Sensor. This process takes ~2h for a first attempt. These are generic instructions related to the Born…

To clone and copy suites, you must first cache your MO password.

So far I have discovered the met office uses three different usernames

How to enable Bluetooth visibility and pair from the boot.

A quick loaddown on how to ssh tunnel in Unix

A quick start guide for setting up the OPC-R1 sensors for testing

When on a new machine it is important to know its size and computational abilities. This is especially important in the case of higher…

For reloading simple scripts, we can run them with the IpyReload package each time a file is changed.

Sometimes an open file, in a zombie process can prevent future write operations. For this reason, we read all processes holding a file…

You have a Python project and want to generate simple instructions on how users are expected to use it. In addition to a number of…

When working remotely on external machines, it is common to connect to these through the secure shell (ssh) protocol. Often this comes in…

If you have an operating system, which you wish to duplicate or backup, this can be done using the Linux terminal.

In using a raspberry pi zero, you are limited on USB ports. Instead of having to always have a USB hub connected to the device, you may…

Weather fronts are used within synoptic charts to depict changes in the composition of the atmosphere. This mark changes between two air…