ECE Dept. Software

UBCD Drive clone and Resize Tests - Oct 2016

UBCD can clone and resize Win 7 and Win 10. Note that Win 10 by default has 3 partitions.
Windows Dynamic Drive - Win 7: It is intolerant of any bad sectors on the master drive.
Windows Dynamic Drive - Win 7: Can't clone with Clonezilla or WinPE image and secondary drive isn't bootable.
The secondary dynamic drive is bootable by itself.
Dynamic Drives can not be cloned or resized with UBCD
Errors with Dynamic drives (even the setup) seem to be silent unless you look at the drive configuration

Wierd Stuff

IP blocks for Asia http://www.okean.com/asianspamblocks.html
Sept 2016 - Netflix and Hoopla on Linux. Using Firefox install Pipelight http://pipelight.net You may need to install the Agent Switcher plugin for Firefox to use "IE8" agent to get Netflix to work. I had to enable silverlight a few times to get it to work - try following the instructions once and log off and log on again.

Core Maintance Software

SuperMicro BIOS upgrade - Use Rufus to make a bootable usb key with FreeDOS
HP Download Manager - Firmware updates for HP printers
Monitor Test Pattern Generator: http://www.idk-tech.com/webvg/index2.html
Compile Altera Libraries for Modelsim PE. This is from https://smilingspider.wordpress.com/2013/01/27/tools-hell-part-i-setting-up-modelsim-with-alteras-libraries-under-win-7-quartus-ii-ver-9-x-and-up/
Scripts are in the /home/ece327/altera-* directories

Customized VMs (Virtual Machines)

ECEUbuntu - XUbuntu 16.10 install for Vagrant and Dart - ECE 453 and SE 465 - Jan 2017
Win10 Edu 32-bit - VirtualBox based upon Nexus image for ECE 493 to run Best PLL (16-bit) for Bosco - Jan 2017

Manual - Customized Software Installs - May 2018

ETap 22.5.0 as before. If there are issues: 1) users should run C:\Software\ETAP2250\other\CleanUpLocalDB.cmd and ETAPFixToolbars.cmd from the same directory. If there is an 80030003 file open error then check the users TEMP directory to be sure it exists and is writable. Users were also given full write perms to the installed ETap directory - 2023-Oct-13
Acselerator 7.1.2.2 was installed on all machines in CPH-1333 to replace SEL 6.11.1.3 - 2023-March-6
Keysight ADS 2021 U2 manually installed on ece-public* (E2-2360/2362) replacing ADS 2015 - 28-Sept-2022
SpectraSuite Drivers manually install local OceanOptics drivers - USB4000 works for our "flame" spectrometers - every Windows feature update requires a reinstall AND it must be done for each USB port to be used!!
Keysight VSA 17.2 for the microwave lab. Version 20.20 is on the file share, but 17.2 89600 VSA software is installed and working.
Keil uVision 5 for Tiva. The Pack Installer to install support for various boards is under Project -> Manage -> Pack Installer
Rossi NEClean2 computer - NI Visa & PyVISA installed - 4-2018
CPH-3682 - custom Win 7 image for the NI RIO software - W 2015
Microwave Lab VSA 20.20, SystemView 2015, ADS2015, ME1000 software, Dec 2015 - the windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file must have the network analyzer name and IP, VSA license is tricky - import the licence and then transfer?? it to the local machine??
Motors Lab - ETap Database issue can strike users: Double click to run the file 'CleanUpLocalDB.cmd' located at Folder C:\ETAP 1800\Other\CleanUpLocalDB.cmd
Motors Lab - ETap 16.0 for Windows 10 as previous versions fails to startup properly - Auth Users must be given modify perms in C:\Software\ETap1600 to prevent a crash at boot time - restricted users and administrator! also project files must be on the hard drive as \\ecfile1, \\eceServ, \\ieee shares did not work also
SEL Relays The Event Viewer doesn't work with Windows 10 release 20H2 or 2004 and we are trying SEL-5030 6.11.1.3 version that was released 2022-01-25
Motors Lab - SEL Relays Install Lucas Nulle SCADA designer, SEL Compass and AcSELerator Software - SEL devices are 192.168.168.10, ..11, Nexus host 192.168.168.5 Also 192.168.168.2 is used for what??
Prolific driver must be set to i-745x

Manual - Customized Software Installs - Obsolete

CPH-3682 - custom Win 7 image for the NI RIO software - W 2015
Microwave Lab VSA 20.20, SystemView 2015, ADS2015, ME1000 software, Dec 2015 - the windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file must have the network analyzer name and IP, VSA license is tricky - import the licence and then transfer?? it to the local machine??
Agilent ENA's - add registry keys to auto-login. Regedit and find HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Winlogon add DefaultPassword, set AutoAdminLogon to 1, set DefaultUserName to ENA?? - Jan 2014
E2-2364 - Asus Nexus 7 Devel Kit with ADB driver. May 2013
QNC-2611 - Use the regular Intel Win 7 Ent. install and then add Agilent I/O Libs. Ocean Optics, MicroTec, Agilent DataCapture, Agilent SMU software are installed by GPO and Tuque.
E2-3342 - license for VSA on eceLic.uwaterloo.ca, http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pc-1905089/89600-vsa-software?&cc=CA&lc=eng VSA software, ADS (Tuque push), Connection Manager (runs on 32-bit only - Win XP only), Agilent I/O Libraries
E2-3342/3344/3346/3347 - DataStudio I/O Libraries (IOLibSuite_16_2_15823.exe), DataCapture0400_15Feb2012.exe After install the IOLibrary remove the 6 firewall rules created to allow access to the world. After installing DataCapture copy the Start Menu links from the administrator account to AllUsers (May 2012). To use select Instrument type Agilent 2000 series, then select USB I/O and click ok - it should remember this.
Public Computers - ETap+license - must be installed before joining to Nexus (Version 7.1.0 can be installed after joining to Nexus)
EagleCad+license - install after Nexus
MENG Lab ETAP software + license before joining to Nexus
PSCad (S09) manually installed at any time.
FYDP Lab - EagleCad+license
PicProg for the PIC programmers - BEFORE joining to Nexus
Motors Lab - ETap 16.0 for Windows 10 as previous versions fails to startup properly - Auth Users must be given modify perms in C:\Software\ETap1600 to prevent a crash at boot time - restricted users and administrator! also project files must be on the hard drive as \\ecfile1, \\eceServ, \\ieee shares did not work also files from ETap 16 can't be used in ETap 14
Motors Lab - ETap 14.1 - open up permissions in the install directory, each user must be given the activation code and license server name
LVDam EMS (LabVolt) + drivers after Nexus install for 4-channel DAI (9063) or 3-channel (9062-10)
Note: Setup defaults for 8960 connected ones via: Data Acq (right) -> Analog Input ->
Torque to 8960nm
Speed to 8960-1x
Then Tools -> Set Config as Default
SEL Relays - Install Lucas Nulle SCADA designer, SEL Compass and AcSELerator Software - SEL devices are 192.168.168.10, ..11, Nexus host 192.168.168.5 Also 192.168.168.2 is used for what??

Nexus Ports

The following ports are automatically enabled on all ECE Nexus and Linux computers. Note that UDP from the wireless address space (172.x.y.z) is unlikely to connect to 129.97.x.y address space due to the way the wireless access works.

Port	Protocol	IP Range	Comment
10 000 to 10 010	TCP and UDP	129.97/16	ECE 355
10 000 to 11 000 ON LINUX	TCP and UDP	129.97/16, 172/8, 10/8	ECE 355
22 222	UDP	129.97/16	SIP Video
22 224	UDP	129.97/16	SIP Audio
22 232	UDP	129.97.8/24	Sip local video
22 234	UDP	129.97.8/24	Sip local audio
4000	UDP	129.97/16	SIP setup??
5060	UDP	129.97/16	SIP basic audio
5061	UDP	129.97/16	SIP messages

Echo Request	UDP	all internet	Ping Service

UserAppSVC.exe	Any	129.97.56/24	UserApp Security Tracking
NtTsyslog.exe	Any	129.97.56/24	Syslogging of security and Windows Messages

Software List

The following is a list of software which I've installed.
If you have any questions contact me, Eric, by visiting me in E2-2357 or email at praetzel@uwaterloo

Special Software Installs

This software is manually installed or configured:

Various software packages on Ubuntu like glibc-doc glibc-doc-reference for ECE 252 - 8-Mar-2019
Coverity Analysis license on eceTesla0/1/2/3 and eceUbuntu1 update - it took one day for the license to actually be generated 8-Mar-2019
Coverity Platform 2018.12 Jan 2019 web interface ecetesla0:8080 Does it start wtih a server reboot? or do I have to put it into /etc/rc.d/rc.local /home/coverity/cov-platform-8.0.1/bin/cov-start-im
Coverity Analysis 2018.12 Jan 2019 web interface ecetesla0:8080
The software is installed locally in /opt/cov-analysis-linux64-2018.12 To install the license run /opt/cov-analysis-linux64-2018.12/bin/cov-wizard and it auto-detects compilers for users.
Run /opt-src/Excluded/Coverity-Jan2019/cov-generate-hostid-linux64-2018.12 to get the host ID for the license. Then import the new license file - other configs???? save it where???

ECE 356 Yelp database in mySQL - 6G user space in /home and 11G in mySQL needed per user.

SELECT
TABLE_SCHEMA  AS `Database`,
SUM((data_length + index_length) / (1024 * 1024)) AS `Database_Size`
FROM information_schema.TABLES
GROUP BY table_schema
ORDER BY `Database_Size` DESC;

+--------------------+---------------+
| Database           | Database_Size |
+--------------------+---------------+
| yelp_db            |    10944.2970 |
| mysql              |        2.4268 |
| information_schema |        0.1560 |
| ece356db_lab1      |        0.0624 |
| sys                |        0.0156 |
| ece356db_zcwen     |        0.0156 |
| performance_schema |        0.0000 |
+--------------------+---------------+

Coverity Analysis 2018.12 Feb 2019 web interface eceTesla0:8080
The software is installed locally in /opt/cov-analysis* To install the license run /opt/cov-an*/bin/cov-wizard
Ocean Optics USB2000+ modules require a manual install of the driver - and confirming it. The USB2000+ driver does not work - manually choose the USB2000 driver (originally from the C:\Program Files\OceanOptics\... directory)
Keysight/Agilent SystemVue 2013 in the microwave lab. I couldn't bash it to get a scripted install to work. Setup the environment var SYSTEMVUE_LICENSE_FILE to be 7851@cmcstc - Jan 2015
SCADA (high voltage relay system) - I've been unable to get it to run, even for the Admin on Win 7, before it's joined to the domain and with the firewall open - Aug 2013
Coverity Analysis 8.7.1 Jan 2018 web interface ecelinux1:8080
The software is installed locally in /usr/local/cov-analysis* To install the license run bin/cov-wizard and import the new license file
Coverity Platform 8.0.0 March 2017 web interface ecelinux1:8080
The software is run from /home/coverity so all data is kept on eceServ
Coverity Analysis 8.1 - un-tgz the cov-analysis-linux64-8.7.1.tar file on the file server, change ownership to root:users, on each server cp -a the directory into /usr/local and then copy the license file,
run setup.sh to setup gcc and java and install the license via bin/cov-wizard - March 2017
Coverity Analysis 7.0.x Just untar the program on the file server and then run "cov-analysis.../bin/cov-configure --java" and repeat for --gcc Edit bin/license.config be sbe sure it's pointing at the server and on the license server make sure to have "VENDOR covlicd PORT=xxxxx" to hard code the port used
What I don't yet know is how to tie Analysis into Platform via ports for the database.
Update the license file cov-anal.../bin/license* to be port 26000 to match license server,
COPY the cov-analysis software to /usr/local and run bin/cov-wizard as administrator on EACH server once - Feb 21, 2014
Jan 2016 - local install in /opt/local for 8.0.0 documentation /usr/loca/cov-analysis-linux64-8.0.0/doc/en/index.html
Coverity Platform - LDAP setup - ldap.nexus.uwaterloo.ca, port 389, Base DN dc=uwaterloo,dc=ca not/ Name displayName, Surname Attrib. sn, Email Attr mail, unzip the provided license file and upload it via the web interface ecelinux5:8088
The software is run from /opt-src so all data is kept on eceServ
ETap 11.1.0 is now automatically installed via Tuque - Nov 2012
ETap 6.0 is 3.1G - removal started Jan 2010, deploying ETap 7.1.0 (6.2G)
ETap 5.5.6 - E2-2360 public computers ECE-PUBLIC11 .. ECE-PUBLIC15
MEng lab - first row of the computers, the 2 on the right as you enter.
EagleCad 3.5 - E2-2360, E2-2362 public computers
E2-3339 FYDP room
Asian Lanugage character support for Windows XP. This is included on all computers re-installed since December 2007.

Software Hints

Windows 10 1709 release disables public Samba shares. Update the registry key: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\LanmanWorkstation\Parameters] AllowInsecureGuestAuth =dword:1 Feb 2018 - some errors upgrading to 1709 include:

Feb 14 12:14:44 ECE-CIRCUITS8.NEXUS.UWATERLOO.CA NT:  The search service has detected corrupted data files in the index {id=2501}. The service will attempt to automatically correct this problem by rebuilding the index.  Context: Windows Application  Details: The content index catalog is corrupt.   0xc0041801 (0xc0041801)

Feb 14 12:14:55 ECE-CIRCUITS8.NEXUS.UWATERLOO.CA NT:  The application cannot be initialized.  Context: Windows Application  Details: The content index data on disk is for the wrong version.  (HRESULT : 0xc0041821) (0xc0041821)

Feb 14 12:14:55 ECE-CIRCUITS8.NEXUS.UWATERLOO.CA NT:  The index cannot be initialized.  Details: The content index data on disk is for the wrong version.  (HRESULT : 0xc0041821) (0xc0041821)

Feb 14 12:15:25 ECE-CIRCUITS8.NEXUS.UWATERLOO.CA NT:  The Windows Search Service is starting up and attempting to remove the old search index {Reason: Index Corruption}.

Getting a System shell on Win 10: use from the pstools psexec -i -s -d CMD and verify with whoami /user
MultiSim 11 licensing issue. Some users are prompted for licensing.Simply apply for the license online, provide a name, untick the box for further info and peck you way thru a few windows and the University license will be applied and work.
Outlook 2007 issues. If MS Office has been installed without Outlook adding outlook requires logging in as admin and fully removing all Office packages and then using GPOTool to force a re-install of the full Office package.
If Outlook still doesn't start try: Outlook.exe \RESTARTNAVPANE
Hibernate only works on about 80% of the M2NPV-VM motherboards with Win XP. In those cases the system hibernates; but doesn't power down and immediately powers back up. Trying another hibernate sometimes works. So all hibernate scripts are followed by a shutdown script. Jan 2010
Windows XP automatic hibernate after 1 hour of inactivity doesn't work well as the networked machine is never quite for an hour and never shuts down. Jan 2010
Vista and Win 7 issues with file server: run secpol.msc thenclick on Local Policies then Security Options Find Network Security: LAN Manager authentication level and open it. Change the default value NTVLM2 responses only to LM and NTLM - use NTLMV@ session security if negotiated
Default Web Browser can be set with Start -> Programs -> Internet Tools -> Utilities -> DefaultBrowser

EngTerm uses temp. licenses and after 64 uses you have to reset your local license:

Using "regedit", expert the following Registry Key to a file for backup:-

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLincensing

Then delete"

1.  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing\HardwareID\ClientHWID

2.  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\MSLicensing\Store\LICENSE000

To flip a http request to https I use this in .htaccess (Jan 2007): RewriteEngine On RewriteCond %{SERVER_PORT} =80 RewriteRule (.*) https://sciborg.uwaterloo.ca%{REQUEST_URI} [R=301,L]
GhostView, GhostScript, GSView - Errors can often be fixed by clicking on Options and then Easy Configure Then choose one of the available versions, click OK.
Cygwin X11 - Start Cygwin then enter the command "ssh -X userID@server_name"
Or to us X11
start XMing (under internet tools)
start putty and enter the server name, click on SSH, click on X11 and tick the box to enable X11 forwarding. Click on enter.
To install scheduled task on Nexus:
SCHTASKS /Create /TN sysctl /RU SYSTEM /ST 23:59:59 /SC DAILY /TR c:\nexus\scripts\sysctl.cmd

In Firefox goto the URL line and type: about:config
scroll down to, browser.cache.disk.parent_directory
and see if it is set to C:\temp.

If it is missing or set incorrectly fix it.

We preset these variables in a login script (q:\gen\etc\winlogon.cmd)
that runs both firefox and thunderbird with the -CreateProfile "%USERID%
N:\software\firefox" or "%USERID% N:\mail\thunderbird" options.

In C:\Documents and settings\%USERID% there should be very little for
firefox and thunderbird if everything is set correctly, however, any
downloaded themes, or plugins are possibly added there.

Emailing a class within ECE : ece_241@ecemail.uwaterloo.ca
To install fonts under Nexus put the TTF files into a directory N:\FONTS
Netscape Profile problems: Q:\gen\etc\winlogon.cmd automatically creates a Netscape profile in N:\netscape
Eudora dies with "Cannot start Eudora the first time with attachments"
Use the command "C:\Program Files\Qualcomm\Eudora\Eudora.exe" N:\mail n:\mail\eudora.ini as was done in q:\gen\etc\winlogon.cmd
Ad-Aware for finding spyware. LavaSoftUSA.com
Putty for SSH tunneling. Use putty - setup tunneling for the ports necessary.
IE: set mail program for SMTP server 127.0.0.0 and Putty tunnel as ssh to an on-campus server with "Source Port 25" to Dest "ecemail.uwaterloo.ca:25"
When using Horde to send email you can email groups with: uw.ece.ece318@news
Changing the default printer can be done with this reg key (XP)
[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows] "Device"="E2-3344-1,winspool,Ne00:"
PSim license server SW update: http://www.ealaddin.com/support/hardlock/downloads1.asp

Linux Logins

zgrep -c "sshd.*Accepted password" from messages - weekly

Data 2018 to current - weekly totals - /504 for interval average
2
148
1448
6477
853
181
80
1173
829
763
409
32
134
2163
10
6
16
14
13
8
28
17
17
19
7
12
17
25
13
6
6
0
2
0
12
1
14
6
11
39
16
60
177
148
445
388
316
1257
1144
122
113
11
72
99
1322
1814
2664
3381
8928
886
848
6397
16788
4684
8011
13085
802
190
150
60
854
2070
6158
5815
4433
8462
653
4276
14127
5288
14055
4462
4170
920
336
52
68
244
2763
9807
5418
7010
3523
1623
3021
10038
10769
10928
6414
7959
2943
284
308
104
170
1261
8348
11271
18387
9509
16226
1287
1657
12852
22395
5811
10804
12478
1820
14653
3084
549
489
2626
7334
8750
9949
9918
17414
12652

Linux Software Inventory by Course (July 2020)

ece150 : gcc [452 F2019, 392 F2018]
ece222 : RISC-V cross-compiler [501 WF2019, 511 WF2018]
ece250 : c++ [382 WF2019, 413 WF2018
ece252 : c++ [300 SF2019, - 2018]
ece320 : Verilator 4.210 [F2023]
ece327 : Verilator 5+ [S2023]
ece327 : Quartus 15.1, ModelSim, Mentor Precision [281 WS2019, 268 WS2018]
ece327 : Xilinx Vivado [included above]
ece351 : eclipse, Java [271 WS2019, 271 WS2018]
se350 : gcc [120 W2019, 109 W2018]
ece356 : database - 6GB per user F2017 [295 WF2019, 259 WF2018]
ece358 : c++, Java, Python [418 WSF2019, 339 WSF2018]
ece453/se465 : Coverity (Lin Tan & Irene) [130 W2019, 136 W2018]
ece433 : Silvaco TCad [4 S2019, 0 2018]
ece455 : Cadence [26 S2020, 49 S2019, 50 S2018]
ece454 : Apache Thrift [205 S2019, 181 S2018]
ece456 : Apache Spark [0 2019, 0 2018 - correct course?]
ece459 : OpenCL, Cuda, llvn [288 W2019, 246 W2018]
ece493? : Quantum Simulation (Bosco Leung) [235 WS 2019, 110 W2018]
ece650 : c++ [142 F2019, 108 F2018]

Unix Installs (from Sanjay June 2007)

Log Analysis

Simple Event Correlator http://sourceforge.net/projects/simple-evcorr/ on syslog server Info: http://simple-evcorr.sourceforge.net/ (Jan 2010)
Splunk http://www.splunk.com/download is highly recommended but apparently expensive. (Jan 2010)
AWStats - better than Webalizer? (Feb 2010) - Default is analysis of Apache only
USELESSperl-Log-Report (from DAG) - more comprehensive than AWStats - http://download.logreport.org/pub/current/doc/user-manual/ch03.html#sect:lire-configuration
Lire http://yum.jardiknas.org/centos/extras/5/i386/lire-2.0.2-4.noarch.rpm - requires a truckload of other perl modules but installed on Centos 5.4 32bit

Software_Name	Software_Version	ECE_Courses	General Description

ComSol MultiPhysics: NE241 Fall - 20 users at a time, ECE 375 Winter/Fall 13 users at a time, NE454B Fall ~50 students

Silvaco TCad  ECE 433, 730  W2016, W2017

C++11 gcc 4.7+ on Linux - eceUbuntu for ECE 453 March 2015  gcc 4.1.2 is on CentOS 5/6 - far too old

AMANDA	2.5.0		
BOUML	2.29	ECE251,ECE355	
Dave's ColdFire Emulator	0.3.2	ECE354	
Data Display Debugger (ddd)	3.3.11	ECE355	
Doxygen	1.4.4		
Electric + SFS	7.00	4th Year Projects	C version of Electric VLSI CAD Package
Electric / Java	8.03	4th Year Projects	Java version of Electric VLSI CAD Package
FireFox	1.5		FireFox Web Browser
GCC for SPARC Systems	4.01	ECE251,ECE355	GCC optimized for Sun SPARC processors with Sun Forte backend code generator
GCC for ColdFire 5307	3.4.6	ECE354	GCC cross compiler
Mtx	1.2.18		Magnetic Tape eXecutive utility used to control tape drive
MySQL			
Opera	8.50		Opera Web Browser
Scons	0.96.1		
SmartMon Tools	5.33		
Sonnet 10.52		ECE 471(?)	
STAR	1.4.3		Super TAR tape backup software
Xcircuit	3.4.26	ECE241	There are drawing programs, and there are schematic capture programs. All schematic capture programs will produce output for inclusion in publications. However, these programs have different goals, and it shows. Rarely is the output of a schematic capture program really suitable for publication; often it is not even readable, or cannot be scaled. Engineers who really want to have a useful schematic drawing of a circuit usually redraw the circuit in a general drawing program, which can be both tedious and prone to introducing new errors.
NG-SPICE		ECE241	SPICE 3F5 Simulation Engine
KJ Waves		ECE241	SPICE GUI / Front End
OpenOffice	2.2		Office Productivity Application Suite

Tweaks

2023 June 28 - tweaked startup scripts for Mentor Calibre 2022.4_37 as it gives an error "Calibre DRC error: RVE socket server number has not been initialized". The fix is to define the port - however this limits the machine to only a single user??? running Calibre??
```
# To fix the calibre rve socket error - Eric P - this limits Calibre to one user per machine!?
set MGC_CALIBRE_LAYOUT_SERVER=$HOSTNAME:91829
		
```

9 Jan 2023 - updated GCC & GFortran on RHEL 7 (banff)

install centos-release-scl-rh
yum install devtoolset-7-gcc devtoolset-7-gcc-c++
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 gcc-4.9 /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin/gcc 10
gcc --version
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc-4.9 gcc-4.9 /opt/rh/devtoolset-7/root/usr/bin/gcc 10
gfortran --version

10 November 2021 - added AuthMan to Amir's servers as well as the U/G cluster of Ubuntu for management of ssh keys. https://uwaterloo.ca/information-systems-technology/services/ssh-authman
20 June 2018 - upgraded eceServ1 from Samba 3.6 to Samba 4.2
Winter 2018 - decreased limits on eceLinux* machines

Nov 15, 2015 - increase POSIX message queues from 10 to 100:

echo 100 > /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/msg_max
echo 512 > /proc/sys/fs/mqueue/queues_max

July 7, 2015 - an openssl update broke TLS on eceMail due to the 512 bit key being now considered insecure. the fix is nicely covered here: http://serverfault.com/questions/700655/sendmail-rejecting-some-connections-with-handshake-failure-ssl-alert-number-40

June 2, 2015 - tweaked sendmail.mc on mail server by adding the following lines to remove insecure TLS options used by LogJam attack:

LOCAL_CONFIG
O CipherList=HIGH
O CipherList=ALL:!ADH:!NULL:!EXPORT56:RC4+RSA:+HIGH:+MEDIUM:-LOW:+SSLv3:+TLSv1:-SSLv2:-EXP:-eNULL

although some recommended the following:

LOCAL_CONFIG
O CipherList=HIGH
O ServerSSLOptions=+SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 +SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3 +SSL_OP_CIPHER_SERVER_PREFERENCE
O ClientSSLOptions=+SSL_OP_NO_SSLv2 +SSL_OP_NO_SSLv3

Test the settings with: nmap --script ssl-enum-ciphers -p 465 server_name

Feb 26, 2015 - upgraded ieee from Samba3 to Samba4. security=share is depreciated and I had to use:
```
security = user
map to guest = Bad User
```
Removing Samba3 was done with "yum erase samba samba-common" although many packages were removed and not re-installed.
Feb 19, 2015 - chmod o-rx for /usr/bin/make on eceWeb and eceLinux4

Cadence Calibre Tweak

To fix Cadence Calibre to start on our Scientific Linux machines - edit /CMC/tools/mentor/aoi_cal_2022.4_37.20/pkgs/icv_calenv/pvt/calibre_host_info and add "scientific|" into the test so that it's equivalent to redhat in the OS_VENDOR assignment - Oct 2023

Cadence and Linux Installs

OSS Cad for Yosys Download from https://github.com/YosysHQ/oss-cad-suite-build/releases and untar in /opt-src/oss-cad-suite - 2024 Nov 27

EMX Getting EMX working (it shows up in Layout editor - does it work??:

	Into /CMC/kits/TowerSBC18/HOTCODE/amslibs/cds_default/etc/templates/rds_emxconfig.il add:
EMX_interface_path = "/CMC/tools/cadence/EMX23.10.000_lnx86/share/emx/virtuoso_ui/emxinterface"
;EMX_EMX_opts=" "               ; without this it fails since it's undefined
EMX_path="/CMC/tools/cadence/EMX23.10.000_lnx86/bin"
RDS_EMX_DEVEL_SETUP=nil		; helpful??
; Defined this for the file: /CMC/kits/TowerSBC18/HOTCODE/techs/sbc18he5pca/emx/v1p00/sbc18he5pca_emxconfig.il
EMX_combined_opts=" "
EMX_ps_viewer=" "
EMX_remote_machine=" "

EMPro on RHEL 8 - create ~/plugins/qt; ln -s /CMC/tools/keysight/EMPro2023/linux_x86_64/bin/plugins/qt ~/plugins/qt/platforms - 2024 April
Innovus on Ubuntu 20.04 dpkg --install multiarch-support_2.27-3ubuntu1.6_amd64.deb /opt-src/Excluded/Ubuntu-Cadence/libxp6_1.0.2-2_amd64.deb from /opt-src/Excluded/Ubuntu-Cadence - 2024 March
Innovus source /CMC/scripts/cadence.innovus21.15.000.csh - Ubuntu 18.04 needs libmotif-dev and RHEL 8 needs yum install motif - 2024 March
libpng12.so.0 on Ubuntu 20.04 for Innovus : add-apt-repository ppa:linuxuprising/libpng12; apt update; apt install libpng12-0 - 2024 March

Linux Installs

GCC 10.5 on Ubuntu 20.04 2024 June 3

apt install gcc-10 g++-10 cpp-10
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/gcc gcc /usr/bin/gcc-10 100 --slave /usr/bin/g++ g++ /usr/bin/g++-10 --slave /usr/bin/gcov gcov /usr/bin/gcov-10

Mentor Calibre AOI hack aoi_cal_2018.2_52.40 version has to be hacked to run on newer CPUs where the AOJ release would be selected. Edit /CMC/tools/mentor/aoi_cal_2018.2_52.40/bin/calibre_vco and comment out the error_exit 'Invalid operating...' and replace it with VCO=aoi on line 112 - Mar 2024
Rust 1.76 downloaded rust-1.76.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu and unpacked into /opt-src/Excluded/rust... and ran the installer to put it into /usr/local/bin to replace the previous 1.67 version - Mar 2024
Python 3.12 from DeadSnakes : add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa -y; apt update; apt install python3.12 - Feb 2024
Verilator 5.020 from /opt-src/Excluded/verilator, pull, select v5.020 and build and then install on each machine - Jan 2024
Xilinx Vitis 2022.1 Java Commons Patch from https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/000034595?language=en_US they state Starting with version 2022.1, Vivado and Vitis tools ship with the commons-text library version 1.9. This library is included in the scope of CVE-2022-42889, however the Vivado and Vitis tools do not use the StringSubstituor API and are therefore we believe these tools are not affected by this vulnerability. Given our current understanding and assessment, we believe there is no risk to Vivado and Vitis tools from this CVE.
- so I deleted the file /opt/Xilinx/Vitis/2022.1/vitisng-server/lib/commons-text-1.9.jar - Jan 2024
Xilinx Vitis 2021.1 Java Log4j Patch from https://support.xilinx.com/s/article/76957?language=en_US - Jan 2024
Kafka 3.6 for Scala 2.13 in /opt/kafka - simple untar - replace older version with log4j issue - https://kafka.apache.org/downloads https://scala-lang.org/download/ - Dec 2023
R from Ubuntu 20.04 repo called r-base and apt-get install python3-sklearn python3-sklearn-lib for scilearn - 2023-Dec-1

Gcc 8.3.1 on iccad* machines running Sci Linux 7:

yum install yum-conf-softwarecollections
yum install devtoolset-8

   located in /opt/rh/... and use it with:

scl enable devtoolset-8 bash

Matlab 2023A and remove 2021A from /opt/Matlab* - 2023-Oct-17
inotify-tools, wdiff Oct 2023
Silvaco TCad, ece493-QED, FreePDK45, Sonnet13, protobuf-2.4.1, glassfish-3.1.1, protobuf-2.4.1, moss moved to Excluded/Obsolete - Aug 2023
Kafka 2.8.2 for Scala 2.12 in /opt/kafka - simple untar https://kafka.apache.org/downloads https://scala-lang.org/download/ - July 2023

NodeJS Update from 10.xx to 16.x with:

		sh /opt-src/Excluded/nodeSource16.x_setup.sh
		apt install nodejs

- June 2023

Wavedrom-cli seems to install now on Ubuntu 20.04 without the previous issue.
```
apt install npm
npm i wavedrom-cli -g
	
```
- June 2023
REINSTALLED gcc-7 and g++-7 on eceUbuntu and eceTesla - Feb 2023
REMOVED gcc-7 on eceUbuntu and eceTesla - Feb 2023
DISABLE snap on eceTerm1 and eceTerm2 I've done chmod o-x on /usr/bin/snap to stop users from loading these virtual machines heavily - 2023 Feb 8
Rust 1.67.0 rustup self uninstall for a root cargo install, apt remove rustc to remove the stock install then install the stand alone installer - 10 Feb 2023
Android Studio EEL 2022.1.1.19 into /opt/AndroidStudio to run it /opt/AndroidStudio/bin/studio.sh Each user, when running it, will be prompted to download ~400MB of stuff that goes into their ~/Android directory consuming 1GB of space! - Jan 2023
AMD Xilinx Vitis 2022.1 onto /opt/Xilinx - Install Vitis and only the Zync-7000 SoC Device - 48GB - Jan 2023
Intel Quartus 22.2 onto the /CMC partition from eceBackup1 with limited HW support - DOES NOT WORK ON RHEL9 because of missing ncurses.so.5 but works on RHEL8 install ncurses-compat-libs and libnsl - start with /CMC/intelFPGA_pro/22.3/quartus/bin/quartus 121GB - Nov 2022
Hadoop, Spark Update eceHadoop, eceHadoop0..13 from Ubuntu 18.04 to 22.04 and to Hadoop 3.3.4 - Oct 2022
Kafka Deleted 2.11-2.4.1 and 2.13-2.4.1 from /opt/kafka and installed 2.13-3.2.3 because of Log4J security issue - Sept 2022
Ansoft HFSS 2010 and EMPro2015 and boost 1.60 and netbeans 7.1 and SolarisStudio and gcc 4.3 daikon (from 2010 deleted due to Log4J issues or just age - Sept 2022
VS Code snap install --classic code and remove apt remove code from the machines that had an old install - Sept 2022
iVerilog 10.3 Remove manually installed iverilog (/opt-src/Excluded/iverilog/verilog/make uninstall) 10.3 install as it doesn't build any more and Ubuntu has moved to the 10.3 version - September 2022
Verilator 4.210 from /opt-src/verilator use make install and ensure that the stock one is not installed - 2021

dome

apt-get install libreadline-gplv2-dev libncursesw5-dev libssl-dev libsqlite3-dev tk-dev libgdbm-dev libc6-dev libbz2-dev openssl

unpack Python 3.9.13
./configure --enable-optimizations
make altinstall

pip3.9 install --upgrade pip
pip3.9 install -U pip setuptools      # this is critical to prevent inability to find setuptools
pip3.9 install cvxopt importlib numpy matplotlib scipy pyserial paramiko perlcompat
pip3.9 install fastnumbers oct2py openpyxl lxml networkx pandas seaborn progressbar2
pip3.9 install importlib graph_tools

FAILS TO INSTALL: graphtool

pip3.9 list

test setup with:  python3.9 -c 'import ssl'

# was /usr/local/anaconda3/bin/python -> python3.8

ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.9 /usr/bin/python3
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.9 /usr/local/anaconda3/bin/python
ln -s /usr/local/bin/python3.9 /usr/local/anaconda3/bin/python3

July 2022

redhat-lsb.i686 and redhat-lsb - on the ICCAD* servers for Cadence IC617 Virtuoso - /CMC/local/tools/cadence/IC617/tools.lnx86/bin/checkSysConf IC6.1.7 and ICADV12.3 - 14-Oct-2021
Py stuff - apt install python3-pymysql python3-dev python3-mysql.connector -y; pip3 install sqlalchemy scipy pandas - 15-Apr-2021

Gem5 - Ubuntu 20.04 install in /opt/gem5/build and 18.04 install in /opt/gem5/build-ubuntu18. https://www.gem5.org/documentation/general_docs/building - both versions use Python3 - 29-Mar-2021

git clone https://gem5.googlesource.com/public/gem5
cd gem5/
scons build/X86/gem5.opt -j 12
cp -r ~/gem5/gem5/build/ /opt/gem5/
scons build/ARM/gem5.opt -j 12
cp -a build/ /opt-src/gem5/ /opt/gem5/

pyodbc for Python - first apt-get install unixodbc unixodbc-dev and then pip install pyodbc - March 2021
SystemC 2.3.2 - build on Ubuntu 20.04 machine with:
```
export CXX=g++
mkdir build
cd build
../configure --prefix=/opt/systemc-2.3.2
make
make check
make install
```
and then copy from /opt/systemc-2.3.2 into /opt-src for all other machines - March 2021
yosys - for ECE 327 Nachiket - Oct 2021
ImageTk fix - For ECE 327 apt install python3-pil.imagetk as ImageTk is now not found on ubuntu 18.04 - Feb 2021
Git 2.29 - Updated from 2.20 to 2.29 to fix https issues - FIXED lack of Start Menu links 23-Nov - Nov 2020
Rust - download package and run install script to put it into /usr/local/bin/rust* (fixed Oct with rust-1.47.0-x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) - Sept 2020
cabal-install package
Sagemath for ece327 Kapre - issues installing it on Ubuntu1
CadPass R20 CMC. The rpm file installed on CentOS 7 after adding two dependancies and alien was used to convert it to a .deb at which point it installed on Ubuntu 18.04. However it pops up a window and then crashes on Ubuntu - Aug 2020
kotlin as a snap install - into /snap - July 2020
Kafka in /opt/kafka - for Wojciech - just download and un-tgz - July 2020
iVerilog 10.3 Remove the Ubuntu iVerilog 10.1 install as it has a bug ( https://sourceforge.net/p/iverilog/bugs/1011/ ) from 2017 - and manually make install from /opt-src/Excluded/iverilog/verilog* - July 2020
Hadoop + Spark latest versions in /opt-src and /opt all all machines for Hadoop on the Hadoop cluster using eceTesla0 as the head - March 2020
mavenj - v 3.0.5 broke on eceLinux1 so I deployed 3.6.0 on eceUbuntu* and eceTesla* - March 2020
hyperfine - from https://github.com/sharkdp/hyperfine with the deb file in /opt-src/Excluded/hyperfine
Erlang OTP 22 - install from their site by adding the repo as the Ubuntu version is older than the prof wants - Sept 2019
Scala install from deb here: https://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/2.12.0/scala-2.12.0.rpm https://downloads.lightbend.com/scala/2.12.0/scala-2.12.0.deb - June 2019
Hadoop 3.1.2 in /opt/hadoop-3.1.2 - June 2019
Spark 2.4.3 in /opt/spark-2.4.3-bin-hadoop2.7 - June 2019
Python3.6 CentOS7 python3.6 and pip3.6 for eceLinux1 as Python 2.7 and 3.4 are now obsolete and unsupported - June 2019
Vim You Complete Me Each user has to run the following:
```
ln -s /opt/vim-complete-me ~/.vim
cp /opt/vim-complete-me/vimrc ~/.vimrc
```
Updating the vimrc file to point to /opt/vim-complete-me did not work. Each user could install it but it's ~700M - June 2019
Nvidia cuDNN on eceUbuntu4 for testing - libcudnn and libcudnn-dev, matching the CUDA version is needed for tensorflow on a GPU. Test it with:
```
python3
import tensorflow as tf
```
VS.code 1.34 on eceLinux1 and eceUbuntu - May 2019
ModelSimASE 18.1 on Ubuntu - edit the scripts of altera15.1( or 18.1)/modelsim_ae/vco and .../modelsim_ase/vco and add kernel 4.[0-9]+ to use linux instead of linux_rh60. Then install libxext6:i386 and libxft2:i386 for ModelSim to start (missing libXft.so.2 error - April 2019
perf on eceUbuntu Need to run: Sysctl -w kernel.perf_event_paranoid=-1 and make it perm. by adding the following to /etc/sysctl.conf - Feb amp; April 2019
Digilent PYNQ board files from https://github.com/cathalmccabe/pynq-z1_board_files/raw/master/pynq-z1.zip referenced on this page https://pynq.readthedocs.io/en/v2.0/overlay_design_methodology/board_settings.html into this directory \Vivado\\data\board_files - 5-Apr-2019
gtkwave, iverilog, inkscape libjpeg62 libmng-dev libmng2 clang default-jdk-doc default-jre default-jdk libgoog-perftools-dev clang-tools-6.0 clang-6.0-doc llvm-6.0-doc texlive-latex-extra texlive-extra-utils traceroute oprofile linux-tools-common libelf-dev - Mar-2019
Vivado HL WebPACK in /opt/Xilinx - run with /opt/Xilinx/Vivado/2018.3/bin/vivado - 27-Mar-2019
PyTorch for a ECE657A. sudo -H pip3 install ujson spacy tensorboard tensorflow torchvision tensorboard tensorboardX torch keras pandas for the GPU machines, CUDA 9 is needed so the Tesla M2090 card do not work - 5 Mar 2019
python-tk, python3-tk, python modules cython & scipy & qutip on Ubuntu machines - 26 Feb 2019
LibXp.so.6 for Ubuntu 18.04 - which is needed to run the ADS GUI
the library exists - find it with locate libxp.so
????? - Jan 2019
LibXm.so.4 for Ubuntu 18.04 - which is needed to run the ADS GUI
install libxm4 - Jan 2019

Libpng12 for Ubuntu 18.04 - It is needed for the Quartus GUI

wget https://sourceforge.net/projects/libpng/files/libpng12/1.2.59/libpng-1.2.59.tar.gz/download
mv download libpng1.2.59.tar.gz
gunzip libpng1.2.59.tar.gz
tar -xf libpng1.2.59.tar
./configure
make
sudo make install
sudo mv /usr/local/lib/libpng* /usr/lib

udev issue Ubuntu 18.04 - Run the following to fixup udev breaking upgrades. Dec 2018

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst.backup
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst.backup /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

Matlab 2018b in /opt-src/Matlab2018b which is rsync'd into /opt on clients - it is 19G while Matlab 2015 was ~9G
Ubuntu: cppcheck (CentOS cppcheck-gui) and python-scipy Nov 2018
Tehuti 10Gb/s NIC driver StarTech ST10000SPEX This driver is hell on CentOS 7. It broke around 3/2018 and here is how you build the current version. Download driver tn40xx-0.3.6.16.1.tgz from the Tehuti Tech Support. Download from StarTech https://www.startech.com/Networking-IO/Adapter-Cards/10gb-pcie-nic~ST10000SPEX the file: [Tehuti_TN4010]_Linux-ESXI_PCIe_10_Gigabit_Network_Card.zip Linux Version: 0.3.6.16
The zip file contains the hdr files which need to be put into the driver directory. Run make clean; make ; make install and modprobe tn40xx and apply any network tweaks to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-AutoEthernet 5-July-2018

Ubuntu 18.04 udev upgrade issue

sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst.backup
sudo apt-get install -f
sudo mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst.backup /var/lib/dpkg/info/udev.postinst
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade -y

libfreetype.so for ModelSim on Ubuntu

The libraries have been moved into /opt-src/questa105/modeltech/lib and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is modified in opt-src/CMC/local/maagaard/bin/vsim. Below is the hint at https://askubuntu.com/questions/602725/trouble-running-modelsim-on-ubuntu but it's not quite what I did.

Built: /homeOLD/praetzel/FreeType-Old-Build/freetype-2.4.12/include/freetype
** Fatal: Read failure in vlm process (0,0)
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
You probably need to build a new version of freetype, a font setting library and modify ModelSim to use it. For an unknown reason ModelSim has an issue with modern versions shipping in Arch and Ubuntu 14.04. First download the source code of freetype 2.4.12:

http://download.savannah.gnu.org/releases/freetype/freetype-2.4.12.tar.bz2

Now install the build dependencies needed for libfreetype6, extract the source (using tar) and configure and build libfreetype:

sudo apt-get build-dep -a i386 libfreetype6

tar -xjvf freetype-2.4.12.tar.bz2
cd freetype-2.4.12
./configure --build=i686-pc-linux-gnu "CFLAGS=-m32" "CXXFLAGS=-m32" "LDFLAGS=-m32"
make -j8

The finished libraries are now available inside the objs/.libs directory. As they are necessary to run ModelSim we need to copy them into the install directory so they don't get lost and then modify ModelSim's vsim script to use the new libraries instead of the system wide versions. Change directory to the directory where you installed ModelSim, /opt/altera/13.1/modelsim_ase/, on my system. Note you may need to edit the directory paths to match those used on your system.

sudo mkdir lib32
sudo cp ~/Downloads/freetype-2.4.12/objs/.libs/libfreetype.so* ./lib32
Now we need to edit the vsim launch script to ensure the new freetype libraries are used:

sudo vim bin/vsim
Search for the following line:

dir=`dirname $arg0`
and underneath add the following new line:

export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=${dir}/lib32

Canonical LivePatch on eceTesla00 Create an account with Canonical One

sudo snap install canonical-livepatch
sudo canonical-livepatch enable xxxxxxxKEYxxxxxxx

Cadence Setup
Cadence 6 for CentOS 7 for ECE 445 - May 6, 2018
Put the following into /opt/bin/setup-cadence.csh Users should run csh to get into the cshell and then source /opt/bin/setup-cadence.csh in addition to being in the CMC group AND being authorized by the prof. for the CMC license
```
 source /CMC/local/tools/cadence/IC617/setenv.csh
 source /CMC/local/tools/cadence/SPECTRE171/setenv.csh
 source /CMC/local/tools/cadence/PVS152/setenv.csh
   
```
Apache Thrift 0.11.0 updated as /opt/bin/thrift - works on Ubuntu 18.04, ECE 454 - April 30, 2018
TensorFlow - Native PIP install on eceTesla0 and eceTesla00 via instructions at https://www.tensorflow.org/install/install_linux#InstallingNativePip, April 27, 2018

TexLive 2017 - download in /opt/Excluded/texlive and install in /opt-src which gets cloned to /opt/texlive in order to install pgfplots.sty as it's missing on CentOS 7 - 4.6G The path has to be updated to include /opt/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux vi /etc/profile.d/texlive.(c)sh scripts 21-Mar-2018
In /etc/profile.d/texlive.csh


if (! $?PATH) then
    setenv PATH ""
endif

set new="/opt/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux"
switch ($PATH)
    case "${new}:*":
    case "*:${new}:*":
    case "*:${new}":
    case "${new}":
        breaksw
    case "":
        setenv PATH "${new}"
        breaksw
    case "*":
        setenv PATH "${PATH}:${new}"
        breaksw
endsw

unset new

and for /etc/profile.d/texlive.sh

new="/opt/texlive/2017/bin/x86_64-linux"
case "${PATH}" in
    ${new}:*|*:${new}:*|*:${new}|${new}) ;;
    "") PATH="${new}" ;;
    *) PATH="${PATH}:${new}" ;;
esac

unset new
export PATH

SciTools Understand - Trivial un-tgz into /opt share for all machines, SE 465, 12-March-2018
manual Caffe compile Ubuntu 17.10.1 fails because gcc 7.x is too new - March 2018 apt install can be done with: sudo apt install caffe-cuda

Caffe on Ubuntu 16.04 copied to /opt/caffe http://caffe.berkeleyvision.org/install_yum.html


Setup x11 forwarding for ECE machines by appending the following to /etc/ssh/ssh_config

Host ece*
ForwardX11 yes


To boot to console: sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target
sudo systemctl set-default multi-user.target

Install Cuda 9.0 - NOT NOT 9.1
Install NVidia driver 384.111 NOT NOT 387

sudo dpkg -i /opt-src/Excluded/GPU/Drivers-cuda/cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64.deb
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-9-0-local/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda

# install the driver - two parts - first remove noveau then run it again
sudo sh /opt-src/Excluded/GPU/Drivers-cuda/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.25.run
sudo update-initramfs -u
sudo shutdown -r now

sudo sh /opt-src/Excluded/GPU/Drivers-cuda/NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-390.25.run



# to get a c99 program and caffe hdf5_hl to run:
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu /usr/lib64

sudo apt-get install libprotobuf-dev libleveldb-dev libsnappy-dev libopencv-dev libhdf5-serial-dev protobuf-compiler
sudo apt-get install --no-install-recommends libboost-all-dev
sudo apt-get install libatlas-base-dev
sudo apt-get install libgflags-dev libgoogle-glog-dev liblmdb-dev

sudo -H pip install --upgrade pip
sudo -H pip3 install --upgrade pip
sudo -H pip3 install numpy pyserial

git clone https://github.com/BVLC/caffe/
go into caffe
cp Makefile.config.example Makefile.config
# Adjust Makefile.config (for example, if using Anaconda Python, or if cuDNN is desired)
remove _20 and _21 from processors
Update : INCLUDE_DIRS := $(PYTHON_INCLUDE) /usr/local/include /usr/include/hdf5/serial/

sudo apt install nvidia-cuda-toolkit
had to patch the LIBRARY to get things to work for hdf5 Update : LIBRARY_DIRS := ... /usr/lib64/hdf5/serial/

make all -j 4   (for 4 CPU cores to parallel the compile)
make test
make runtest

Distribution: run make distribute to create a distribute directory with all the Caffe headers, compiled libraries, binaries, etc. needed for distribution to other machines.

make distribute

praetzel2@eceTesla00:~/caffe$ make distribute
CXX/LD -o python/caffe/_caffe.so python/caffe/_caffe.cpp
/usr/bin/ld: cannot find -lboost_python3
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
Makefile:507: recipe for target 'python/caffe/_caffe.so' failed
make: *** [python/caffe/_caffe.so] Error 1
***************************************************************************

to fix that update Makefile.config and change:
  PYTHON_LIBRARIES := boost_python python3.5m
  # PYTHON_LIBRARIES := boost_python3 python3.5m

One of the examples was tested with:

I ran ./examples/mnist/train_lenet.sh with the following. 
Login and create a directory and copy the require example files:
mkdir caffe-testing
cd caffe-testing
cp -a /opt/caffe/examples/ .
cp -a /opt/caffe/build/ .
cp -a /opt/caffe/data/ .

./data/mnist/get_mnist.sh
./examples/mnist/create_mnist.sh

./examples/mnist/train_lenet.sh

R8168 NIC driver and ml kernels CentOS 7.4 + mainline kernel (4.15) doesn't work with kmod-r8168 or the RealTek 8168 driver (compile fails). The Nvidia driver for the GPU also doesn't work with ml kernel but no time was spent trying to find a solution.

lm_sensors for Ryzen CPUs on MSI B350 MB lm_sensors requires nct6775 kernel driver and it's in elrepo kmod-nct6775 - sensors spits out tons of information but it's a different format than the Asus motherboards
In ubuntu added the kernel module name "nct6775" into /etc/modules


git clone https://github.com/groeck/lm-sensors
go into it and make and make install - also modprobe nct6775 to be sure the driver is in - possibly bash it to get the driver at boot time
The check-gpu script needs the following: 

echo "junk" > /tmp/mon/cpu-status.txt
/usr/bin/sensors | /bin/awk '{if ($1=="AUXTIN0:") {print " Physical id 0: ", $2, $0} else {next} }' >> /tmp/mon/cpu-status.txt
/usr/bin/sensors | /bin/awk '{if ($1=="SYSTIN:") {print " temp1: ", $2, $0} else {next} }' >> /tmp/mon/cpu-status.txt

NVidia GPU for ECE 459. Use stock CentOS 7 install, add Cuda 9.0 (/opt-src/Excluded/GPU/Drivers-cuda/nvidia-diag-driver-local-repo-rhel7-384.111-1.0-1.x86_64.rpm ) install & NVidia drivers for GPU (NVIDIA-GTX950-Linux-x86_64-384.111.run) Add?? /etc/ld.so.conf.d/ece4?? to point to correct libs with GLIBCXX_3.4.21 in /opt/local/lib64 - Feb 2018

Cuda, OpenCL - Tesla GPUs for ECE 459 using Tesla M2090 and P4 GPUs. SE 465 wants to run Microsoft CNTK but it requires Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. Jan 21, 2018

Testing: N queens problem is CPU only - serial version and parallel nqueens_omp - takes one Int and do not go over 17 due to overflow
binaries need to be run from their directory because path to kernel is hard coded within
nbody-opencl.c is not used as C bindings are not supported

	disable UEFI boot for the Nvidia drivers - otherwise they don't install
download CUDA 9.0 as 9.1 does not work with Linux (GPU drivers)
sudo dpkg -i cuda-repo-ubuntu1604-9-0-local_9.0.176-1_amd64.deb   [or equivalent RPM for CentOS]
sudo apt-key add /var/cuda-repo-9-0-local/7fa2af80.pub
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install cuda

software should be in /usr/local/cuda  and /var/nvidia* /var/cuda*

lsmod | grep nvidia to check for the existance of drivers installed also /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus
/etc/OpenCL/vendors/nvidia.icd is setup for linking in /etc/ld.so.conf.d/

openCL-headers needs to be installed 
ocl-icd-devel, ocl-icd and pdflatex + xclip are needed


Monitor with: nvidia-debugdump and nvidia-smi -q and don't forget lshw and lm-sensors

	OpenCL Jan 2018 
	On Ubuntu and CentOS 7 install Nvidia CUDA 9.0 (NOT 9.1)disable secure boot in BIOS or the drivers will not load
lsmod | grep nvidia   to check for kernel modules
nouveau should be uninstalled
check if the driver is running by looking in /proc/driver/nvidia/gpus
On CentOS 7 gcc libs are too old (need GLIBCXX_3.4.21) so use /opt/lib64 in the Makefile include

Solaris Studio should be installed in /opt/oracle/solarisstudio12.3/bin/cc  even if we're running a newer version
After CUDA and driver install check /usr/local/cuda, /var/nvidia* /var/cuda*

nvidia-smi lists running proceses and GPU info. nvidia-smi -q lists a lot more info and then users can kill their own processes with kill -9 PID where PID is the process id given by nvidia-smi


	
lm_sensors install lm_sensors and run sensors-detect to configure. Then use sensors to report CPU and other info. Use snmpd
	to export that to the Nagios and monitoring servers
	LLVM 3.0 rc4 Jan 21, 2018 - download llvm and clang 3.0mkdir BUILD
cmake ../llvm-svn
edit cmake_install.cmake
#Set the install prefix
CMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=/home/ssingh/opt/llvm-3.0rc4

??? cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release /opt-src/Excluded/Software-Source/llvm-3.0/llvm-3.0.src
create temp directory build-it to build binary in
cmake build-it
make

cmake -G "Unix Makefiles" -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release /opt-src/Excluded/Software-Source/llvm-3.0/clang-3.0.src/build-it -DCLANG_PATH_TO_LLVM_BUILD=/opt/llvm-3.0rc4/

	Microsoft CNTK installed on ece-tesla1/2 but the GPU is too old, eceLinux1 has it installed but fails basic test, https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/setup-linux-python?tabs=cntkpy231#anaconda3 Jan 17, 2018sudo -H pip3 install cntk--cp35...
Software in /opt-src/Excluded/Python-cntk

	Oracle Developer Studio 12.6 for ECE 459 (Tesla GPU) in /opt/oracle/solarisstudio12.3 - Jan 2018
	eceUbuntu gcc SE350 W2018 8-Jan-2018  ia32-gcc-4.4.4.tar.gz
	1) Install libraries to cross-compile 32-bit code in 64-bit machines, as86 tool, and qemu emulator:

sudo apt install lib32ncurses5 lib32z1 lib32stdc++6 libc6-i386 libc6-dev-i386 gcc-multilib g++-multilib bin86 qemu

2) Download the gcc from the website: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1hPx2qAHJMe-aCZ4oOc8is0tQXRelcM06

The standard EPOS gcc is inside the /usr/local/ia32 directory. First create the directory:

sudo mkdir /usr/local/ia32

Uncompress the gcc file you downloaded and move it to the /usr/local/ia32/ directory:

sudo mv gcc-4.4.4/ /usr/local/ia32/

	python-devel, python34-devel, sublime portable for testing in /opt/bin/sublime3 with a link from /opt/bin Jan 8, 2018
	Junit4, Junit5, ASM The following was downloaded into /opt/jars Jan 2, 2018

	ASM  http://download.forge.objectweb.org/asm/asm-4.0.jar

JUnit 4.10 from https://sourceforge.net/projects/junit/

JUnit 5.0.2 into /opt/jars/junit5-r5.0.2/  from https://github.com/junit-team/junit5/releases/tag/r5.0.2

	CNTK https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cognitive-toolkit/setup-linux-python?tabs=cntkpy231#anaconda3   pip3 install cntk-2.3.1-cp34-cp34m-linux_x86_64.whl Failed on CentOS 7 an xUbuntu 17.10 but it's all documented on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, 21-Dec-2017
	Google ErrorProne http://errorprone.info/docs/installation  The jar https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/com/google/errorprone/error_prone_ant was downloaded to /opt/ErrorProne/ but it's for ANT 2.1.1 and we have 1.9 but it works? with Java 1.8.0?  21-Dec-2017
	Python scikit http://scikit-learn.org/stable/>http://scikit-learn.org/stable/install.html  yum install openmpi  then pip3 install scikit-learn[alldeps]   21-Dec-2017
	pip3 install of scikit-learn[alldeps] ,  scipy for eceLinux1/2/3 and openmpi for CNTK
	Grad. students need Python tensor flow software and it's installed with pip install --upgrade tensorflow and that upgraded numpy, six, setuptools and enum34 at least

		Mentor Precision 2015b, ModelSim 10.5c for ECE 327 tools on Nexus.  Install ModelSim first Dec 2017
	icarus iVerilog v10.1.1 from ftp://ftp.icarus.com/pub/eda/verilog/v10/ for ECE 621, CS 450 installed into /opt/verilog on CentOS 7
      yum install gperf
sh autoconf.sh
./configure --prefix=/opt-src/verilog

	
Whole-Program-LLVM https://github.com/travitch/whole-program-llvm  install with pip install wllvm - March 26, 2017
CMC Cadence IC617 from Phil in /CMC/local/tools/cadence 6.8GB [old cadence is 31GB] - Feb 22, 2017
Xilinx Vivado using Xilinx_Vivado_SDK_2016.4_1215_1.tar.gz and Xilinx_SDx_2016.3_sdx_1130_1.tar.gz for ECE 720
Xilinx (Vivado, SDSoC , PR) license for 10 seats for ECE 720 - Jan 2017
Altera OpenCL SDK license a 50 seat license for ECE 720 - Jan 2017
 
Blender (ffmpeg) Trying - can't get google-droid-sans-fonts - when installed with --skip-broken ffmpeg isn't found
VirtualBox
wget https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc
rpm --import oracle_vbox.asc
vi /etc/yum.repos.d/oracle.repo   [and put in the following]

[virtualbox]
name=Oracle Linux / RHEL / CentOS-$releasever / $basearch - VirtualBox
baseurl=http://download.virtualbox.org/virtualbox/rpm/el/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=1
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=https://www.virtualbox.org/download/oracle_vbox.asc

yum install virtualbox
Dart, maven (CentOS7 base rpm, not in CentOS6)
git clone https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/tools/depot_tools.git
export PATH=$PATH:`pwd`/depot_tools
mkdir dart-sdk
cd dart-sdk
gclient config https://github.com/dart-lang/sdk.git
gclient sync
cd sdk
./tools/build.py --mode release --arch x64 create_sdk
mkdir /opt-src/Dart
mv out/* /opt-src/Dart/

MEEP 1.3 CentOS 6 and 7 start with
 yum install blas lapack blas-devel lapack-devel guile mpi hdf5 guile-devel mpi-devel hdf5-devel  fftw fftw-devel

 then download and install libctl-3.2.2 (use .configure LIBS="-lm" and then mpb 1.5 and then meep.

Also install h5utils-1.12.1 from source and apply the following fix as patch 1.12.1-2.1 did not work for me:
about line 312:
 //  if (setjmp(png_ptr->jmpbuf)) {
     if (setjmp(png_jmpbuf(png_ptr))) {

about line 437:
//   free(info_ptr->palette);
     png_free_data(png_ptr, info_ptr, PNG_FREE_PLTE, -1);
 
Spark 2.1.0 for ECE456 W17 from http://apache.parentingamerica.com/spark/spark-2.1.0/spark-2.1.0-bin-hadoop2.7.tgz put into /opt/spark-2.1.0... March 22, 2017
Spark 1.6.1 for ECE456 S16 from http://apache.parentingamerica.com/spark/spark-1.6.1/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6.tgz put into /opt/spark-1.6.1-bin-hadoop2.6 March 29, 2016
Quartus 13.0 on CentOS 7 - when installed ont eh server (CentOS 6) and exported to clients - clients die at the quartus_map stage
using ECE 327 scripts or by running the Quartus GUI with a trivial VHDL circuit.  Install Quartus II 13.0 locally and the Quartus GUI works
but ECE 327 scripts blow at the fit stage with : Out of memory in module quartus_fit (521 megabytes used) while running 32-bit Quartus II on a 64-bit Operating System platform. Use the 64-bit Quartus II to increase memory capacity.
But it's impossible to get it running in 64-bit mode because that requires libatm_astr.so and it can't be found.
Matlab 2015a (also 2014) on CentOS 7 - install on the server - mount ISO with mount -o loop file.iso and then install OR if it's installed
locally when the user tries to run it they get "matlab utLoadLibrary mcos_impl failed"

LLVM, Clang 3.60 on CentOS 7- 3.70 and 3.80 can't be installed due to more dependancy issues.  First install gcc 5.3.0 as the stock gcc is too old.
install libatomic libxml2-devel and add the new libs to ld as mentioned in the gcc install above.  For instructions on building clang and LLVM:
https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-llvm-and-clang-on-centos-6  INSTALL to NFS share /opt-src/local and then it replicates to /opt on all machines March 10, 2016

GCC 5.3.0 in /opt/local/bin however it only runs on CentOS 7 machines Instructions are at https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-install-gcc-on-centos-6 - March 10, 2016
	Apache and misc. files in /opt/testing - https://archive.apache.org/dist/httpd/httpd-2.2.21.tar.gz as well as course specific files for ECE453/465/CS447/ECE653/CS647
	Silvaco license on eceLic - run bin/sflm-access on a client to point it to the license server, uses port 3162 by default, then copy the new silvaco-tcad/sflm_monitord.cf to the file server - Nagios only monitors if the service is up and not if
	a license is being served. NOTE: MobaXterm access on campus can be quite slow - but ThinLinc or NoMachine access is fast.  Running it on the console is prefered. Jan 2016
Unison 2.40.102 Jan 25, 2016 - in /opt/bin it only runs on CentOS 7, an older unision is in /usr/bin for CentOS 5
	EMPro 2015_01 Nov 23, 2015 - use source /opt/bin/start-empro.csh 
	numpy Oct 7, 2015 - deployed for ECE 650 Methods for Soft. Eng.
	ThinLinc ISSUE  ThinLinc installs in /opt; however /opt is overwritten with software from the file server.  So it's impossible
	to install ThinLinc on an of the machines except eceLinux4.
	ThinLinc 4.4.0 Sept 30, 2015 for testing.  It installed 
	        thinlinc-tlmisc-4.4.0-4775.x86_64.rpm
        thinlinc-tlmisc-libs-4.4.0-4775.x86_64.rpm
        thinlinc-tlmisc-libs32-4.4.0-4775.i686.rpm
        thinlinc-vsm-4.4.0-4775.x86_64.rpm
        thinlinc-vnc-server-4.4.0-4775.x86_64.rpm
        thinlinc-rdesktop-4.4.0-4775.x86_64.rpm
        thinlinc-tladm-4.4.0-4775.x86_64.rpm
        thinlinc-tlprinter-4.4.0-4775.noarch.rpm
        thinlinc-webaccess-4.4.0-4775.noarch.rpm
	
	QuestaSim 10.4 The install died with a Java exception on Centos 5,6,7 if I installed it locally or to an NFS share.  Phil installed it on a SL 7 machine and sent me the tarball and it works.  It looks like ModelSim but the directory struture has changed. May 2015
	Mentor Precision 2011a The install was straight forward but there are some issues
	for some students in ECE 327. May 2015
	Scala 2.11.6 un-tgz it and put it (about 30M) in /opt It works on CentOS 5 and 7 for csh/bash  To exit it use ctrl-D
	Thrift (from EPEL repo on eceubuntu as CentOS 5,6 do not meet the gcc and boost 
	requirements. For ECE 454 S2015, installed April 2015
	MySQL 5.7.5 on eceLinux4, open port 3306 locally - MySQL-5.7.5-m15-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm-bundle.tar which includes: 
mysql-community-bench-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm     mysql-community-embedded-devel-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm
mysql-community-client-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm    mysql-community-libs-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm
mysql-community-common-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm    mysql-community-libs-compat-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm
mysql-community-devel-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm     mysql-community-server-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm
mysql-community-embedded-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm  mysql-community-test-5.7.5-0.6.m15.el6.x86_64.rpm

	Setup password: mysqladmin -u root password NEWPASSWORD

	test connectivity: mysql -u root -p

	configure server: vi /etc/my.cnf
	
	ADS 2015.01 on eceServ - 6.9G, simple install at the console, update the /opt/bin/start-ads.csh script to point to the new directory - Feb 18, 2015
	Silvaco license on eceLic - run bin/sflm-access on clients to point them at the license server, uses port 3162 by default - Nagios only monitors if the service is up and not if
	a license is being served. NOTE: MobaXterm access on campus can be quite slow - but NoMachine access is fast.  Running it on the console is prefered.
	Silvaco TCAD and Virtual Fab Just un-tgz onto the file server - license is setup with bin/sflm_access, To run the software use MobaXTerm or NoMachine or a local login, type csh if you're not in the c-shell, then source /opt/bin/setup-silvaco.csh as it defines SILVACO to the install directory and adds the bin directory to the path, License checkout happens when you RUN the program (tonyplot, deckbuild)!!, After installing TCAD download Virtual Fab and use bin/sman to install the tgz file on the file server, Jan 2015
	Raspbian kernel and tools Use "source /opt/bin/setup-raspbian.csh" then copy /opt/Raspbian/linux to /tmp/your_user_ID and make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- bcmrpi_defconfig
make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf-

Add -j n where n is number of processors * 1.5


The sources were from:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/documentation/linux/kernel/building.md
git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/raspberrypi/linux
git clone https://github.com/raspberrypi/tools
 Nov 18, 2014
	Modelsim 10.3 Sept 10, 2014
	ModelSim 10.3 via CMC license into /opt on all machines
	
RVM and Ruby Feb 21, 2014
       rpm --erase ruby rrdtool perl-rrdtool  (also enable DAG repository)
curl -sSL https://get.rvm.io | bash -s stable
source /etc/profile.d/rvm.sh 
yum install libffi-devel-3.0.9-1.el5.rf.x86_64
rvm requirements   (libyaml-devel gets installed)
rvm install 2.1.0   (go to https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/downloads/ to find latest)
rvm use 2.1.0 --default

rvm info    (system info)
rvm list    (list installed versions - but does not include stock one)
rvm get stable    (upgrades rvm installation)

LLVM, Clang for ECE 453 / SE 465 / CS 447 / CS 647 on CentOS 5 - Jan 2014
svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/tags/RELEASE_30/rc4 llvm-svn cd llvm-svn/ cd tools/ svn co http://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/tags/RELEASE_30/rc4 clang ./configure --enable-optimized make make install

GCC 4.4 - yum install gcc44 gcc44-c++ then do the following and you can run ./configure and make:
export CC="gcc44" export CXX="g++44"

TGIF - No Windows version found, March 2013

IPE - Only source seems to be http://pkgs.org/download/ipe, From Source on CentOS: then edit config.mak to select the directory set by IPEPREFIX also yum install cairo-devel qt-devel lua-devel libXext-devel (CentOS 5) - BUILD FAIL error: cairo_toy_font_face_create was not declared in this scope - have cairo 1.2.4-5 but > 1.8 is required? CentOS 6 has 1.8.8-3 but building fails with many undefined references to lua_* Installed lua-static failed again ../../build/lib/libipelua.so: undefined reference to `lua_isuserdata'

Matlab update from 2012a to 2012b

Boost 1.49.0 download the source, ./bootstrap.sh then ./b2 install --prefix=/opt/boost1.49 on the file server and move to the Linux client machine share June 12, 2012

HSpice source /CMC/scripts/hspice* then run /CMC/... May 28, 2012

Sonnet 13.5.6 April 15, 2012, run install then installem in the install dir

ghdl, gtkwave March 8, 2012

Matlab R2012a 4.7G, Stock install, March 6, 2012

NetBeans IDE 7.1 into /opt/netbeans*/bin/netbeans Feb 2012 (640M)

ModelSim 10.1 in /opt/ModelSim101 Jan 2012 (1.1G)

EMACS 23.3 into /usr/local/bin Jan 2012

ADS 2011.05 ADS update from Phil, Nov 2011

Libexif for Patrick Lam Feb 9, 2011 libexif, libexif-devel

ADS 2009u1r500 ADS update from Phil for Prof. Slim, co-exist with older version - Jan 31, 2011

Matlab R2010a 3.4G, easy install, works best with NXWin Jan 2011

HFSS 12 1.2G, each user must be authorized to run the software, Aug 2010

Sourcery G++ Lite 4.3.2 (4.3-54) for Coldfire ELF free cross compiler for Coldfire http://www.codesourcery.com/sgpp, Oct 27, 2009 (104M freescale-coldfire-4-4=52-m68k-elf.bin (Mar 2010)
Installed in gcc-coldfire, linker scripts here ./m68k-elf/lib/ldscripts/ , mcf5307.ld is for the current board, mcf5206.ld is for the very old board

ModelSim 6.5c on ECELinux - version 6.4c is still present - fully install now has 64 bit support and takes 1.2G with the gcc support for SystemC, Sept 23, 2009

HFSS 11.1 on ECELinux - run with source /opt/bin/start-hfss.csh, Provided by Phil using their license, requested by Hussein Attia, required the install of mesa-libGLU-devel, June 2009

Sonnet 12.52 on ECELinux - run with source /opt/bin/start-sonnet.csh, April 2009

Subversion on ECELinux - setup instructions on the TWiki, Mar 2009

Agilent ADS 2009 - installed, needs X-11 32-bit compatability packs to make simulation work, Mar 2009.

Perforce - installed licensed for 50 users (for public domain software), Feb 2009

Cadence for ECE 437/439 - basically the stock install from Phil but in /opt/CMC with a link from /CMC. Users must be in group cmc, run source /opt/CMC/scripts/setenv.cadence.ic.5141.csh then startCds -t cmosp18. When simulating they must use the library path: /opt/CMC/kits/cmosp18.5.2/models/spectre/icfspectre.init March 11, 2009

Altera Quartus 9.0 + ModelSim AE + NIOS II - GUI crashes via XMing, ok console - command line works, March 11, 2009

Altera Quartus 8.1 + ModelSim AE + NIOS II??? - GUI crashes via XMing, ok console, command line works, Feb 2009

Mentor Precision - works in /opt/Precision_synthesis_2008a.47 - Feb 2009

Mentor ModelSim SE - works in /opt/ModelSim64c - Feb 2009

GAMS 23 for ECELinux, run as /opt/bin/gams - Feb 24, 2009

Snort to stock Centos 5 install libpcap-devel, pcre-devel, then Snort from source,./configure, make and make install.

gcc (latest) on Centos 5 - build c anc c++ only with ./configure --enable-languages=c,c++

ubuntu "sudo apt-get install (smartmontools, ntp, net-snmp)" then apt-get update

Software to Investigate

ThinLinc - easy to setup and use, Performance worse than NoMachine on high latency links. Oct 2016

MOSH - looks great but no X11 support yet. It's supported in MobaXterm. Open firewall UDP 60000 to 60999 and ssh. Oct 2016

MobaXterm X11 client for Windows. It works with Altera Quartus, is as expensive as NoMachine when licensed but has a free "personal" version.

Mono - Ximian's open-source C# implementation

IBM "Rational" software. MS VC 6.0 is needed , but it does not have to be preinstalled, I believe. PATD has to be set so that VC is accessible from Rose Real Time.

Nexus Servers

Darik's Boot and Nuke http://www.dban.org/download to wipe all HDs in a computer

Snare EventLog (Nov 10, 2008) on ECE-LIC as NTsyslog has been crashing at boot time http://www.intersectalliance.com/projects/BackLogNT/index.html

Sysinternals PSshutdown to turn off labs on Friday. Users are given a 30 minute warning - excellent tool.

Linux servers - motherboard monitoring: LM_sensors
To install run /usr/sbin/sensors-detect and accept the defaults, then modifiy /etc/modules.conf and then add the startup into /etc/rc.d/rc.local
Note that you'll have to edit and tweak /etc/sensors.conf and run sensors and tweak things until it's ok - then add a simple perl script to use logger to syslog any lines with "ALARM" in them.

Linux Help and Hacks

Jan 2021 - VSCode Sharing
This method allows each member to view and edit files simultaneously in the same environment. The software required: - UW VPN - Microsoft VS Code - VS Code Remote-SSH extension - VS Code Live Share Extension - ThinLinc or MobaXTerm The host needs UW VPN access. They should set up an ssh session to eceubuntu.uwaterloo.ca in VS Code SSH-Remote, and then setup a liveshare session for themselves and the lab partners. After joining the liveshare, each partner will be able to temporarily access and edit the files the host has open in VS Code. The host will also need a separate terminal connection in ThinLinc or MobaXTerm to run the simulations as VS Code terminal does not support GUIs. This screen can be shared with other members using Webex.

Linux Problems

May 2023 - ModelSim ASE 18.1 for Quartus - I edited all of the modelsim_*/vco files to include the 5.* kernels for Linux as only upto 4.* was supported

Mar 2023 - VSCode is crippling Linux servers. To debug try this: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/wiki/Performance-Issues

May 2021 - Cadence on ubuntu 18.04 : ./local/tools/cadence/IC617/tools.lnx86/bin/checkSysConf -r then /CMC/local/tools/cadence/IC617/tools.lnx86/bin/checkSysConf ICADV12.3 - missing libxp6:i386 and libpng12-0:386

Nov 2020 - FIX duo_unix, krb5 and local passwords. In order to get both local passwds and krb5 auth for an account to use duo_unix do the following:
curl -s https://duo.com/DUO-GPG-PUBLIC-KEY.asc | sudo apt-key add - Add this to /etc/apt/sources.list.d/duosecurity.list deb [arch=amd64] https://pkg.duosecurity.com/Ubuntu focal main apt update apt install duo-unix edit /etc/duo/pam_duo.conf and add ikey, skey and host
Config files
https://help.duo.com/s/article/5085?language=en_US /etc/ssh/sshd_config PasswordAuthentication no KerberosAuthentication no ChallengeResponseAuthentication yes AuthenticationMethods keyboard-interactive UsePAM yes /etc/pam.d/sshd already uses common-auth so no changes are needed /etc/pam.d/common-auth - keep the ordering of pam_krb5 and pam_unix and add pam_duo auth [success=2 default=ignore] pam_krb5.so minimum_uid=1000 auth [success=1 default=ignore] pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass auth requisite pam_unix.so nullok_secure try_first_pass auth sufficient /lib64/security/pam_duo.so

ThinLinc requires that an OTP can be used twice due to how ThinLinc client first connects and authenticates to the master server and then reconnects and authenticates to the agent server. https://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/docs/tutorial/otp

21-July 2020 - fixed cross-site scripting on sca by sanitizing everything in the HTMlcommon.pm file with $text =~ s/[^A-Za-z0-9 ]*/ /g;

April 2020 - wavedrom-cli, for Prof. Kapre ece327, doesn't run on Ubuntu because installing it (libssl1.0-dev in particular as it's required by npm) uninstalls a library needed by another course (libcurl4-openssl-dev)

31-Mar-2020 - tweaked Killing program which deals with too much shared memory as it looked like it was killing ECE 327 compiles - so increased the size of shared memory from 10M to 50M

15-Jan-2020 - changed shell on Linux from csh to tcsh as the Ubuntu 18.04 csh was bsd-csh and was too old to be useful - all csh users moved over, create_user script updated with tcsh

5-Mar-2019 - svn on eceLinux4 can't pull from the repo because it's too old. So I uninstalled : subversion subversion-perl subversion-javahl perl-Git git gitk git-gui tig The subversion versions installed are:
eceSVN uses: subversion-1.6.11-15.el6_7.x86_64 [redhat stock for RHEL / CentOS 6] svnclient Ubuntu : 1.9.7 svnclient eceLinux1/2/3 : 1.7.14 svnclient eceLinux4: 1.7.4 [it uses a more updated repo than CentOS 6]

Nexus (Windows 2000, XP, Win7, Win10) Problems

2023-Oct SCADA SEL Relays - Update downloaded from products - software and updates - power engineering - SCADA for Powerlab from lucas-nuelle.com site https://download.lucas-nuelle.com/published/lucas-nuelle-inc/Power%20Engineering/SCADA%20for%20Powerlab as the old version, with Win 10 22H2 does not reliably detect the relays over the 485 serial network.

2023-Sept-10 - UEFI Boot, TPM 2.0 on the Asus motherboard with 8th gen Intel mITX computers. Boot WinPE and run mbr2gpt.exe with /validate and then /convert - may need to force drive with /disk:0 to convert MBR boot to UEFI. Reboot and tweak BIOS to use UEFI / Secure Boot. Also in BIOS under Advanced -> PCH_FW... -> Intel Platform Trust enable TPM 2.0.

8-Mar-2023 - Login Screen Message - for RF-Winserv - Computer Config -> Policies -> Windows Settings -> Security Settings -> Local Policies -> Interactive Logon and it uses two settings

15-Apr-2021 - CompleteEASE needs to be tweaked after install. First move the cnf directory from the old machine as it has required equipment calibration files. The software folder in C:\Software\CompleteEASE needs to have permissions opened so that authenticated users have modify persmissions or else the software just freezes at the splash screen. The administrator has to run the software once and install the license key.

22-Apr-2020 - BenchVUE doesn't work reliably for non-admin users and always works for the admin. The fix is to open up permissions for authenticated users to have full perms on C:\ProgramData\Keysight

1-Mar-2019 - ComSol 5.3 fails to launch on nearly all machines. The fix is to run: C:\Program Files\COMSOL\COMSOL53\Multiphysics\bin\win64\comsolxpl.exe and that is done by Q:\eng\ece\util\comsol53.bat

25-May-2018 - Keil MCB1700 boards in E2-2363 had issues with the LCD not working. The issue was the USB power blocks as some did not provide enough power (or some Keil boards drew too much power?) until the Keil board was plugged into the 1A charging port on the USB brick.

Feb 2018 - Keysight Instruments issue with Windows 10 release 1709. The driver windows\system32\drivers\ausbtmc.sys (dated 11-2014) is present but not loaded, unreliable or working after upgrading to release 1709. Re-installing release 1703 and upgrading to 1709 usually fixes the issue, but not always. Installing IO Libraries 18.2 doesn't help.

Jan 2018 - Users logging in on computers in E2-2364 never get, or it takes minutes, for the Start Menu to populate. The issue is likely this: https://communities.bmc.com/docs/DOC-96007 I created a script Q:\eng\ece\util\fix.bat which creates a file and then deletes it in the user profile and this makes the Start Menu populate.

July 2017 - Avast deletes (Behaviour Shield) MicoTec.exe, sidif.exe, mergic.exe, semsim.exe SOMETIMES a while after they're running. Deleting is silent unless the user has opened Avast and to do that the password has to be removed. Disabling the Behavor & File Shield doesn't help - the Behavior shield still deletes the files even after a reboot. The only solution is to have users open Avast and tell the Behavor shield to ignore the file. Excludes no longer work and the full path to the files is not N:\tempMT\* but the file share which is the N:\ drive.

W2017 - Avast deletes the flash installer MicroTec and C:\Software\Altera\15.1\quartus\bin64\nios2-gdb-server.exe - adding excludes fixed the problem.

May 2016 - GPO / MSI software not fully installed - delete the registry key to force another attempt via: HKLM - (Software?) - Group Policy - AppMgmt -> {ed8c...}

April 2015 - Windows 7 Nexus clients are extreamly slow for around 10 minutes after booting or coming out of hibernate with the HD light on constantly exphost read about 1.2GB from the HD on two machines I tested. Windows Search is disabled by default and disabling superfetch service didn't seem to have any effect.

May 2012 - Matlab 2012b does not run due to an error with Visual C++ redistributable 2005. Uninstall the software (this will fail, but it will be removed from the list of installed programs) then re-install it. Then YOU MUST run Matlab once as administrator before it will work for users. This problem hit 20% of the computers in the CPH-1333 lab.

?? 2006? - The Dia 0.95 doesn't work

Oct 2005 - Fixed BiPole in an ugly way. There were Java issues with Bipgraph on some machines and unknown issues with sBip on many machines. The solution was to copy the q:\eng\ece\bipole\bipwin directory tree to the user account in n:\tempbip and execute everything in there.

Oct 2005 - The Dia 0.94, Sonnet 10, MPLab installs snookered my Nexus installs. They all installed files - which are overwritten and locked by Vindoze. As a result the packages can never be removed and trying to do so wedges the machine such that it can never install a software package (and security update??) again! Currently this has taken down E2-2356. Everything needs to be re-installed :(

Jan 2005 - Win XP + SP2 seems to break HDSmartMon with a "not a WIN32 app" message! But that's only on some computers.

Nov 2004 - WP 10 is broken by Windows XP SP2 (to be deployed Dec 6) - so I have to remove WP from almost everywhere. We'd have to purchase WP 12 to replace it.

Oct 2004 - Cygwin XWin - the directory C:\Software\Cygin\temp must be emptied, have permissions changed or something.

Jan 2004 - Registry key / environment variable problem with WebPack and Altera license files. The solution is to delete the user registry key with regedt32 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Environment] LM_LICENSE_FILE = ...

Eternal crash and reboot with Windows SP#3 - Windriver driver too old - delete WiNNT\system32\drivers\windrvr.sys and replace with one newer than 5.05
P & E Micro. Assember for Coldfire - tries to write to INI file and you must kill the task - normal exit is not possible.
Eudora - Eudora creates a file n:\mail\owner.lok when it starts and in cases it can be left behind - leaving you unable to start Eudora. Simply add the following line to your N:\mail\eudora.ini file in the first section:
OwnerLok=0
Netscape - Netscape caches to the user N: disk. It can't be moved by the user because Netscape uses "Application Data" part of the roaming profile. Run Q:\gen\etc\Move Netscape.cmd and it should move the caching to the local harddrive.

Nexus (Windows 2000, XP) Q: disk

June 2022 - LTSpice 17.0.34 in Q:\eng\ece\LTSpiceXVII\XVIIx64.exe - from https://analog.com - install to local drive as admin and then copy to network share. At startup it copies ~80MB to the users Documents aka MyDocuments folder in LTSpiceXVII\lib directory - do not use if MyDocuments is on OneDrive

Apr 2021 - Q:\eng\ece\LTSpiceXVII\XVIIx64.exe - install to local drive and then copy to network share. At startup it copies ~80MB to the users Documents aka MyDocuments folder in LTSpiceXVII\lib directory

Sept, 2019 - Q:\eng\ece\thinlinc4101\tlclient.exe - ThinLinc 4.10.1

May, 2019 - Q:\eng\ece\util\Eclipse-cpp.bat - Sets path for the Tuque Eclipse 2019.03 install with MinGW both in C:\Software

Nov 12, 2018 - Q:\eng\ece\thinlinc490 - ThinLinc 4.9.0

June 2, 2018 - Q:\eng\ece\SFTPNetDrive2017\SftpNetDrive.exe - from https://www.nsoftware.com/netdrive/sftp/download.aspx Personal Edition - It allows someone to have a file explorer interface to a Linux file system which offers sftp access.

June?, 2018 - Q:\eng\ece\QC-Matlab - ECE 445, 493 Quantum Computing - pulse sequence or quantum algorithm - Deutsch-Jozsa and Pseudo-Pure State Prep. algorithms for Matlab. - Run Simulation.main

April 23, 2018 - Q:\eng\ece\util\find-com.bat and find-com.py is a simply Python program to enumerate all COM ports for ECE 327, MTE 241 which use the LogicalStep and Keil boards with FTDI USB <--> Serial adapters

Feb 6, 2018 - ThinLinc 4.8.1 into Q:\eng\ece\util\thinlinc481 - install locally and copy the folder to the Q: drive

sublime for testing is nin Q:\eng\ece\util - Jan 8, 2018

Nov 15, 2016 - Weka 3.8.0 into /opt on Linux and Q:\eng\ece\weka-3-8-0 run with DOS shell java Q:\eng\ece\weka-3-8-0\weka.jar

Oct 2016 - 7zip in Q:\eng\ece\7zip run Q:\eng\ece\7zip\7zFM.exe for the GUI or command line with: Q:\eng\ece\7zip\7z.exe

Jun 28, 2016 - LT spice from http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/ run it with: Q:\eng\ece\LTspiceIV\scad3.exe
install to C:\temp and then copy the folder to Q: drive

Sep 8, 2015 - Install Energia release 16 in Q:\eng\ece\ and added the modified Digilent Orbit Library

Sep 8, 2015 - Installed ThinLinc http://www.cendio.com/thinlinc/download to Q:\eng\ece\util\ThinLinc44

Aug 8, 2015 - Updated Q:\eng\ece\util\MobaXterm.exe

Dec 8, 2013 - Updated BiPole 3 to the Win 7 x64 version - run using Q:\eng\ece\util\sbip.bat and ..\util\bipgraph.bat

June 16, 2013 - testing MobaXterm in Q:\eng\ece\util

Mar 14, 2013 - TGIF

Mar 14, 2013 - IPE 7 installed on Q:. Run Q:\eng\ece\util\ipe.batJan 23, 2012 - Apache Tomcat 7.0.35 x86 from http://tomcat.apache.org/download-70.cgi onto the Q: disk. It runs on user N: disk but on read-only Q:?

May 1, 2012 - Win32Svn http://sourceforge.net/projects/win32svn/ 1.7.4 ZIP file into Q:\eng\ece\svn

Jan 17, 2011 - NoMachine NXWin client in Q:\eng\ece\NXWin Run it via q:\eng\ece\util\nxclient.bat Total 35M with all fonts. Nexus users automatically get ECELinux configured with the key but non-Nexus users must import q:\eng\ece\NXWin\share\keys\client.id_dsa.key into their config -> keys
Here are install instructions

Feb 5, 2010 - GVim on Q: updated from 7.1 to 7.2

Jan 4, 2009 - NEdit for Windows ???

Jan 4, 2009 - Lynx on Q:\eng\ece\lynx from http://home.pacific.net.sg/~kennethkwok/lynx/

Dec 2009 - emacs 22.3 in Q:\eng\ece\emacs-22.3 started with Q:\eng\ece\util\emacs.bat - 130M!

June 2009 - MicroTec 4.2 if the software is not able to get a license then it runs in demo mode and gives data for an example problem. You can identify if the simulation ran in demo mode by noting the 5th line in the DOS simulation window. It should have Guardant key found 0 Key_type = 2. If it has anything else then the simulation will be incorrect.

July 24, 2008 - IDA Free 4.9 on Q: for ECE750, q:\eng\ece\ida49free\idag http://www.hex-rays.com/idapro

July 23, 2008 - PSim 7.1.2 Demo Version; run by Q:\eng\ece\util\runPsim7.bat

July 6, 2008 GTKwave for GHDL http://home.nc.rr.com/gtkwave/ for viewing simulation output (VCD files) in Q:\eng\ece\util

April 29, 2008 - GVim on Q: updated from 7.0 to 7.1

Oct 1, 2007 - Added WinSCP.bat to Q:\eng\ece\util which points to winscp404.exe in the same directory.

Sept 10, 2007 - upgraded GNUPlot on Q:\eng\ece\gnuplot422 from version 4.2.0 to 4.2.2

June 27, 2007 - upgraded GNUPlot from 3.7 and 3.7.1 (linked from anywhere) with version 4.2.0. By default version 3.7 is installed installed in c:\Software\eng\ece\util

May 18, 2006 - GVim updated to 7.0 in Q:\eng\ece\gvim It's linked from Q:\eng\ece\(g)vim.bat

May 17, 2006 - added TeraTermPro 2.3 to Q:\eng\ece\TeraTerm with the batch file q:\eng\ece\tterm.bat running it. I set the default serial port to be com1, 19200 baud, 8 bit, no parity, 1 stop bit, 25ms delay per line, 200 line buffer

May 1, 2006 - upgraded Austek CFasm for ECE 222 to version 2.92 and copied it into q:\eng\ece\util This version has a BUG!

Feb 6, 2006 - GVim 6.4 in Q:\eng\ece\vim\vim64 - updated gvim.bat and added vim.bat in q:\eng\ece\util REMOVED: GVim 6.0, 6.1 and 6.2 from Q: disk

Dec 16, 2005 - MicroTec 4.1.3, directory copied, drivers not installed, disabled WINS for finding licence server and hardwired it to ece-lic. Note; a script runs the program by copying it fully to the user N: disk as it doesn't work on a read-only volume. The web site is http://siborg.com/mt_server/microtec_413.exe The server has a USB key with 20 licenses.

Nov 8, 2005 - Put latest Sip-Communicator in Q:\eng\ece\sip2005

Aug 24, 2005 - GVim 7.0 ALPHA [run q:\eng\ece\vim\vim70aa\gvim.exe] - from http://users/skynet.be/antioine.mechelynck/vim - This version has a built in spell checker - "setlocal spell spelllang=en_us" ":spell on"

Aug 24, 2005 - GVim 6.3 [type vim or gvim to run from DOS or Start Menu] - from ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc - I installed gvim63.exe onto Q:\eng\ece\vim\gvim63

Aug 16, 2004 - Apache Ant software to q:\eng\ece\apache-ant-1.6.2 for ECE 355

July 23, 2004 - Installed SIP Communicator SIP Communicator in Q:\eng\ece\sip Note that I modified the XML file to default to connecting to uwuserid@iptel.org - the stock XML file is in the current directory
Note that iptel.org is used for connections and SIP Communicator connects to it via port 5060 UDP and TCP (had to open Nexus firewall hole) and I'm told that clients communicate thru 5004 UDP but I have not verifed that.

July 9, 2004 - Moved BiPole (sbip, bipgraph) to Q:\eng\ece\util and Q:\eng\ece\bipole

April 12, 2004 - updated Putty SSH tools from version 0.52 to 0.54

March 9, 2004 - Spice3F4 (Windows - "WinSpice") on Q: Just run it with "spice3" or Q:\eng\ece\util\spice3 It's from http://www.willingham2.freeserve.co.uk/winspice.html Note that you just use the command "source myfile.cir" to open files. Look in Q:\eng\ece\winspice\examples (particularly phonoamp.cir) for how to make a CIR file that automatically generates plots and the format for plotting.

March 8, 2004 - Spice 2G6 (DOS) on Q:\eng\ece\spice2g6 - run by typing Q:\eng\ece\util\spice2.bat The software is from: http://www.willingham2.freeserve.co.uk/winspice.html

Feb 26, 2004 - Unix tools from http://unxutils.sourceforge.net/ have been put onto Q:\eng\ece\util

Feb 2, 2004 - GVim 6.2 [type vim or gvim to run from DOS or Start Menu] - from ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc - I installed gvim62.exe onto Q:\eng\ece\vim\gvim62

Nov 10, 2003 - updated PSim (installed by Bernie). The license server is now "ece-lic". To start the software run q:\eng\ece\util\runpsim.bat That batch file forces the name of the license server for non-E&CE Neuxs machines. On E&CE machines the environment variable already points to "ece-lic"
Note: I added runpsim.bat renamed as psim.bat in Q:\eng\ece\psim6.0 in the hopes that users will run the bat file and not the EXE as the EXE needs to have the pointer to the license server setup for it.

Jan 9, 2003 - added Java SDK 1.3 to Nexus Q: disk Q:\Eng\ECE\Java1.3 and E&CE machines on C: Add Q:\Eng\ECE\Java1.3\bin or C:\Software\Eng\ECE\Java13\bin to your path
Dec 9, 2002 - added GCC compiler for Colfire in ECE 354
Dec 9, 2002 - added WinCVS ver 1.2)
Dec 9, 2002 - added Putty Suite (ver 0.53b) in q:\Eng\ECE\Util
Dec 9, 2002 - added GNUPlot (ver 3.71) in q:\Eng\ECE
Dec 9, 2002 - added GVim (also on C: for ECE machines)

Nexus (Windows 2000, XP)

Policies

Win 10 Background image at login set with policy for all labs using the old lab. pictures but without the text help info that we used to have on the login screen - March 2019

Misc

Login message at boot time - set a User Config, Windows Settings, Script (logon) along the lines of:
msg.exe %USERNAME% "%USERNAME% - a gentle reminder, 'food (eating) or refreshments (drinking) are not allowed in the Engineering Labs'." goto end :end

Memory Use

UserAppSVC - 1.4M memory used

Firefox 1.5.0.7 70M memory used

Thunderbird 1.5.0.7 46M memory used

Norton NAV,SAV 17M memory used

Putty 500k + 3M per window memory used

Windows Media Player 9.0 6.7M memory used

StarOffice (OpenOffice) quickstart 8.3M memory used, 22.3M with blank text document open

Nexus Tuque Installs

Note - to find the uninstaller look under the registry in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall

waitfor32.exe is on the Tuque share for adding a time-out for installs
Ie waitfor32.exe -f200 sets a 200 minute timeout

MS Office 2021 fix Office LTSC Pro XXXX isn't updating as expected but here is how it can be updated:

"C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatepromptuser=false forceappshutdown=true displaylevel=false Or script it with psexec to (it will pop-up a message to a logged in user upon completion of the update): psexec @computers.txt -d -n 30 cmd /c "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\ClickToRun\OfficeC2RClient.exe" /update user updatepromptuser=false forceappshutdown=true displaylevel=false

ETap 22.5.0 When the admin adds the license it goes into their profile in Local/OTI/ETAPS/22.5.0/etaps.ini - this needs to be moved to C:\Windows so that all users use the same license. Auth Users need modify access to the ETap directory. - Oct 2023

MS Teams the software is on the machine but the user needs to install it in their profile from C:\Program Files (x86)\Teams Installer - Sept 2023

ThinLinc 4.15.0 update to replace 4.14.0 - Aug-2023

SiFive Freedom Studio simple unzip into C:\Software\RiscV - the tools are unzipped there but not installed - add a desktop link to C:\Software\RISCv\FreedomStudio.exe - 5GB - March 2023

Xilinx Vitis 2022.1 50.3GB ZIP unpacks to 74GB in C:\Software\Xilinx - PYNQ board support is another Tuque package - no silent uninstall possible - Dec 2022

Xilinx Vitis 2022.2 16GB ZIP unpacks to 49GB in C:\Software\Xilinx - PYNQ board support is another Tuque package - no silent uninstall possible - Nov 2022

Aug 2022 - STM Cube IDE 10.0.1 - install the driver cer file with certutil.exe -addstore -f TrustedPublisher STMicroElectronics_TrustedPublisher.cer and then the driver using dpinst_amd64.exe from the C:\ST\STM32CubeIDE_1.10.1\STM32CubeIDE\drivers\STLinkUSBDriver directory. The install is just st-stm32cubeide_1.10.1_12716_20220707_0928_X86_64.exe /S /Y

Nov 2021 - OpenShot 2.6.1 - uses /VERYSILENT as an arg

May 2021 - STM32CubeIDE 1.6.1 for ECE 298 - a trivial install just use /S /Y options - to uninstall the uninstaller is in the program directory and use /S for silent - it installs to the C:\Program Files\STMicroelectronics\STM32CubeIDE_1.5.0 directory CubeMX is 430MB and CubeIDE 1.6.1 2.19GB

Feb 2021 - Numpy Fix For ECE 327 Windows 10 2004 breaks Numpy 1.19.4 and it must be reverted to 1.19.3 with pip install numpy==1.13.3 from here: https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/content/problem/1207405/fmod-after-an-update-to-windows-2004-is-causing-a.html

Feb 2021 - Eclipse 2020-12 Eclipse addition to Quartus 20.1 with the plugin's also unzipped into the folder, Instructions, 12-Feb-2021

Dec 2020 - Proteus 8.11SP1 Upgrade - updated to current version 17-Dec-2020

Dec 2020 - STMicro CubeIDE and CubeMX - CubeMX install automated by doing install to generate an auto-install.xml file which is then passed to the installer: SetupSTM32CubeMX-6.1.0.exe /S auto-install.xml The CubeIDE install and uninstall both prompt the user for everything.

Nov 2020 - Proteus Fix - to clear an incorrectly memorized user ID clear the registry keys: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Labcenter Electronics\Proteus 8 Professional\WANPass and WANUser

Aug 2020 - Arm DS 2020 - Firewall holes are required for some programs like c:\Program files\arm\development studio 2020.0\sw\models\bin\fvp_mps2_cortex-m3.exe, Windows Telnet is required and installed by shell dism /online /Enable-Feature /FeatureName:TelnetClient - the license in on ece-lic via FlexLM, Outstanding issue: ARM DS does not detect the JTAG USB Blaster without Windows Firewall tweaks and driver updates.

Sept 2020 - Quartus 20.1 - requires Win Subsystem for Linux & Ubuntu 18.04 Linux install and packages in Linux and OBSOLETE version of gcc (4.4.7) & Visual Studio 2010 on Windows. THIS IS IMPOSSIBLE to deploy to entire rooms that are using a current VS++
https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/programmable/documentation/esc1425946071433.html https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/wsl/install-win10

Aug 2020 - CadPass R20 CMC. The exe can be unpacked to an msi and cab file; however the MSI refuses to install because "This package can only be run from a bootstrapper".

July 2020 - PSim 2020 Student update same as 2019 install

July 2020 - Thinlinc 4.12 update

July 2020 - Layout Editor 2018 version licensed License done via AD user registry keys forced at login.

July 2020 - Proteus 8.10 Run the exe with /extract:C:\temp\proteus and it'll extract the files into C:\temp\proteus, then delete the files you don't need (Win XP specific ones ...). To make the installer script the install for Win 10 I hd to install VC 2013 12.0.30501 (provided) setup for proteus and the appropiate dongle driver. HOWEVER it defaults to the free/demo version and I don't know how to do the license configuration yet - and it can't be changed to a cloud / local license server after install

May 2020 - MobaXterm 20.2 update to replace the 11.x version we had deployed

May 2020 - Quartus 19.1 Free for ECE 124 use. NOTE: WSL is required for NIOS and that is impossible with our Roaming Profiles

May 2020 - VirtualBox 6.16 update

Mar 2020 - Docker 2.4GB in C:\Program Files\Docker

Feb 2020 - PSCad 4.6 This install can not be made to work. The install has several parts - the two fortran installs can be scripted - but PSCad itself requires VC++ 2015 Update 3 (from 2016) to be installed and Windows refuses to install it because it already has a newer update. The scripted install fails because of that - while a manual install can continue. To script the install first run the setup with /r to record the answers in an iss file.
START /WAIT vc_redist.x64.exe /install /quiet /norestart /log vc2015update3x86.log START /WAIT vc_redist.x86.exe /install /quiet /norestart /log vc2015update3x64.log START /WAIT GFortran42\setup.exe /s /f1"C:\nexus\install\work\fortran42.iss" /f2"C:\temp\fortran42.log" START /WAIT GFortran46\setup.exe /s /f1"C:\nexus\install\work\fortran46.iss" /f2"C:\temp\fortran46.log" REM If PSCad setup is run first it has popups to install GFortran START /WAIT setup.exe /s /f1"C:\nexus\install\work\pscad4.iss" /f2"C:\temp\pscad46.log"

Feb 2020 - VirtualBox 6.1.2 AND the extensions For extensions had to add C:\Software\VBox\VBoxManage.exe extpack install --replace C:\Nexus\install\work\Oracle_VM_VirtualBox_Extension_Pack-6.1.2.vbox-extpack --accept-license=56be48f923303c8cababb0bb4c478284b688ed23f16d775d729b89a2e8e5f9eb To get teh license key you have to install it on a computer and it prints it after installing it

Jan 2020 - Quartus Pro 18.1 with Cyclone5 & Max 10 support. I had to add "--accept_eula 1" to the install args - ??GB installed in C:\Software\Altera\19.1\ - zip file is 5.1GB

Oct 2019 - VirtualBox 6.0.12 Simple update

Aug 2019 - MinGW for Eclipse - Eclipse 2019.03 requires MinGW as a compiler. MinGW is in C:\Software\mingw

Aug 2019 - MobaXterm - The hope was to allow students to install various tools with apt but the install goes into the user profile and is lost at logout since that overloads the profile size.

July 2019 - TESTING Syslogging http://yallalabs.com/windows/how-to-forward-windows-system-event-logs-to-a-linux-syslog-server/ more info here: https://download.cnet.com/Datagram-SyslogAgent/3000-2085_4-10370938.html Datagram SyslogAgent is based upon NTSyslog

Aug 2019 - VirtualBox 6.0.10 Simple update

June 2019 - Code Composer Studio 9.0.1 (free license) To install it build as above for CCS 8.2. Also need to update to MSP 3.80.07.00 for driverlib 2.91.11.01 - Install MSP 3.80.07.00 BEFORE deploying CCS 9.0.1 for Eclipse to detect it upon install - June 2019

May 2019 - PSim 11.1.7 Student x64 for ECE 463 - download from www.powersimtech.com/free-teaching-license-download/ run the installer with /SAVEINF=c:\temp\psim1117.inf to get config options. Tweak the file to push the install to C:\Software\PowerSim install with /LOADINF=.. /VERYQUIET /SP- Each user must enter the license number

May 2019 - Eclipse update for Java & Cpp to 2019.03 in C:\software\eclipse - requires minGW - run with Q:\eng\ece\util\Eclipse-cpp.bat

May 2019 - KB4493437++ for BSOD Windows 10 login - at login a user will get a blank screen and all that they can do is hit ctrl-alt-del to log out. The next login works. KB updates were rolled out to 1709 and 1803 releases and a registry key fix: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\ProfSvc\Parameters\UseProfilePathMinorExtensionVersion = DWORD 1

May 2019 - Python 2.7 matlib for Carmen - it seems to require numpy and pandas and then dies with an error that Visual C++ 9.0 is missing (http://aka.ms/vcpython27).

May 2019 - Cisco WebEx Desktop basic MSI install with /i for install and /q for quiet

April 2019 - Octave 5.1.0 from https://www.gnu.org/software/octave/download.html, I unziped octave-5.1.0-w64.zip into C:\software\octave-5.1.0-w64 and it is run by clicking on the octave.vbs file (FAIL: 64-bit recommended installer - octave-5.1.0-w64-install.er.exe /s)

Virtual Box update to 6.0.6, update to ECE 298 DipTrace libraries for Kim - April 2019

ETap 18.0.0 license When the admin adds the license it goes into their profile in Local/OTI/ETAPS/18.0.0/etaps.ini - this needs to be moved to C:\Windows so that all users use the same license. The etaps.ini can also be in user profiles so that different users can have different licenses. - April 2019

Apr 2019 - TikiScope was developed inhouse using LabView by Carmen amp; Kevin - fixup for Win 10. We were running a 2015 version and the EXE and data directory contents need to be updated. The install is a trivial unzip, use shortcut.exe to create a Start Menu link and then pnputil to prep the driver for installing.
Note that the newest driver breaks TIKIscope; ver 6.0.8, the one currently installed, is the newest ver that works with the newer (2015) dll library. https://www.tiepie.com/download/archive#Libraries

Apr 2019 - PowerWorld 20 Demo - simple install from provided MSI 145M

Apr 2019 - PowerWorld 13 Demo from 2007 old MSI - hacked quick deploy for labs - no uninstall - replaced by PowerWorld 20 Demo

Apr 2019 - Vivado WebPack (Free) Edition 2018.3 - 25G in C:\Software\Xilinx for ECE 429

Mar 2019 - Vivado Lab Edition 2018.3 - 3.3G in C:\Software\Xilinx\vivado-lab for ECE 327

Mar 2019 - DipTrace ECE 298 Libraries - installed in C:\Program Files\Diptrace\libECE - add a custom library and include all files in the directory to use them

Mar 2019 - Tortoise SVN 1.11.1 6-Mar-2019 - simple MSI install

Feb 2019 - VirtualBox 6.0.4 - simple update

Feb 2019 - Git 2.20.1 - simple update

Feb 2019 - Quartus license fixup - old research Quartus server removed

Jan 2019 - GerberTools 2018_8_10 simple unzip into C:\Software\GerberTools

Nov 2018 - ImageMagick 7.0.8 to replace 7.0.7 (which doesn't seem to exit the installer at times)

Nov 2018 - Code Composer Studio 8.2 To install it build a response file with this:
ccs_setup_8xxxxx.exe --save-response-file c:\temp\response.txt --skip-install true To use the response file: START /WAIT ccs_setup_8.2.0.00007.exe --response-file c:\nexus\install\work\response.txt --mode unattended --prefix C:\Software\ccs

Nov 2018 - Code Composer Studio 6.2 (free license) To install it build as above for CCS 8.2.

Nov 2018 - rStudio 1.1.463 and r-project.org base R install - trivial add /S to signal a silent install. ECE 254

Nov, 2018 - Git 2.19.1 update

Oct, 2018 - Keysight 18.2 - FAILED - run installer and copy files from C:\users\_admin_acct\AppData\local\_whatever_is_newest and then merge the files from the 3 directories. The _ISMSIDEL.INI file needs to be edited to point to the new location of the install files. No luck getting this working.

Sept, 2018 - PSim 17.2 as PSim 9.1.3 from 2012 doesn't work well on Win 10

Aug 1, 2018 - Virtual Box 5.2.16 update

June 13, 2018 - ETap 18.0 - Silent install by running: etapsetup/EtapSetup.exe /quiet BEFORE this you must install 32 and 64-bit versions of MS SQL Lite 3.5

June 13, 2018 - MS SQL Lite 3.5 - Silent install by downloading SSCERuntime-ENU.exe which unpacks SSCERuntime_x{64,86}-ENU.MSI Just install the MSI's with /i for install and /q for quiet.

May 16, 2018 - Choregraphe Suite 1.14.5 x86 - install not automated yet with --mode unattended --installdir "C:\Software\..." --licenseKeyMode licenseKey --licenseKey xxxx-yyyy-..... it does not seem to like any of the options

May 16, 2018 - VSCode x64 1.23.1 simple install add /VERYSILENT /NORESTART /SUPRESSMSGBOXES https://code.visualstudio.com/

May 14, 2018 - OceanView 1.6.5 x64 for QNC Lab

May 10, 2018 - Java JDK 8u171 x64 for Eclipse Oxygen ECE 351

May 9, 2018 - Eclipse 4.7.3 Oxygen Download the ZIP installer, unzip it, then run it once (it goes from 202M and 1387 files to 217M with 3518 files). Then zip up the install and deploy that into C:\Software\Eclipse\Oxygen

April 28, 2018 - ImageMagic 7.0.7-28 x64 dynamic

Mar 12, 2018 - SciTools Understand - Trivial just add /S for silent install, silent uninstall is "C:\Program Files\SciTools\Uninstall Understand.exe /S" SE 465

Feb 21, 2018 - Diptrace 3.2. Run the installer and it unpacks into C:\users\**Your_Admin_Account**\AppData\Local\Temp\SETUP_* Copy that and use for the silent install as before. Dito for the 3D models.

Dec 19, 2017 - SmartMonTools 6.6-1

Dec 17, 2017 - Python 2.7.13 in C:\software\Python27 - install ECE 327 required modules for Python 2.7 and 3.6

Dec 11, 2017 - gimp 2.8.22, audacity 2.2.1, lame 3.99

Oct 5, 2017 - Arudino 1.8.5 ZIP file unzipped to C:\software and Emulare Arduino emulator from http://emulare.sourceforge.net/ It's a stock NullSoft install using /S for silent install. The uninstall program is linked from the Start Menu.

Sept 2017 - Virtual Box 5.1.28 update to 5.1.10 for Best PLL on Win 10 x86

May 2017 - Unity 5.6.1 for ece??? - straight forward install, don't install Support packages, UnityDownloadAssistant isn't needed, UnityExampleProjectSetup destroys the install ... https://docs.unity3d.com/500/Documentation/Manual/InstallingUnity.html

May 2017 - updated SmartMonTools to 6.5-1 for new installs

May 2017 - script to take ownership and wipe out C:\LogicalStepSVN directory

Mar 2017 - numpy, pyserial and Pillow modules for Eng. Comp. Python 3.5 Tuque install for ECE 327

Mar 2017 - Quartus 15.1 fixup - zip of entire install to lay over existed destroyed installs

Jan 2017 - ADS 2015, SystemVUE - deployed to c:\temp and reg keys setup for license. NOTE: fixup the workspace with the following registry key:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Keysight\ADS\4.30\eeenv] "HOME"="N:\\"

Dec 2016 - ZoIPer - easy install, tested iwth Voip.ms

Nov 2016 - VirtualBox 5.1.10 - easy install - VMs CAN NOT BE RUN if a user is logged in in the background

Sept, 2016 - Quartus 15.1 install - MUST be one of the last installs for both Byteblaster & FTDI serial to work with the LogicalStep board. If it's not the last connecting to the serial port will make the ByteBlaster driver go away. One of the following packages may cause the problem: Python 2.7.5, Eclipse 4.3.2 Std, Git 1.9.5, NetBeans EE 7.3.1, Stellaris Drivers???, MatLab R2014a

Aug 24, 2016 - Eclipse Java Neon. YOU MUST grab the ZIP install. The zip has 1391 files and 259 directories. Run eclipse.exe and you'll have 3437 files and 659 directories. Add jvm-monitor and you have 3563 files and 706 directories. NOTE: Any user can add any addon - but can other users access those because they will be owned by the user who installed them!!!

May, 2016 - Keysight BenchVue 3.1 - Keysight I/O Libs are required. Horribly complex to script install. DOES NOT WORK!!

Apr 26, 2016 - Eagle Cad 7.5.0 - run the installer and after clicking setup it unpacked into C:\temp\swap\WZSE0.TMP - copy that directory. Then copy junk into bin\eagle.key and open perms to all users: icacls C:\software\eagle750\bin\eagle.key /grant Users:F /q

Apr 26, 2016 - DipTrace 3.0 Free; run the installer, but do not start and do not exit as it gets deleted upon exit, and copy the newest directory in swap (this time it was c:\temp\swap\SETUP_20987 The automate the install SETUP_20987\engine.exe /SILENT /HIDE The uninstall is done with dipfree_en64_20100.exe /SILENT /HIDE

Dec 15, 2015 - NTSyslog - given up on Snare and rsyslog

Dec 14, 2015 - Tortoise SVN - simple MSI install

Oct 22, 2015 - ImageMagic 6.9.2-4 x64 dynamic

Oct 3, 2015 - Agilent / Keysight IO Libs 17.1 via info here: http://www.keysight.com/main/editorial.jspx?cc=US&lc=eng&ckey=576222&nid=-11143.0.00&id=576222

Sept 7, 2015 - Daniel installed the Energia software using: a GPO to install the perms for the cert for the drivers: Eng. Comp. : Eng.Comp. Public Lab Settings then install the Tuque drivers: Stellaris Drivers for CCSv6 and Energia and then install the Tuque package for Energia. Does it work??

July 28, 2015 - OpenDSS 7.6.4 from http://sourceforge.net/projects/electricdss/ - fast install and uninstall - script with /s for silent un/install.

Winter, 2015 - ADS 2015 scripted install is very unreliable. All versions of ADS have had the same issue - a user running the software creates a config file - which no other use can modify or delete and so nobody else can run ADS until the administrator deletes the config files C:\temp\hpeesof\config

April 26, 2015 - Matlab MCR (Compiler Runtime) 8.0 aka Matlab 2012. Run the installer to unzip it - then copy the whole directory. Run the setup program with -mode silent -agreeToLicense yes To do the install you'll find the string (just the uninstall file in the install directory + path to install + -silent option to prevent it from poping up a window. 1.0G installed, 90M when uninstalled.

April 8, 2015 - Mumble 1.2.8 - trivial msi file to install

April 4, 2015 - TI Code Composer Studio 6.1.0 did not install with --unattendedmodeui none and --mode unattended

March 31 2015 - Agilent QuickIV B2902 SMU software - small, simple MSI install but it requires Agilent I/O libs 16 or newer

Mar 5, 2015 - ADS 2013 manually installed on the Windows XP machines. The pushed install of ADS 2015 broke the 2013 install by deploying a 64-bit license tool which had to be manually uninstalled.

Feb 27, 2015 - PCBArtist uses InstallShield but doesn't seem to respond to the /r switch and definately not to /f1 - so scripting was not possible

Feb 23, 2015 - Keysight BenchVue 2.6 - Keysight I/O Libs are required for this software. When you run the BenchVue installer it unzips itself. If you then copy the unzipped directory and manually run the setup file you'll find that the silent in stall is via /S /v/qn - however this has TWO popups - License Manager and Host Processor Platorm. Look inside the ISS.. directory and you'll find AgilentLicenseManager*.exe and two HPP_Generic*.exe files - install them first with /S /v/qn and then the setup.exe program.

Feb 19, 2015 - ADS2015.01 - DEPLOY NOT WORKING - Must be installed manually - but then there are no links (C:\Software\Agilent\ADS2015_01\bin\ads.exe) and the user must enter the license configuration. The Windows install is very slow. Using -r or /r at install time DOES NOT record or generate the installer.properties file - the installer just exists. I re-used the installer.properties file and updated the directory for the new version. The install is 4.5G on Windows 6.9G on Linux. A recent license update to 2015 broke support for the 2011 version.

Aug 28, 2014 - Digilent Measurement 2.7.5 for USB scopes. Just use /S for a silent install or uninstall.

May 2014 - MagicDraw 17.0.5 LTR InstallAnywhere - use -r C:\magic.txt to build the install file and then install with -f C:\magic.txt -i silent to install. To uninstall just use the file linked from the uninstall icon and add "-i silent" to make it silent. WARNING - a reboot is forced right after and trying to build an uninstall file didn't do anything for me.

May 2014 - Android SDK (and it's associated Eclipse) is being removed. Q:\eng\ece\util\eclipse.bat now points to the Kepler 4.3.2 Eclipse

May 2014 - Eclipse Kepler 4.3.2 x64 - simply unzip http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ To get it to work use Q:\eng\ece\util\eclipsenew.bat as it detects the Java version and configures PATH to point to the latest JRE or JDK

May 2014 - Git 1.9.2 http://git-scm.com/downloads. Easy Tuque install - just build the inf file and then install it with Git-1.9.2-preview20140411.exe /VERYSILENT /SP- /LOADINF="git.inf". It happily over-writes the previous install without issues. Uninstall by going into C:\Program Files (x86)\Git and run unins000.exe /VERYSILENT

April 15, 2014 - added Emulare Arduino emulator from http://emulare.sourceforge.net/ It's a stock NullSoft install using /S for silent install. The uninstall program is linked from the Start Menu.

April 9, 2014 - Atmel AVR Studio 6.1. The install is trivial and silent using the /s option. Uninstall is much harder as there are many packages listed under uninstall in the HKLM WOW64 registry. Or one can build an iss file to uninstall via the setup.exe program in the install shield directory. Run with -r -f1c:\removeAVR.iss to build the uninstall file and run it via -s -f1c:\removeAVR.iss (this does not work unless done manually without the -s) Installed parts are GNU Toolchain 922M, AVR 8bit toolchain 124M, AVR 32bit toolchain 183M, Atmel Studio 6.1 ??M, Atmel software framework 244M, AVR Macro Assembler 19M. NOTE: the uninstall breaks VisualStudio 2008 apparently NOTE: A command line assembler called GAVRasm is also available.

April 7, 2014 - Arduino toolchain 1.0.5r2 (265M installed) and 1.5.6r2 Beta (388M installed) installed via unzip into C:\Software. UNTESTED. Nullsoft installer install via /D=direcotry, /S or /SD (silent, very silent) worked EXCEPT for a driver install popup. The uninstall ALWAYS prompts asking if you want to uninstall.

March 11, 2014 - ETap 12.5 - In order for the install to work the install directory MUST be empty. Build the install iss file with: setup -r -f1c:\install.iss After the install script runs copy over the modified etaps.ini file which has the license setup.
To build the uninstall script (THIS DOES NOT WORK!) go into the directory pointed to in the registry - c:\program files (x86)\installshield installation information\{E05..} and then run setup -r -uninst -removeonly -f1c:\remove.iss to build the remove response file.

Mar 3, 2014 - Quartus 13.0sp1 - The scripted install is the same as Quartus II 13.1 - one just has to run the Quartus installer and it'll install all other files in the local directory. The uninstall is the same.

Feb 27, 2014 - Java JDK 7u51 x64 ( 226M installed )

Feb 26, 2014 - Audacity 2.0.5 & Lame, GIMP 2.8.10 ( 267M installed)

Feb 10, 2014 - Quartus 13.1.0.162 - The scripted installs has a popup for Talkback. The install is easily scripted via --unattendedmodeui none --mode unattended --installdir c:\Software\Altera\13.1 It seems to install all other EXE's in the lcoal dir (ModelSim, DSPBuilder, Nios, FPGA devices) but the update to 13.1.2.173 must be run after. To uninstall just run the -uninstall.exe for every package in the uninstall directory where the package is placed.
The Altera UPDS software package can't be scripted - but all FPGA packages in with the install files will be installed.
The Tuque install takes about 63 minutes and 21.0G (an extra 2.39G for SP1). A trival circuit for the Cyclone V takes 1:30 to compile while averaging around 1G of RAM.

Oct 2013 - ETap 12.5 - building the iss install file doesn't seem to allow scripted install of this version of ETap (12.0G installed)

Aug 13, 2013 - NetBeans 7.3.1 EE bundle from www.NetBeans.org - If users have problems wipe out the profile part in C:\Users\__User__ID__\AppData\Roaming\NetBeans It's installed in C:\Program Files\NetBeans7.3.1

Aug 13, 2013 - MySQL Workbench http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/installer/5.6.html

July 2013 - EclipseCDT Kepler x64 - simply unzip http://act.350.org/sign/healing-walk-invite-13/?akid=3304.597025.npx97s&rd=1&t=2

July 2013 - Blender 2.67b Win x64, VirtualDub 1.9.11, AVIdeMux 2.6.1 x32. NOTE AVIdeMux has no icons - find it in C:\Software\AVIdemux

March 2013 - Updated to CrystalMaker 2.7.5 and SingleCrystal 2.6.2

March 2013 - Agilent QuickIV B2902 SMU software - small, simple MSI install but it requires Agilent I/O libs 16 or newer

Feb 2013 - ETap 11.1.1 - InstallShield 11.5G

Feb 2013 - Gimp 2.8.2 - Ok - I modified the uninstall to check for the existance of the uninst000.exe file before running the install to prevent popups and hangs.

Feb 2013 - Altera Quartus 12.1 - The setup program can be used to script the install - but an uninstall is impossible unless you traverse the directory tree or a registry tree as the uninstal file names are different on each install.

Jan 2013 - DoPDF 7.3 and PDFCreator 1.6.2 (nasty install as it tries to load you up with add-ones) - works

Jan 2013 - Java JDK 7u11 x32 - works

Dec 2012 - Android SDK bundle ( http://developer.android.com/sdk/index.html ) with Eclipse and support for Subclipse and API 10 - zip up the full install directory in C:\Software\adt-bundle and then have the Tuque installer unzip it - no registry keys. then add a batch file to point to the JDK:

Q:\eng\ece\util\eclipse.bat is a batch file which: 1) Appends C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.7.0_10\bin to the path 2) Run C:\Software\adt-bundle-windows\eclipse\eclipse.exe

Dec 17 - testing Agilent VSA software http://www.home.agilent.com/en/pc-1905089/89600-vsa-software?&cc=CA&lc=eng

Dec 11, 2012 - Java JDK 7u10 (simple install)

Dec 11, 2012 - NetBeans 7.2.1 bundle with Glassfish 3.1.2.2 and Tomcat 7.0.27? + Java JEE from www.NetBeans.org

Nov 21, 2012 - Altera Quartus 10.1 : 12.8G full install takes aprox 15 min and compresses into a 7G file. The install via the web install (download and script an install) works well but the uninstall is not yet solved.

Nov 20, 2012 - Altera Quartus 12.1 : 20.9G full install takes aprox 30 min and compresses into a 10G file. The install via the web install (download and script an install) works well but the uninstall is not yet solved.

Nov 4, 2012 - OceanOptics SpectraSuite 64-bit version for Win 7 x64. Simple install. The driver must be installed manually by admin. ~~The new version allows any module to be used on any computer and on any USB slot.~~ Previous versions locked a single module to a single USB port.

July 10, 2012 - ADS 2011.05 - Agilent tech support gave instructions for how to script the install but the license setup is still manually done PER USER. The license setup does not stick if the administrator does it. NOTE: Config data is written to c:\temp\hpeesof\config and owned by the user and NEVER removed!! This means that only one user can run the software on EngTerm!!

June 2012 - CrystalMaker and SingleCrystal licensed versions. The uninstall looks clean on XP but leaves files in the admin account on Win 7. They do provide a silent installer but one must have a multi-machine license and contact the company for details.

June 2012 - Pasco DataStudio 1.8.8 - install on Win 7 seems to be one-shot and then doesn't work any more with the same iss file. The uninstall is unreliable on Win 7. The Admin must still run the software once before regular users can run it. Also, the registry keys from a working install must be inspected to extract the serial number and license key.

June 2012 - SpectraSuite 2.0.162 (9/30/2011) upgrade and Tuque install from http://www.oceanoptics.com/technical/softwaredownloads.asp Relatively straight forward install and uninstall.

Apr 2012 - Python 2.7.3 - MSI install, trivial

Apr 2012 - OpenDSS 7.4.3 - simply unzip, create an icon and copy it to the Start Menu, uninstall by rm'ing link and directory

Apr 2012 - Keil uVision 4.2.3 - there seems to be no silent install, no install args which can be passed. The uninstall is a file uninstall.exe in the program directory - again it offers no help, no args to pass.

Apr 2012 - Sonnet 13.5.6 - MSI file, need to figure out license setup

Apr 2012 - ETap 11.1.0 - InstallShield, uninstall is via a response file which must be made then call setup.exe with -s -uninst -f1

Mar 2012 - Snare 4.0.1.2 - installs fine April 11, 2012

Mar 2012 - SmartMonTools - installs fine April 11, 2012

Mar 2012 - Quartus 11+ can't be used because SOPC builder has been replaced with QSys and requires a manual rewrite.

Feb 24, 2012 - PSIM 9.1.3 x86 for Win XP and 64-bit for Win 7 Enterprise. The license is managed via a program on the license server.

Feb 2012 - ModelSim SE 10.1 - uninstall is "Install.exe -batchremove path_to_sw", to install first do the initial install - it'll drop in a program Start - Mentor Graphics - Batch Tool Then select wizard and it'll build the install batch file.

Jan 2012 - ETap 11.0.0 - 10.2G - original Activiation Code was incorrect, silent install via InstallShield, silent uninstall still un-identified

Jan 2012 - Quartus 11.1, silent uninstall doesn't work

Jan 2012 - GIMP 2.6.11 + Audacity + Lame, silent pops up a window but doesn't require interaction

Jan 2012 - XMing 7.5.0.43, silent uninstall overwrites putty.exe with a program that returns so that the uninstall doesn't throw a pop-up window.

Nexus GPO MSI Software Installs - Testing

Mar 2017 - Pasco DataStudio 1.9.8r10 crashes on Windows 10 educational unless you use Win XP SP3 compatibility mode.

Feb 2014 - Keil uVision MDK 5.10 - aprox 1.1G, Install hardware pack for NXT support for LPC1768

Feb 2014 - Keil uVision MDK 5.01 - aprox 1G, I can't figure out how to get support for our hardware - NON-Functional

Jan 2014 - Quartus UPDS for ECE 423

Apr 2013 - Pasco DataStudio 1.9.8r10 as 1.9.8 does not have drivers for Win 7 x64. DataStudio 1.9.8 is in the stock install of Win 7, the GPO must apply over it. The driver is in C:\programs and Files (x86)\Pasco...

Feb 2013 - EMONA TutorTIMS - The installer jar file is buggy and outdated - it's fixed up with a replacement jar file

Jan 2013 - Git 1.8.0 http://git-scm.com/downloads. About 320M, doesn't work on the Q: disk - lots of registry keys, straight forward GPO install when the registry entries are cleaned up and RG0 file removed. Links in Start menu under "Git" software in Programs and Files (x86).

Dec 2012 - Android SDK bundle with Eclipse and support for Subclipse and API 10 - hellish install as it takes forever to build the MSI after installing API's - no registry keys? - USED TUQUE installer instead

Oct 2012 - Keil MDK 4.60 (2.34G installed) - new features needed by Irene

July 2012 - Keil MDK 4.54 - A basic install, license done later, remove BEM files

July 2012 - PostScript/GhostView 9.0.5 5.0 as the Nexus install was broken

Nov 2011 - ETap 11.0.0 - 8.07G

Oct 2011 - ETap 7.5.2 - 6.07G

Oct 2011 - removed 7Zip from Staff OU and NotePad++ 5.8.4 from all machines as Eng. Comp. distributes 5.9 now

Jan 2012 - Keil MDK 4.2.3 update

June 2011 - Keil MDK 4.2.0 update

June 2011 - LabVolt firmware (Control Interface 9063) updates at www.labvolt.com

2011??? - PowerWorld 13 demo

May 2011 - Tight VNC 2.0.2 - simple small install, tons of unnecessary server links - icons under Network Tools

Mar 2011 - FAILED! - CrystalMaker www.Crystalmaker.com : CrystalMaker 2.3.4 and Single Crystal 2.1.1 Demo versions - the licensed version was impossible to push - LOTS of special characters in file names.

Mar 2011 - Ocean Optics SpectraSuite - simple install, no registry keys ECE 209, NOTE: A module will LOCK itself to a particular machine (in the registry for the machine?? - this happens when the software is run (not driver install) the first time) the driver must be installed on EVERY USB port!

Jan 2011 - Keil uVision 4.12 - straight forward install, fairly clean registry diff, no license setup, I've been warned that it will want to rewrite some INI files. Building blinky as a Nexus user works. 824M

Oct 2010 - Paint.NET - the install goes easily but it doesn't deploy; requiring the admin to run pdnrepair to setup links to Visual Studio?

Oct 20, 2010 - AVIdemux 2.5.3 and VirtualDub 1.9 - simple install, Virtualdub just involved copying the files and creating a link to the GUI exec - only one reg. key for AVIdemux

July 20, 2010 - EagleCad Free 5.10.0 - simple install, must give users modify access to bin\eagle.key

July 20, 2010 - CamStudio 2.0 - simple install, no registry keys, makes AVI's of a part of, or the entire, screen.

July 6, 2010 - Miktex 2.8 - It works

May 18, 2010 - License for Sonnet 12.52 updated. But the user must set the license via Admin -> License and set the remote server to ece-lic using the default port 7852

Mar 11, 2010 - MicroCap 9.0.7.0 Demo - A nasty install as it wants to create index files to it's libraries on the read-only C: file system. Opening perms on the directory, and some files fixed that. From http://www.spectrum-soft.com/demoform.shtm

Mar 1, 2010 - Python 3.1.1 and Pexpect and PSerial for Irene

Feb 8, 2010 - XMing updated to 7.5.0.19 from 6.9.x

Dec 17, 2009 - Added PathEXT env. var to Python install

Sept 25, 2009 - ModelSim SE 6.5c

Sept 25, 2009 - Mozilla Sunbird 0.9 - it can be installed by the user as a plugin for Mozilla Thunderbird!

Sept 25, 2009 - GIMP 2.6.7 - no GAP (Animation Package), or help

July 13, 2009 - Notepad++ 5.4.4 to replace 5.1.4. Quick hack using IEEE as the Samba server. Checks for updates have been disabled.

Jun 10, 2009 - Quartus II 9.0 ( 3.9G, 32-bit only, no VHDL/Verilog samples), ModelSim AE (1.25G), NIOS (1.7G). Added IP cores for DE2 board from: http://www.altera.com/education/univ/materials/ip-cores/unv-ip-cores.html Note: USB-Blaster driver don't point to x32 directory just use C:\Software\Altera\90\quartus\drivers\usb-blaster

Mar 16, 2009 - Subversion client from http://www.sliksvn.com/en/download - provided as 32bit or 64bit MSI's

Feb 27, 2009 - ModelSim SE 6.2c for ECE327 - 447M - no hickups during the install - no 24 MSI build times

Feb 25, 2009 - GAMS 23 for MEng Room - working http://www.gams.com/download/

Feb 23, 2009 - Mentor Precision RTL for ECE327 - 935M - works

Feb 23, 2009 - GIMP 2.6.4 for general use - 83M - works

Feb 20, 2009 - Cygwin BASH for ECE 327 - many warnings building MSI, fails to install

Feb 20, 2009 - Audicity + Lame MP3 - 9M - working, installs and uninstalls without errors

Feb 20, 2009 - Perforce - installs and uninstalls without errors

July 6, 2008 - GHDL 0.26 http://ghdl.free.fr/ for VHDL syntax checking and simulation
It requires GTKwave (put on Q: disk) http://home.nc.rr.com/gtkwave/ for viewing simulation output (VCD files)

June 8, 2008 - PowerWorld for MEng lab http://www.PowerWorld.com in Q:\eng\ece\powerwor (Free demo version)

May 26, 2008 - NotePad Plus from Sourceforge, 13M

May 22, 2008 - JGrasp - http://www.jgrasp.org/ - visualization of VHDL, C and other languages via a JAVA program (requires JRE 1.5 or newer

Apr 6, 2008 - Quartus II 7.2 with ModelSim AE - 5.1G, monolithic install broken into 2 NAI files (aprox 25,000 lines each).

Apr 5, 2008 - GIMP 2.4.5

Jan 2008 - ETap 5.5.6 - In order to install start the program, enter the network license server IP and then enter the Activication Code.

Nov 30, 2007 - cwRsync in Q:\eng\ece\cwRsync\bin - worked as installed with restricted user perms on a local machine

Nov 14, 2007 - MPLab Latest, Install before join to Nexus, open permissions on MPLab by adding write perms

Sept 20, 2007 - Xming (64M) 6.9.0.28 and fonts (ALL fonts - 64M) upgraded to 6.9.0.40

Aug 10, 2007 - ETap 5.0.3 - MSI build failed "attempt to write a null value to a non-nullable field Directory.DefaultDir", 1.1G, the c:\windows\etaps.ini file must be edited adding the license server and license auth method as well as a line for the CD key

Aug 10, 2007 - Java 2 SE Dev Kit 6 update 2 (less JRE as it's supplied by Nexus), 341M

Aug 10, 2007 - (Java EE Suite 5 update 2) = Java Tools Suite (NetBeans 5.5 (IDE and Enterprise Pack), Java Platform 5 SKD update 2, Agent 2.2 and more), 193M

July 31, 2007 - UW Pflow from http://thunderbox.uwaterloo.ca/~claudio/software/pflow.htm installed in Q:\eng\ece\pflow-xp Note that I tried an install to C: but the batch files were hardcoded to "uwpflow.exe" but the provided executable was "Win uwpflow.exe". Also the help file was with the source and not with the executable. the executable, help and ocx file were all copied to q:\eng\ece\util
To run the software run uwpflow on Q:\eng\ece\util

June 30, 2007 - Nero OEM 6 and Nero BurnRights software to allow non-admins to use Nero software. Need to remove desktop icon for Nero, BurnRights also doesn't work until I set permissions to admin only, then back to all users, then reboot. Otherwise backup of network drives worked flawlessly; although with long time delays that made me think the software was hung (pre and post burn).

April 20, 2007 - LabVolt LVdam-ems 17M for Motors lab. The install did not work and "wedged" the machine. Ie the software would only work for the administrator and could NOT be uninstalled by anyone!
A manual install was then used. HOWEVER, the 2 drivers used by the software MUST BE REINSTALLED BY TDE ADMINISTRATOR if the computer boots and the Lab-Volt equipment is not powered up and connected!!!

April 4, 2007 - Removed MikTex (unused), Agilent-ADS2002 (unused), NIOS directory for Quartus 6.1

April 4, 2007 - Xming (63M) and fonts (63M) upgraded to 6.9.0.23

April 4, 2007 - Quartus II 7.0 (1.75G) with NIOS II 7.0 (2.2G with VHDL & Verilog samples, 1.75G without) and IPcores 7.0 (250M) IPCores is now necessary for NIOS. I striped supported devices. NIOS doesn't work properly. Opened up permissions on C:\Software\altera\70\quartus\bin\cygwin\tmp

Mar 15, 2007 - Pasco DataStudio 1.9.8 - Drivers must be installed manually by the admin. The admin must run the software once and set the correct input source or else the software always crashes for users (file? registry key? created?? The admin must also run it once and enter the license which gets stored in the registry and displayed to each user.

Feb 26, 2007 - J2EE 1.4.03 SDK for ECE493-TS It just looks like an older Java SDK but it's supposed to be a development environment using any installed Java version. Had to open permissions to the directories c:\Software\j2eeske1.4.03\[domains, derby, bin\sun-appserv-samples] admin, ece2vm!yea admin port 4848 http 8080 https 8081, embeded admin in user pref file
Sample tutorial files installed in Software\j2eeske1.4.03\J2ee-tutorial-Samples

Feb 7, 2007 - Quartus II 6.1 (1.65G) - no 64 bit support (aprox 400M), no VHDL or Verilog examples (about 700M), droped APEX support to reduce size and NIOS (1.75G).

Nov 27, 2006 - Python 2.5 install. MSI was not DAS buildable until I really cleaned out registry keys. Reported working by Ed June 27, 2007 - WRONG - error python25.dll not found

Nov 2?, 2006 - ModelSim 6.1d for Altera

Nov 22, 2006 - MiTex 2.5.2449, full install (430M), tons of errors when building MSI (takes 1 hour!); but it builds one. Hacking the MSI to fix start menu slowdown is very slow too

Nov 15, 2006 - Xming 6.9.0.21 - X11 without Cygwin, (10.4M memory used) 140M + extra binaries, To use it open a Putty session with X11 forwarding enabled and start Xming. I had no luck getting XmingLauncher working.

Sept 12, 2006 - ETap license server updated from version 5.0.3 to 5.5 tcp port 6260 (default)
TCP scan of port 6260 added to Nagios server for monitoring
This DOES NOT WORK!. The client failes with an error about needing a WAN license. The hardlock does not work for a non-networked machine. The 5.5 license also does not appear to work with version 5.0.3 client.
The software can be downloaded with Internet Explorer from here: \\ieee.uwaterloo.ca\Nexus_Software\ETap5.5

July 30, 2006 - Agilent ADS (Advanced Design System) 2002, typical install, directory set to c:\temp\users\default, Size 1.4 GBytes, takes > 1 hour to compile MSI, Registry fairly clean, massive number of files

July 25, 2006 - ETap 5.0.3 license server up, 20 users - it reports 3 error messages at bootup but they can be ignored. Uses TCP port 6260. Size 1.01 GBytes
Use the license server ECE-LIC.uwaterloo.ca TCP port 6260 and get the software with Internet Explorer from here: \\ieee.uwaterloo.ca\Nexus_Software\ETap5.0.3
NOTE: edit c:\windows\etaps.ini and add this line:
LM TCP Server=ece-lic.uwaterloo.ca

July 24, 2006 - Altera Quartus II 6.0 - 1.4G, disabled support for all but Cyclone 2 and removed all drivers, works March 2007 - TDIS INSTALL IS SNOOKERED - IT CAN'T BE UNINSTALLED!!

May 29, 2006 - ETap 5.0.3 software, MSI doesn't build, modifiy c:\windows\etaps.ini for supporting our license server LM TCP Server=ece-lic

May 18, 2006 - MPLab 7.3.1 - can't build DAS version. Generally very messy install - tons of registry keys

Feb 26, 2006 - Quartus II 5.1 SP1 (1.14G) installed without support for many other FPGAs and CPLDs

Feb 26, 2006 - NIOS II 5.1 SP1 (1.07G) installed without Verilog Examples

Feb 21, 2006 - ECE 456 - MySQL 5.0, TomCat and Java MySQL Connector. MySQL is an MSI that is hard to build. The service doesn't allow an MSI to be built - without the service the DAS version can't be built until the registry keys are radically striped!
Royal Screwup - This software requires server.xml to be user writeable as it must be modified with every app the user creates. That'll mean that any user can corrupt a vital config file and in addition the config file will get appended to again and again until it's corrupted.

There are Tomcat issues with server.xml as the user xml file must be in a user writeable space like c:\...\users Also various directories must be created and permissions opened up conf/users, work, webapps, logs, temp Note that the stock webapps directory was copied to a different name.

Feb, 2006 Quartus II 5.1, NIOS II 5.0 & 5.1 - straight forward, strip out driver as it's not needed. Hotpatch for 5.1 was messy SP1 was made a seperate MSI.

Jan 26, 2006 - GIMP 2.2.10 - 103M - *** First attempt incorrect path change so that DLL's were not found***

Jan 26, 2006 - Quartus II 5.0 - 1.03G & NIOS aprox 500M

Jan 26, 2006 - EagleCad 4.0 - 23.5M - The license file needs to be manually installed after the software is pushed.

Nov 3, 2005 - TomCat for JWSDP and SJSAS Personal 8.1.02 - TomCat is not working properly yet

Sept 14, 2005 - Sun JWSDP 1.6 - added c\gen\J2SDK1.4.2.05\J2SDK1.4.2.05 path added_DAS
Select no "web container" need to run jwsdp-1.6/wsdp-shared/bin/jwsdpontomcat to add web containers.

Java WSDP 1.6 Bundle http://java.sun.com/webservices/download/webservicespack.html Application Server http://java.sun.com/j2ee/1.4/download.html#sdk Tomcat for WSDP (needed if you are running the Service Registry locally) http://java.sun.com/webservices/containers/tomcat_for_JWSDP_1_5.html

Sept 6, 2005 - Added C18 Compiler 2.40 Student Edition (not optimizations) to MPLab

Sept 6, 2005 - Upgraded MPLab to 7.21 and PicCLite to 8.05pl2
This doesn't work as it fails when trying to install files as a restricted user. Also it doesn't uninstall because it tries to modify c:\windows\windowsupdate.log

Mar 26, 2005, VPI 6.5 with SVG viewer 3.0 and Java 1.4.2. The SVG viewer does not seem to work (even for Admin) as project schematics can not be viewed but simulations run on Win 2000. I'm unable to build a DAS MSI as it dies while trying to build it. Many students report numerous problems with Win XP SP2 on home computers.
My XP install includes the Adobe SVG viewer (4M) and VPI Player (44M) yet the install size is 90+M! The Adobe SVG viewer pops a license to agree to when run the first time.

Nov 22, 2004, GIMP version 2.0.5 with help, gtk+ and the animation package. GIMP is 50MB while GTK is 18MB

Oct 14, 2004, SMART HD monitoring for Linux, Solaris, BSD, Windows (1.0M memory use)

Oct 4, 2004, Borland Together CE 6.3 for Eclipse - 63M. It ties itself to an installed version of Java and doesn't work if it's not there. It doesn't seem to care about Java in the registry, doesn't use the environment variable "Java Home" and hardwires scripts to the existing Java at time of install. The TogetherEC.bat file has to be edited to point to a Java SDK install and the TOGETDER_HOME section near the end has to point to a writeable workspace (nonewriteable will result in errors about the workspace being "in use".

Sept 16, 2004 (removed April 2010), Borland JBuilder X Foundation. It's downloadable from: www.borland.com
As before you must point it to the license at C:\Software\Eng\ECE\reg426.txt at runtime.

Aug 16, 2004 - Ecliplse software for ECE 355 does not work on Q: as it creates a directory tree under "configuration". It's run via c:\Software\Eng\ECE\eclipse\eclipse.exe

Aug 4, 2004 - Xilinx WebPack 6.2 SP3 (710M) Have to xcopy /E/H/S because there are 0 length files that otherwise don't get copied. Broke into 2 pieces but MSI was still > 2 hours to build so I broke the slow 1/2 down to 2 pieces and still > 2 hours to build.
ModelSim refused to run if the two %WINDOWS%\mti* files existed!
This is what ModelSim Tech Support had to say:
The system file gets written with the evaluation version, and some of the free versions of ModelSim. I would suggest that you use the educational licenses that Mentor Graphics supplies. You will get the full version of ModelSim which will not write these files. http://www.mentor.com/partners/hep/

June 2004 - Sonnet 9.53 - www.sonnetusa.com

Apr 2004 - Testing - Xilinx WebPack 6.2 (724M installed)

Feb 2004 - Testing - cwRsync 1.2.1 cdRsync

Jan 2004 - WebPack 6.1 SP3 - This didn't work reliably for all users. In some cases we had license file problems (problem solved) as well as map.exe dying with strange errors (resetting the profile solved this most of the time).

Installed

Jan 26, 2009 - Java3D on Nexus - deployed in public rooms

Dec 3, 2007 - Upgraded ETap on ece-lic from version 5.3.0 to 5.5.6 (first Win Vista compatable version)

Nov 1, 2007 - GIMP 2.4 -

July 31, 2006 - GIMP 2.2.12 - 116M - slow startup like 2.2.10

August 18, 2005 - GIMP 2.2.8 + GAP + Help + GTK - straight forward install - 71M

August 18, 2005 - Eclipse 3.1, UML, EMF, XSD, GEF - Trivial install - just unzip!, 120M

August 17, 2005 - Eclipse CDT - 11M

July 11, 2005 - Dia 0.94 - Drawing program like MS Visio

June 28, 2005 - Sonnet 10.52 using local license server (area51)

July 2004 - NTsyslog 1.13 (1.8M memory used) ntsyslog web page This works from the server. NOTE: Winblows syslogs from ANY high numbered port - but Linux only syslogs from port 514 for security.

June 2004 - PSCad 4.1 for HV research and grad. level courses. We only have the Educational License - not the Professional one - DELETE the link to start the Professional version!
NOTE: The compiler for this does not work - not even for the local admin

Apr 2004 - Hi-Tech Software free C compiler for PIC version 8.02pl1 installing links to MPLAB - no MPLAB patches applied
This software is not run - but is used by creating a project in MPLAB and then selecting the HiTech toolset.

Apr 2004 - PIC programmer software PicMicro MPLab tools version 6.5 with VDIsetup (169M installed). Here is some good PIC Info The PIC programmer S/W at Microchip programmer site

The IDE does not start up for Restricted Users - but it works for Power Users. You have to add +write permissions for the c:\Program Files\MPLab IDE\ directory

Dec 2003 - PSpice 9.2 - To install: Select PSpice and Capture, not Capture CIS. It uses "PSpice 9.2 Security.inf" security settings. Just installing PSpice itself worked on a machine - but the MSI would not install on any other computer.
Ray fixed up the install Oct 2004 - opening up directory permissions then locking all files as read-only. The original version wanted a reboot after a lengthly install after user login. It also poped registry errors at startup on XP.

Nov 13, 2003 - Testing PSpice 9.2 - aprox 50M install, tons of registry crap. Install failes with failed to register PIPspice.dll - a manual MSI install - ignoreing the error installs the software properly. Web search indicates need to regsvr32 "C:path_to_dll" also tried /noautoregister on dll line in NAI but that reported that the option was only available for installed software!??

Nov 5, 2003 - Testing Quartus II 3.0 and NIOS 3.1 install - 1.4G, deleted all FPGAs From Apex II .. Cyclone, Selected Quartus 3, not GnuTools/Excalibur and ModelSim on the first CD. Then I added SP #2 (8,379 lines NAI, 231 reg lines) and then the Full Nios SDK CD (24,355 lines NAI, 16 reg lines). Works with new lic. file.
Oct. 2003 - Xilinx WebPack 6.1 + SP2 install + ModelSim - 750M (26,203 lines NAI and 558 + 112 reg lines)
It takes 4.25 hours to build the MSI file on a 1.3 GHz machine (split into 2 pieces of 15,000 lines each).
The License.dat file conflicts with Altera Quartus as the licence can not contain floating licenses without running a local server! Similarily a fixed license ahead of the floating license does not work with Quartus II 3.0.
Everything works with Nexus-Windows XP and 2000.
A flag can be set to ignore unused pin constraints but it's a per-project flag and put into the project PDF file - so it's not a global variable.
Registry keys - set to 0 Automatic web update, check updates at startup, CPLD update. Set the default editor to be text for pins, disable project wizard??
Download via Impact requires the administrator to run it once - then it works on almost no stations. Programming the PROM (first JTAG device) is reliable.
Defunct - September 17 - redoing ISE 5.2 install with SP3 + ModelSim fixes - ran into licence issues with ModelSim - the install is taking 24 hours to build the MSI file!! the Flex_LM environment variable is not done properly - it will break the Quartus software if both are installed in the same computer.
I'm unable to get a normal user running this software. Everything works for the admin. but it dies with license errors if a user tries to start it - even if they have full access to the files and many of the registry keys. Diffing the files and registry when the admin. runs it revealed that winnt/mti_enc* and winnt/system32/m3.dll are modified. Also the registry key HKLM/Software/Model Technology/Evaluation
Spartan II chips do not support a built in osc. for button debouncing.
Deleted the file win32xoem/mti_em if it complains that the registry file is invalid.
ModelSim license authentication breaks if anything changes - ie the date of the computer is set back - requiring a full reinstall!!
September 15, 2003 - Xilinx ISE 5.2i (1.0G) and ModelSim 5.6 (198M) - the administrator must log in once and run iMPACT in order to get FPGA to be programed by regular user
Tweaking - October 28, 2002 - Sun Forte (87M) and Java 1.4.1 (107M), very low registry usage, requires user to answer setup questions at first start
The problem is that the user must manually set it up when they first run it! Sun says that 256+M of RAM and 1+ GHz is minimum spec.
Tweaking - October 28, 2002 - Borland JBuilder 7 Personal (uses Java 1.3.1) It seems to use as much memory as Forte
The problem is that the user must manually point the software to the license file C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\JBuilder-reg61.txt
Testing - October 22, 2002 - Visual Studio .NET - 2.1G install without the server apps taking 10M of extra registry. Asus CUV4x and TUV4x motherboards (at least) require a patch of 3 DLL's (zipped) before the install can proceed. IE 6.0 and a truckload of other things are required. It seems to co-exist with a previous version of Visual Studio.
Soon - Winter 2002 - PSpice 9.1 (student version) http://www.pspice.com (www.orcad.com/Product/simulation/pspice/pspsvrl.htm) [ March 2002 - testing install of new PSpice ]
Need to upgrade Austex (Defiant) Coldfire assembler to version 2.02

Testing - November 2002 - Xilinx WebPack / Foundation ISE 5.1i (542M) [ECE 223]
Testing - June 21, 2002 - SigFun

Feb. 2003 - Dia version 0.90 - A block diagram / flow / UML diagram tool that is a simple version of Visio; easier to use and available for Windows and Unix. Dia Web page
EEE (Engineering Equation Solver) upgraded by Bernie on Nexus Q: disk
Oct 2002 - New installs use SP3, Direct X 8.1, new SMC 9432 eth driver, IE 5.5 patches
Summer 2002 - Borland Turbo C/C++ version 3.0 (DOS based - same as Polaris)
Aug 23, 2002 - PSpice 8.0 (in the Start Menu under ECE) [ECE 241]
Aug 20, 2002 - Starting to deploy SP3 for W2k - installs only 50% of the time on lab machines. Remove C:\Documents and Settings\Default User\Application Data\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Quick Launch and c:\document and settings\all users\ start menu\set program access and defaults.lnk
Aug 20, 2002 - Borland Turbo Prolog 2.0 (1987 vintage, DOS based) [ECE 251]
June 21, 2002 - Watfile [ECE Staff use]
June 21, 2002 - PowerWorld [ECE 465]
June 21, 2002 - Power Flow - UWPflow from www.power.uwaterloo.ca (under Claudio)
June 21, 2002 - my DOS Scope.exe program [ECE 100]
June 11, 2002 - added OpenOffice 1.0 (formerly Star Office) http://www.openoffice.org - had to open user +w/modify on user/config directory
June 4, 2002 - added new P&E Micro Assembler C:\Software\eng\ece\Coldfire\casmcfz.exe [Windows version 3.1 - works on machines > 600 MHz] and C:\Software\eng\ece\Coldfire\WinIDE32.exe (also under the start menu in the ECE folder) Note: WinIDE tries to overwrite the INI (WinIDE.ini) file upon exit and since the file is not writeable you have to manually kill the app to shut it down.
June 3, 2002 - Upgraded Quartus NIOS to version 2.1
April 2002 - run "Q:\gen\etc\create xwin32 icons.js" to setup the license file and icons for X-Windows
April 29 2002 - upgraded Defiant Coldfire assembler to version 1.9, linker to version 1.28, cfmake ver 1.1
April 2002 - installed SP2 for Windows
April 2002 - installed Quartus 2.0 Byteblaster fix, NIOS 2.0 BASH fix, NIOS 2.0 samples (328M 3,600 files)
March 2002 - started installing GCC for Coldfire (Cygwin conflicts with Altera??)

March 14 2002 - added NetOpt (1988 version!) to basic install for testing
March 14 2002 - Putty 0.52 - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty for SSH connection to Unix
Feb 20, 2002 - Quartus 2 ver 2.0 (350M) with NIOS (HW) 2.0 - striped without samples
Feb 6, 2002 - Quartus 2 ver 1.1 - striped down to only support 200k part (687M install)
Jan 20, 2002 - GVim 6.0 [icons under Text editors or type vim or gvim to run] - from ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/pc - I installed vim60rt.zip, vim60w32 (vim60d32.zip on Polais), vim60lang.zip, gvim60ole.zip
Jan 2002 - Putty - a SSH / telnet program - C:\software\eng\ece\util\putty.exe
Jan 15, 2002 - Fixed up Hyperterm with default configurations for Coldfire [ECE 222, 324, 354]
Jan 4, 2002 - added Daves Coldfire emulator C:\software\eng\ece\Coldfire (www.lightbox.org/coldfire)
Fall 2001 - GnuPlot 3.7 C:\software\eng\ece\gnuplot.exe (type gnuplot at DOS)
Fall 2001 - Quartus 2 ver 1.0 - 2G total (GNU NIOS 155M, Leonardo 26M, Byte Blast 55k, Nios SW 180M, NIOS HW 184M, Flex 3.5M, Quartus 1.4G, Quartus slim 450M)
Fall 2001 - Xilinx Foundation 3.1i (327M)

It does not program FPGAs but seems to work otherwise

Fall 2001 - Visual Prolog 5.2 (in the start menu) (50M)
Eng. Comp. Suites - Maple (57M), Mathcad (106M), Matlab (67M), MS Visual Suite (790M)

Polaris
Note: In order to use much of this installed software you will have to run Q:\eng\ece\utl\menu.bat and, probably, reboot. If it isn't in the path run it from Q:\eng\ece\utl\menu.bat

EEE (Engineering Equation Solver) upgraded by Bernie on Polaris Q: disk
July 3, 2002 - upgraded Austex (Defiant) Coldfire assembler to version 2.02
June 4, 2002 - added new P&E Micro Assembler (command line) Q:\eng\ece\68000\casmcfz.exe [Windows version 3.1 - works on machines > 600 MHz] and Q:\eng\ece\68000\winide32.exe for the IDE version. Note: WinIDE tries to overwrite the INI file upon exit and since the file is not writeable you have to manually kill the app to shut it down.
May 30, 2002 - upgraded Austex (Defiant) Coldfire assembler to version 2.0, linker to version 1.80, cfmake ver 1.3
April 29 2002 - upgraded Defiant Coldfire assembler to version 1.9, linker to version 1.28, cfmake ver 1.1
March 14 2002 - Putty 0.52 - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty
Jan 2002 - Putty 0.51 - a SSH / telnet program - Q:\eng\ece\utl\putty.exe
Jan 20, 2002 - GVim 6.0 [type vim or gvim to run]
Jan 4, 2002 - added Daves Coldfire emulator - Q:\eng\ece\68000\coldfire
Fall 2001 - GnuPlot 3.7
Early 2001 - PSpice 8 (use the Menu command to add it)
Early 2001 - WinCVS (Windows CVS client), Visual Prolog, PSpice, Terraterm SSH - run Q:\eng\ece\utl\menu.bat to install the start menu items. A reboot may be required. - http://wwww.CvsGui.org
1999 - GCC for Coldfire. Run Q:\eng\ece\utl\cf.bat or use the old file server and run k:\utl\cf.bat --> In both cases only the DOS box that you ran cf.bat in will properly run GCC
1999 - Visual Prolog 5.2

Notes

Syncronize setup - synchro.uwaterloo.ca:3

Student Photo System

Tile software developed Oct 1994 but was based on PBM tools before that (Smooth.exe July 1985) but was based on PBM tools before that
Used for ECE Staff and Faculty pictures Nov. 1996

ECE 324 Computers

1996 -> 2001 Intel 8097 custom computer board
2002 -> 2006 Altera Apex 20KE FPGA board
2006 -> 2015 Altera DE2 FPGA board
2015? Altera DE0-SoC?

ECE 222 Computers

Motorola EXORciser II 6800 System 1978 (quanty 5?)
Plessey 6800 VME (?) System 198? (quanty 5? 10?)
Motorola Educational 68000 Computer 1981 (quanty 10)
1998 -> 2001 Motorola 5206 Coldfire computers by Arnewsh Inc 1996 (quanty 40)
2002 -> 2012 MCF5307 Coldfire computers made CJ Designs (quanty 90)
2012+ Keil MCB 1700

E2-3344 Windows 7 Setup

May 2012

ni4882273.exe
visa462full.exe (doesn't work with LVBode - Need 5.2.0 from Dec 2012
LVRuntime 5.1
DataCapture400
IOSuite 16.2 (remove firewall rules)

E2-3344

Summer 2012 - Install Agilent InteliLink + Data IO libraries for data capture from new scopes as Kevin's software doesn't support USB equipment yet.
Mar 2010 - The existing GPIB driver does not support hibernation. Hibernate had to be disabled.
Dec 2008 - Upgrading to new AMD computers with a new install image. We use version LabView 5.1 compact executables and so are limited to NI488.2 driver 1.7 (current is 2.6). Driver >1.6 is needed for support for new GPIB cards. http://digital.ni.com/public.nsf/allkb/2BFCEE471BECB95F862574020059117E
IOSuite 14.2 (2006) is the first to support USB such as our 82357A USB to GPIB converters
NI-488.2 version 2.2 is the first to support USB
"moving to Labview 6.1 is not hard" (July 30, 2009)
April 2002 - upgraded Labview to 6.02 (6i + Service pack)
April 2002 - upgraded Windows with SP2

Standalone Win 98

Basic Win 98 + NAV + ZIP + Misc + W98 cab files = 600m
Matlab (5.3?) 644M + 300M documentation

Special Computers

ISA P4 motherboard

SSD Speed - AHCI vs IDE - Windows 7 - July 2015

The following are performance tests using Samsung Magician software and Samsung EVO 840 and 850 250G SSDs with an Asus P8H77-M motherboard, 8G of RAM

Being tested was different BIOS settings: IDE or AHCI configuration and 3GB/s or 6GB/s SATA connection.

In Win 7 it's critical that two services be set to auto-start at boot time or changing from IDE to AHCI will bluescreen the machine. Change the start variable from the default of 3 to 0 for these two keys:
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Service\msahci
HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Service\iastorV

Windows 7 performance tests, with a HD, were done with a 2012 vintage 500G WD hard drive. Linux tests, with a HD, were doing using a 2008 vintage 160G WD drive.

SSD Model, Computer	Conditions		Samsung SSD Magician Perf. Test				Windows 7 HD Perf Test
			Sequential		IOPS
	Speed	IDE or AHCI	Read	Write	Read	Write
Samsung EVO 850 250G, testbed	3GB/sec	IDE	212	236	8551	13712	-
Samsung EVO 850 250G, testbed	6GB/sec	AHCI	438	486	63898	62946	-
WD 500G 7200rpm, testbed	3GB/sec	IDE	98	100	208	410	5.9
WD 500G 7200rpm, testbed	6GB/sec	AHCI	109	105	448	397	5.9
EVO 840, public06	6GB/sec	AHCI	550	241	62207	4019	7.9
EVO 850, public10	3GB/sec	IDE	202	226	8276	13605	7.9
EVO 850, public10	6GB/sec	AHCI	436	487	62040	62074
EVO 850, testbed	3GB/sec, Win updates installing	IDE	208	222	6398	13511
	3GB/sec	IDE	211	227	7903	13626	7.3
	6GB/sec	IDE	309	371	8943	16635	7.7
	3GB/sec	AHCI	284	269	50446	43355
	6GB/sec	AHCI	550	469	60348	65448	7.9
WD 500G HD Testbed & lab computers	3GB/sec	IDE					5.9
	6GB/sec	IDE					5.9
	6GB/sec	AHCI					5.9

Bonnie++ 1.03 test results for Linux using a 2008 vintage 160G WD HD first at 3GB/sec with IDE and the 2nd at 6GB/sec with AHCI

Server	Setup	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks
Server	Setup	Size	Per Char K/sec	%CP	Per Block K/sec	%CP	Rewrite K/Sec	%CP	Per Chr K/sec	%CP	Block	%CP	Random Seeks /sec	%CP	Files
Linux Testbed 2008 vintage 160G WD HD	IDE, 3GBs	15720M	99215	82	103960	9	47025	4	98752	90	128712	7	203.7	0	16
Linux Testbed 2008 vintage 160G WD HD	AHCI, 6GBs	15720M	105761	87	103348	8	46492	4	92428	83	118931	4	192.0	0	16
Linux Testbed 250G EVO 850 SSD IMPROVED	IDE, 3GBs	15720M	115854	97	250008	23	101661	11	110786	99	243710	15	9787.4	30	16
Linux Testbed 250G EVO 850 SSD IMPROVED	AHCI, 6GBs	15720M	113149	95	308149	26	182605	15	113467	99	656404	30	+++++	+++	16
Linux eceSVN DDR2, M3A785T-M, 2.5GHz 160G WD HD	IDE, 3GBs	15G	72777	98	109252	43	44443	21	45691	92	136898	25	255.9	1	16
Linux eceSVN DDR2, M3A785T-M, 2.5GHz 160G WD HD	AHCI, 3GBs	15G	70148	95	108934	40	43686	20	43949	92	138138	25	280.0	1	16
Linux testBed, 1TB WD 10k rpm Velociraptor	IDE, 3GBs	15720M	108624	90	196638	17	91043	10	104320	94	232484	14	413.4	2	16
Linux testBed, 1TB WD 10k rpm Velociraptor	AHCI, 6GBs	15720M	113884	95	195132	17	84157	8	105111	93	215252	10	586.9	1	16
eceUbuntu-opt-directory	IDE, 3GBs	47360M	91171	99	119559	22	68295	14	91713	98	262224	31	470.2	2	16	25134	80

Harddrive Speed (RedHat)

hdparm -c1 (32-bit xfer) -d1 (DMA) enabled unless otherwise stated.

Speed tests are read tests hdparm -t and -T in square brackets []

2011 15k SAS HD 300G, 4 in RAID 6: 250 MB/sec
2009 7200rpm SATA II HD 1TB green WD, 6 in RAID 6: 250 MB/sec
2010 10k rpm SATA II HD 600G WD, 2 in Raid 1: 180 MB/sec
2010 SSD SATA II 80G: 175 MB/sec
2010 10k rpm SATA II HD 300G WD, 2 in software Raid 1: 120 MB/sec
2009 7200rpm SATA II HD 160G: 110 MB/sec
2009 7200rpm SATA II HD 1.5TB WD "green": 95 MB/sec
2009 7200rpm SATA II HD 500G: 71 MB/sec
2004 PATA HD 40G: 48 MB/sec (software mirroring CentOS 5)
2007 Vintage 7,200 rpm 500G SATA with 3Ware RAID Controller in RAID 5, Core 2 Duo with Centos 5.2: 74MB/sec[6150 MB/sec] (Nov 2008)
2007 Vintage 7,200 rpm 500G SATA in Core 2 Duo with Centos 5.2: 83MB/sec [7350 MB/sec] (Nov 2008)
2004 Vintage 10,000 rpm Ultra320 SCSI in Sunfire 65x with Centos 5.2: 65MB/sec [1250 MB/sec] (Nov 2008)
2002 Vintage 5,400 rpm (?) 4G PATA in P3-600MHz with RedHat 9.0: 9MB/sec [140MB/sec] (Nov 2008)
2002 Vintage 7,200 rpm 30G PATA in first generation P4 with Centos 5.2: 50MB/sec [780MB/sec] (Nov 2008)
As above (no DMA): 6MB/sec, (16bit xfer -c0): 46MB/sec (Nov 2008)

Historical Computer Purchases

Jul 2016 - Asus H170M with DDR4
Mar 2016 - Asus H97M
Dec 2015 - retired the last of the AMD CPU Asus M2 and M4A motherboards from use in Nexus
Nov 2015 - retiring the last Pentium IV computers from ECE 380 lab
June 2015 - 3.6GHz Intel i3-4160, 8G DDR3 RAM, H81M-C/CSM motherboards (CPU $160, MB $75, RAM $94)
Nov 2014 - 4TB drives for the backup server, 1TB Samsung EVO SSDs for serveres
Feb 2014 - 3.4GHz Intel i3-4130, 8G DDR3 RAM, P8H77-M or P8H87-M or H81M-C/CSM motherboards (CPU $145, MB $76 to $124, RAM $96) - retiring Asus M2NMX-SE Plus with 4G
Sept 2012 - 3.3GHz Intel i3-3120, 8G DDR3 RAM, Asus P8H77-M MB, $470 ea (30W vs 45W for AMD with slightly better performance)
July 2012 - M5A88-M/CSA motherboard ($110), 2x4G $102, vs P8H77M $125 and Intel i3 2100 $135
Nov 2011 - 3.4GHz x2 AMD for offices and some labs, 8-core AMD for servers
Jul + Nov 2010 - M4A785T-M/CSAM $98AMD CPU 3.1GHz x2-255 $82, CPU 1055T x6 2.8GHz $215
July 2009 - M3A78-CM $83, 2G DDR2 $34, LE1660 2.8GHz $52, Phenom 3.1GHz "550" $127
July 2008 - 15 AMD 2.7GHZ Athlon 64 2G, 160G Sata II HD, $311 ea
July 2008 - Home Hardware donated 26 + 30 (+30 more) P4 (1.8, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8 GHz), Intel NIC, NVidia, 512M
June 2008 - Supermicro MB, Xeon 5410, 4G DDR2, 2 x 73G 15krpm SAS, Adaptec 5405 RAID card $2,675
Apr 2008 - 15 AMD 2.4GHZ Athlon 64, Asus M2N-MX SE Plus M/B, 1G, 160G SATA II HD, $350 + tax ea
M2N-VM motherboard went obsolete
Mar 2008 - Eng. Comp. buying AMD 3.2GHz 6400 , 2G, 160G HD system $725
Dec 2008 - 10 AMD 2.4GHZ Athlon 64 M2N-VM M/B, 1G, 160G HD
Oct 2007 - P5B Asus MB, Core 2 2.4GHz CPU, 3Ware RAID, 2G DDR2, 5x750G HDD backup system $3,150
Apr 2007 - 7 AMD 2.2GHz Athlon 64 A8N-VM motherboard, 1G ram, 80G HD, $480 + tax each
May 2007 - 20 AMD Athlon 64 "3500" 2.2GHz, Asus M2NPV-M motherboard, 1G ram, 80G HD, $410 + tax (MENG Lab)
Apr 2007 - thirty 1.5GHz P4's from Eng. Computing (512M, 40G HD, WOL eth cards
Mar 2005 - Dual Opteron 1.6GHz, 2G ECC RAM, 2 x 160G HD in case $2100
Feb 2004 - 2.5 GHz Celeron, 60G HD, 512M ram ($607)
Nov 2003 - 1.3 GHz Celeron, 60G HD, 512M ram to upgrade 466 MHz systems ($420 ea)
April 2003 - 1.4 GHz Celeron, 40G HD, 512M ram to upgrade 333 MHz systems ($560 ea)
Sept 2002 - K6-2/333 M/B's are blowing up.
December 2002 $750 - Celeron 1.0G & 1.2GHz, 256M, 40G HD for Nexus upgrade
September? 2000 - Celeron 500 MHz, 15G, 128M
February 2000 - Celeron 466 MHz, 15G, 128M ($937)
January 2000 - Celeron 433 Mhz (public room), 8G, 64M We have to buy Intel as AMD's > 333MHz don't work with Win 95 due to a Windows bug
Nov, Dec 1998 - K6-2/333 MHz (32M, 4G HD) upgrade for public room
April 1998 $900 - Pentium 200, 32M, 2G HD
August 1997 - Pentium 133, 32M, 2G HD, Polaris upgrade, "trailing edge"
January 1997 - Pentium 133, 16M, 2G HD, Watstar, "leading edge" computers
? - 486/50-66
March 1992 - 486 / 33 MHz
November 1991 - 386 / 33 MHz
? 1990 - 286
1985 - HP 64100 logic development system (Motorola 68000 based)
1984 - Watstar computer system (4.7 MHz IBM PC's)
1983 - Janet computer system
Sept 1980 - Gimix microcomputer
Febuary 1979 - Rockwell AIM 6502 microcomputer
1976 - Silent 700 (Texas Inst) terminal
Jan 1976 - DEC PDP11/40 16k parity memory, 30 cps console $17,640, extended instruciton set (multiply, divide) $1544, floating point option $1680, dual floppy disk $4095, bootstrap loader $525, real time clock $368
Jan 196 PDFP 11/40 32k parity , memory management 24M disk and controller, $37,380
April 29, 1973 - DEC KP15 process, 16k core memory, console, papertape station, real time clock DECtape Drive, RK15 Disk Drive $59,600, additional 16k core $14k, graphic usit with 17" scope $24,000, alphagraphic printer $11,700, 300 cpm card reader $4,860, 300 lpm line printer $17,500, disk drive $5,100

Monitor Purchases

Oct 2013 - 24" LED LG or ViewSonic $165 to $188 for Labs
Oct 2012 - 22" LED LG or ViewSonic $175 for Labs
Nov 2011 - 24" LED LG wide-screen $210 for Linux Lab
Sept 2011 - 22" LED 2211 model $150
Dec 2010 - Viewsonic VX1932WM LCD $165
Sep 2010 - E2240T-PN 22" LCD $190
May 2010 - LG W2043T-PF 20" LCD $146
Mar 2009 - LG W2242 22" LCD monitor $206
July 2008 - Purchase of LG 20" LCD wide-screen $219
Nov 8, 2007 - surplus of old monitors. In the future there will be a fee of $12 per monitor for disposal
17" LCD L1753T LG $205, June 2007
19" LCD for MENG lab $256 ea, May 2007
17" LCD for labs (WEEF) $205 ea, Apr 2007
19" LCD for some Staff $280 ea, Dec 2006
17" for general use $170 each - Jan 2004, Oct 2004
19" for general use $285 each - August 2002
19" (first use) $490 ea - March 2000
17" Tatung or TTX CRT monitor $280
17" for public room - Winter 1999
17" for P200's $485 ea - April 1998 (first use of 17")
15" for public room P133's - Jan 1997 (first use of 15")
14" for 386's - Sept 1991
12" mono - 1985

Network Equipment

Oct 2010 - HP Procurve 2650 switch from EBay $149
Dec 2007 - Moving to HP Procure Gbit equipment with fiber Gbit backbone and 10Gbit backbone between buildings
Dlink 500TX ("Dec Tulip for linux - 21140") does not work in Auto-detect with SMC auto-switch or Bay 450's (??)
Nortel / Baystack 450's - May 1999 (purchased till 2003)
10 Mbit hubs (for labs) - April 1998
Pre 1998 - IBM Token Ring Pronet with some thick coax cable

Operating Systems - ECE

Janet 1983?
Watstar - 1984 .. April 2003 (mostly disabled Sept 1997)
We used VT terminals during this era.
Feb 1998 Summary: 67 computers, 38 standalone DOS
Breakdown: 2356 (15), public (20), 2363 (18), 2364 (10), 3371 (16), Paul/Bill (19)
Waterloo Polaris - Windows 95A - Sept 1997 .. April 2003
Nov 1998 Summary: 19 Unix (Sparc IPC, 1+, Ultra 200E), 13 staff, 4 Polaris servers, 145 (30 offline) undergrad computers (486, P90, P133, P200)
Waterloo Nexus - Windows 2000 - Sept. 2001 .. ??
2001 Summary: 108 PCs (200, 333, 500 MHz)
Waterloo Nexus - Windows XP - Sept. 2003 ..
2004 summary: 29 servers, 26 staff, 40 research, 296 (66 offline) undergrad computers
Waterloo Nexus - Windows 7 - Sept. 2012 .. Sept 2016?
CentOS 5 retired 2016

Operating Systems - Man. Sci.

Nexus: Windows XP: 2006 - 2009
Nexus: Windows 7: 2009 - 2015
Nexus: Windows 10: 2015 - 2025?
Nexus: Windows 11: 2024 -

UWDir update

For the university

         http://ego.uwaterloo.ca

First - use the 3nd link to set it to use your Polaris/Nexus password
using the EngMail server.

         http://ego/~uwdir/UW-SignOn.html

Then click on the link to "Update Your UWdir Data".

         https://ego/~uwdir/Update

Trivia

2004 inventory

$800k in network and computer equipment
$6M in analog / test equipment

OS Boot Times

It's that time of the century - Win XP is dead and one option is to jump older desktops and laptops to Linux!

Here is a comparison of some : Ubuntu flavours

Test drive it by using a bootable USB key using the: Universal USB Installer

This is for a 3.4GHz AMD 2-core with 4G of RAM on an Asus M4A785T-M motherboard with 500G HD done March 2014.

Operating Sys.	Boot Time Sec	Total Boot to Login Sec	Hibernate Sec	Restore Sec
Windows XP Pro x86	44	72	20	17
XUbuntu 13.04	-	46	<5	<5

19 June 2018 - CentOS 6 file server had to enable SMB 2 so that eceServ1 would work with Chorus machines (Win 10 1709) by editing smb.conf and adding: max protocol = SMB2 for Samba 4.6

Nov 2017 - CentOS 7 eceWeb & eceAdmin can't send email to @gmail but on-campus works.

yum install postfix
rpm --erase ssmtp
chkconfig postfix on   and service start postfix

Joining machines to domains. Assuming the local passwd file is used for UID/GID. Edit the smb.conf and:

https://www.samba.org/samba/docs/man/Samba-HOWTO-Collection/idmapper.html

eceWeb  - edit samba.conf
        security = ADS
        realm=nexus.uwaterloo.ca

 net ads join -U'__Domain_Account___'
 Enter __Domain_Account___'s password:
Using short domain name -- NEXUS
Joined 'ECEWEB' to dns domain 'NEXUS.UWATERLOO.CA'
DNS Update for eceweb.uwaterloo.ca failed: ERROR_DNS_GSS_ERROR
DNS update failed!

[root ~]# net ads testjoin
Join is OK

Here is a simple script to track recent snapshots on FreeNAS or ZFS. I just cron it daily so it sends me an email and if I don't see the snapshots or see 0 size for the previous day something is wrong ...

YESTERDAY=`date +%Y%m%d --date yesterday`
TODAY=`date +%Y%m%d`
echo Yesterday was $YESTERDAY and today is $TODAY

ssh _server_ zfs list -t snapshot | grep $YESTERDAY
ssh _server_ zfs list -t snapshot | grep $TODAY

HDParam tests (cache Read, drive read) -c1 -d1

466 MHz, 8G drive, 162MB, 14MB
CFserver, 4G drive, 156MB, 9M
2GHz Laptop 400MB, 20MB
Old IEEE server (while loaded) 200MB, 28MB
Core 2 P42.4G, 40G, 600MB, 7.4M (stock) 37MB (-c1-d1)
Core 2 P31.2G, 40G, 310MB, 2M (stock) 48MB (-c1-d1)
new IEEE P3 1.2G, 60G 8M cache, 168MB, 40MB

UPS Inventory

Unless otherwise stated all UPS's are APC Smart UPS

E2-2365A (Ricardo) - 650, 1 of LC-RA1212P1 12V 20AH, replaced June 2010 with 12V 9AH
E2-2361 - 3000 (Linux black), New Oct 2011, 4 batteries replaced Apr 2/2013
E2-2361 - 3000 (PC), 2 batteries replaced Sept 8/06, 2 batt. replaced Aug 2010
E2-2361 - 3000 (Unix left), EE 11774, aprox 2005 replaced
E2-2361 - 3000 (Unix right), aprox 2004? replaced, replaced 04/08, UPS exploded Dec 08
E2-2361 - 1400 (Unix), Feb 19,2007 replaced original batteries, 04/09 batteries venting, puffed and very hot, replaced with old batteries from Unix right (batteries 04/2006), 06/09 first pair of used batteries was hot and swapped out for 2nd pair from 3000VA UPS, Aug 2010 battery pair from Apr 2008 puffing - replaced with new pair
E2-2361 - 1400 (network),
E2-2361 - 500CS (WebObjects),
E2-2361 - 500CS (redundant),
E2-2358 - 1400, (Unix) battery replaced Sept 2002, Oct 2006 (used battery), July 2010 (used battery from 2007)
E2-2357 - 1000XL, battery replaced Sept 2003, July 2006, Feb 2011 (used pair)
E2-2357 - 650, EE 14200, EP-7-12 battery, battery failed Sept 20, 2006
E2-3340 - 1400, EE 14197, battery replaced Jan 2010, 2005?
E2-3344 - 1400, EE 14198, battery replaced April 2003, died before Dec 2008
E2-3346 - 1400, EE 14199, battery still original Apr 2009?
CPH-3370B - 500?
E2-3366 - 500CS, 12Ah GP12120F2 battery
CPH-1333A - 650, EE 14200, EP-7-12 battery, batt. replaced April 2009

Some UPS & IT Events

14-Mar-2019 - reboot eceTesla3 - GPU driver became unresponsive, process issues

14-Mar-2019 - reboot eceTesla2 - load 300, nvidia-smi was unresponsive

~7-Mar-2019 - reboot eceTesla0 - process spawning issues, kernel upate

Nov 19 - e2-sw-2403a-a lost it's uplink, spanning tree issue

Sept 17 - e2-sw-2403a-a wasn't working for ~20 ports - no link lights at all, re-seated management board

May 4 - e2-sw-2403a-a installed

DC POP down (it's Cisco?) - Sept 28 to 31

2010? - APC 3000VA UPS blew out it's electronics seconds after a power outage.

Apr 2009 - CPH-1333A battery failure resulted in UPS continually power cycling.

Mar 2009 - severe battery failure (puffing, venting, hot) on 1400VA in E2-2361 on Unix rack

Dec 2008 - Major failure of 3000VA UPS in E2-2361 on Unix rack

2006? - minor battery failure on 1400VA UPS in E2-3340 resulting in UPS turning off and not failing onto mains

UPS Batteries

Batteries only seem to last 2 to 3 years. This is signif. shorter than the 20+ years I was used to at a commerical UPS mfg. Visually batteries indicate overcharing (puffing, cracking) and some failures involve the battery going high-Z.
Measuring voltage on a pair of 3000VA APCs UPS the battery to a battery pair was 26.2V and 27.4V so overvoltage charging could only happen due to a difference in battery capacity and/or impediance- resulting in the lower capacity/higher-Z battery being overcharged.

Replacement Batteries

Battery Wholesale - 320 Lawrence Kit 519-743-2087
NP5-12 $18 ea Mar2017, to replace BP5-12 12V 5Ah in rack mount 3kVA APC UPS - batteries per sleeve and two sleeves per UPS with 4 sleeves per battery cage.
RBC2 (UPS 500CS/350) - Exide EP7-12 12V, 7Ah, Panasonic LC-R127R2P, $28.57 Digikey Oct2004
RBC4 (UPS 650) - Panasonic LC-RA1212P1, 12V, 12AH, $47 Digikey, $56 JKL Oct2004, $59 JKL Sept 2006, Battery Wholesale only has GP12120-F1 (narrower connector $24.11 Sept 2006)
RBC7 (1000, 1400VA) - Panasonic LCRC1217P 2 x $52 Digikey ($30 shipping for 2 of RBC7), $156 JKL Oct 2004, Battery Wholesale WP20-12 2 x $42.40 ea Aug 2006
RBC11 (3000VA) - 2 of RBC7, $298 JKL Nov 2004

WP20-12 battery is $84.00 each
NP7-12 (12V 7.2Ah) is $34.00 each

Projects

WOL

WOL works with Wake-up on Windows with M2N, M3 Asus AMD MBs. ether-wake on Linux (net-tools rpm)

Websites with useful info:
Good backgrounder: http://www.dslreports.com/faq/wol?text=1
Linux source code: http://ahh.sourceforge.net/wol/
Great site listing tons of packages to use: http://gsd.di.uminho.pt/jpo/software/wakeonlan/mini-howto/wol-mini-howto-3.html
Magic UDP packet port 9 (almost all)
AOpen M/B supports WOL with PCI card using connector
ASUS P3 require PCI eth nic support WOL - none of ours do
P4P-800VM apparently supports WOL but I've not gotten it to work.

Special Software - Windows

Feb 2007 - SATA HDs do not work with SMARTmonTools 5.36 with Fedora Core 5, ok with Win XP
If the machine doesn't have a CD you can boot BARTPE from RIS http://staff.stir.ac.uk/thomas.speirs/Bart-PE_RIS.htm or a linux PXE/BOOTP system http://oss.netfarm.it/guides/pxe.php
The campus power is undervoltage - the UPSs spend much of the daytime acting as power conditioners. Here is one example

HD Specs

5.25" floppy disc - 250 kbits/sec, 5ms track-track, 300 rpm,
1994 4x CDROM - 700 KByte/sec (13MByte/sec burst), 20,000 hours MTBF
1996 8x CDROM - 2700 KByte/sec, 128kB buffer, 120ms access time, 60,000 hours MTBF (10% duty cycle), error rate 10^-9 read errors, 10^-12 after error correction, 780nm laser

1984 - 42M, 8k cache, 29ms seek
Jan 1991 - 1.2G SCSI drive, 3600rpm
1993? - 4G SCSI Barracuda , 4-10 MB/sec, 7200rpm, 1M cache, 800,000 hours MTBF, 4.17ms latency, 10-20 MB/sec max transfer rate
2000 - 15G, 5400 rpm, 512k cache
2001 - 15G, 7200 rpm, 2M cache
2007 - 250G ($84), 500G ($209), 16M cache, 61 to 78MB/sec sustained, 5 year warranty, 1,000,000 MTBF hours
2008 Dec - aprox 7 MB/sec from 15G 5400 rpm PATA to SATA 2 7200rpm, around 24 MB/sec SATA 2 to SATA 2 while HD cloning

Special Equipment

OIDs for SNMP www.oidView.com
Fall 2004 - IP Telephones Grandstream BudgeTone-100 for ECE 355 (< $200 ea)
Firmware upgraded Nov 7, 2005
Winter 2005 - CivEng NetGear ProSafe VPN Firewall 50 (FVS338), 8 port Gbit switch
ECE 223 - Speedwire boards replaced wiring wrapping and were used until Oct 2005

Software Tools for Windows

PSexec suite for remote login, reboot, shutdown, process listing
Windows schtasks for scheduling tasks
Windows chkdsk C: /F /R to force a full file system check (/F checks, /R forces check of disk surface)
Windows defrag C: -F to defrag a volume - can be a scheduled task

Securing Information

..disabling the ability to login with passwords, and use SSH public-key authentication.
Set: PasswordAuthentication no
in sshd_config. For more info about SSH public keys, see: http://www.cs.uwaterloo.ca/cscf/howto/ssh/public_key

FYDP Computer Demand

2001 - 10 computers, 5 monitors
2002 - 16 computers, 2 monitors
2003 - 21 computers, 6 monitors
2004 - 11 computers, 2 monitors
2005 - 14 computers, 4 monitors
2006 - 7 computers, 5 monitors
2007 - 2 computers, 4 monitors
2008 - 3 computers, 2 monitors
2011 - 0 computers, 20 monitors, 6 mon for SE
2012 - 4 computers, 10 monitors, dsl modem, switch, eth cables
2013 - 1 computer, 13 monitors
2014 - 2 computers, 29 monitors (5+ requests for HDMI)
2015 - 0 computers, 7 monitors, 2 LCDs for SE symposium (1+ request for HDMI)
2018 - 0 computers, 26 HDMI monitors

SVN Performance Evaluation

In 2018 performance issues with eceSVN were raised. Here are some performance results using
svn co http://ecesvn[-new].uwaterloo.ca/courses/ece108

The virtual machine servers have Intel i5-6500 CPUs with a 10Gb/s connection back to the file server holding the VM and 10Gb/s back to the file server with the SVN repos and was running 4 VMs, each with a single core assigned.

My guess for the poor performance of the 2-core VM is that the KVM server is running CentOS and I've seen 2x worse performance on CentOS than Ubuntu when many cores / threads are in use. It seems as if the older kernels in CentOS do not handle new CPUs and many cores well.

KVM Server	Server	OS	Specs	Runtime
N.A.	eceSVN	CentOS 6	32G RAM, 4-core i5-3300	46 min, 44 min
CentOS 7 10Gb/s	eceSVN-new	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	1-core of i5-6500, 4G (swap in use)	15 min
			1-core of i5-6500, 8G	10 min
			2-core of i5-6500, 8G	25, 25, 11:15 min
			3-core of i5-6500, 8G	12 min
Ubuntu 18.04 1Gb/s			1-core of i7-8700, 8G	9 min
			2-core of i7-8700, 8G	9:15 min
			3-core of i7-8700, 8G	10 min

Raspbian Build Performance Evaluation

Nov 18, 2014 - This was a test to evaluate the space and computing requirements to build Raspbian for the Raspberry PI.

Kernel code is 837M clean and 1.2G when built. ECELinux5 is running mprime in the background niced.

source /opt/bin/setup-raspbian.csh
make clean; make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- bcmrpi_defconfig
date ; make ARCH=arm CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-gnueabihf- -j 6 ; date

Some rough numbers for performance comparison:

Raspberry PI 41 MFLOPS for 700 MHz single core CPU
AMD FX 8150 3.6GHz 150M ints/sec
Intel i5 3.3GHz 160M ints/sec
Intel i7 3.4GHz 2600K 200M ints/sec PER core??

Server, Specs	Location	Build Ops	Build Time
Linux5, x4 i5	tmp	-j 6	6:33 : 9:58:16 10:04:49
Linux5, x4 i5	home SSD RAID 10	-j 6	9:27 10:25
Linux5, x4 i5	home SAS RAID 10	-j 6	12:27 : 11:27:34 11:40:01
Linux5, x4 i5, 1SSD on server, sustains 14Mb/sec to file server	home	-j 6	11:45 : 7:48:57 8:00:42
Linux5, x4 i5, 1SSD on server	home	-j 6	13:10 : 7:32:33 7:45:42
Linux1, x8 AMD FX	tmp	-j 12	6:59 : 10:07:30 10:14:29
Linux1, x8 AMD FX	tmp	-j 6	7:01 : 10:46:06 10:53:07
Linux1, x8 AMD FX	home, 6 x SAS	-j 12	9:37 : 11:11:50 11:21:27
Linux2, x8 AMD FX	home RAID 10 SSD	-j 12	8:01 6:48 7:25
Linux1, x8 AMD FX, 20 Mb/sec to file server	home, 5 x SAS, 1 SSD	-j 12	9:36 : 8:05:37 8:15:13
Linux6, x2 AMD "550"	tmp	-j 3	16:57 : 9:31:40 9:48:37
Linux5, x4 i5	home		23:57 : 6:18:20 6:41:17
Linux5, x4 i5	home		67:12 : 11:44:38 12:51:50
Linux1, x8 AMD FX	home, 6 x SAS		2:13:15 : 12:59:55 14:13:10
Raspberry PI A, 256M, 700MHz	SD card		16:15:00 : ~1pm 5:15:14am

Antec ISK 110 case Power Supply efficiency

Using i3-8100 with 1x16G 2400MHz RAM, M.2 500G 860 EVO, ROG Strix H370-I Gaming MB:

Power Supply	BIOS power	Win 10 power
Antec ISK 110 P/S	29.1W	14.2W
Antec MT 352 80Plus Bronze	33.8W	19.0W

GPU Processing Performance - ECE 459 - March 2018

This is to collect the performance info to inform purchasing decisions. Power draw and run times are for the ECE459 nbody assignment with 5,000 * 64 points.

Model	Perf	Max. Power	Idle & compute Power	nbody min:sec	Cost
Quadro 600 GF108	?GF/s	?W		?	1G GDDR3, 128-bit bus, 96 cuda cores
GTX 950	1.6GF/s	90W		5:00	?
Tesla M2090	1.3GF/s	225W	74W / 109W	3:15	$200 used Jan 2018
GTX 1060	3.9GF/s	120W	25W / 50W	2:18, 2:16	$300+
Tesla P4	5GF/s	70W	24W / 33W	1:50	est. $2,500
GTX 1070	5.8GF/s	150W	20W / 75W	1:35	$300 used, $600+
RTX 2070	-GF/s	215W	? / 90W	1:21, 1:21	$ ?
GTX 1080	8.2GF/s	180W		1:08	$750+
RTX 3070	?GF/s	?W (runs at 82W)		61, 61, 60.9	~$800
RTX 2080	-GF/s	250W	38 / 129W	54.7, 58.5, 56.3, 57.0, 59.4	$ ?
Titan XP	11GF/s	250W		0:45	$1,200

GPU Processing Performance Evaluation - ECE 459 - March 2018

This test runs the ECE 459 nbody test from Assignment 2 with 5,000 * 64 points. Run time on various GPUs is below

GPU run time Misc. Specs

Nvidia Quadro 600 GF108 (runs at 76C) 28:24 Ubuntu 18.04, i3-6100

Nvidia GTX 950 5:06, 5:02, 5:01 Ubuntu 16.04 or CentOS 7.4, Ryzen7 1700

Nvidia Tesla M2090 3:16, 3:13 Ubuntu 16.04, i3-4170

3:14, 3:13 Ubuntu 18.04, i3-6100

Nvidia GTX 1060-6G 2:16, 2:17, 2:17 Ubuntu 18.04, NVidia driver 390.87

2:18, 2:18 Ubuntu 18.04, NVidia driver 415.13

Nvidia Tesla P4 1:57, 1:50, 1:55 CentOS 7.4, Xeon Gold 5120 14-core

Gigabyte GTX 1070 1:34, 1:35, 1:36 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, i7-7700K

GeForce GTX 1070 FTW 1:30, 1:31, 1:31 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

PNY XLR8 GTX 1070 FTW 1:27, 1:27, 1:27 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS

Nvidia GTX 1080 1:08, 1:09, 1:08 Ubuntu 17.10

1:09, 1:08 Ubuntu 18.04

Nvidia Titan XP 0:48, 0:48, 0:47 Ubuntu 17.10, i7-8700K 6-core, DUAL GPU only 1 used

0:47, 0:47, 0:44 Ubuntu 16.04, i7-8700K 6-core, DUAL GPU only 1 used

RTX 3070 61.4, 61.1 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Feb 2022

RTX 3090 39.6, 39.9, 37.2 Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Nov 2021

GPU	run time	Misc. Specs
Nvidia Quadro 600 GF108 (runs at 76C)	28:24	Ubuntu 18.04, i3-6100
Nvidia GTX 950	5:06, 5:02, 5:01	Ubuntu 16.04 or CentOS 7.4, Ryzen7 1700
Nvidia Tesla M2090	3:16, 3:13	Ubuntu 16.04, i3-4170
3:14, 3:13	Ubuntu 18.04, i3-6100
Nvidia GTX 1060-6G	2:16, 2:17, 2:17	Ubuntu 18.04, NVidia driver 390.87
2:18, 2:18	Ubuntu 18.04, NVidia driver 415.13
Nvidia Tesla P4	1:57, 1:50, 1:55	CentOS 7.4, Xeon Gold 5120 14-core
Gigabyte GTX 1070	1:34, 1:35, 1:36	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, i7-7700K
GeForce GTX 1070 FTW	1:30, 1:31, 1:31	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
PNY XLR8 GTX 1070 FTW	1:27, 1:27, 1:27	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Nvidia GTX 1080	1:08, 1:09, 1:08	Ubuntu 17.10
1:09, 1:08	Ubuntu 18.04
Nvidia Titan XP	0:48, 0:48, 0:47	Ubuntu 17.10, i7-8700K 6-core, DUAL GPU only 1 used
0:47, 0:47, 0:44	Ubuntu 16.04, i7-8700K 6-core, DUAL GPU only 1 used
RTX 3070	61.4, 61.1	Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Feb 2022
RTX 3090	39.6, 39.9, 37.2	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS - Nov 2021

GPU Processing Performance Evaluation - Caffe mnist example - March 2018

This test runs the caffe mnist example. Run time on various GPUs is below

GPU run time Misc. Specs

Titan Xp 1:19 Ubuntu 16.04, Dual GPU in machine, only one used

1:42, 1:43, 1:43 Ubuntu 17.10, Dual GPU in machine, only one used

GTX 1080 1:10, 1:09 Ubuntu 18.04

1:37, 1:39 Ubuntu 17.10

GTX 1060-6G 1:14, 1:16 Ubuntu 18.04

GTX 950 1:54 Ubuntu 16.04

2:33 Ubuntu 17.10

1:51, 1:51 Ubuntu 18.04

GPU	run time	Misc. Specs
Titan Xp	1:19	Ubuntu 16.04, Dual GPU in machine, only one used
1:42, 1:43, 1:43	Ubuntu 17.10, Dual GPU in machine, only one used
GTX 1080	1:10, 1:09	Ubuntu 18.04
1:37, 1:39	Ubuntu 17.10
GTX 1060-6G	1:14, 1:16	Ubuntu 18.04
GTX 950	1:54	Ubuntu 16.04
2:33	Ubuntu 17.10
1:51, 1:51	Ubuntu 18.04

ECE 493 Quantum QED simulation using Python qutip - Feb 2019

Below are the runtimes for the A-3.py file from Chris_Warren's Masters thesis (python3 A-3.py) The OS is Ubuntu 18.04 unless otherwise stated.

CPU	SpecMark	Runtime (sec)
	single/multi	Part 1	part 2
i7-7700k : June 2019	2585 / 12055	109	6.0
i7-7700k	2585 / 12055	109	6.3
i7-8700 CentOS 7 : June 2019	2705 / 15995	110	5.2
Ryzen 7-1700 : June 2019	1775 / 13750	113	9.4
Ryzen 7-1700	1775 / 13750	130	-
i7-6700	2156 / 10011	125	6.7
i7-6700 : June 2019	2156 / 10011	124	6.8
i5-6500	1945 / 7235	123	7.2
i5-6500 : June 2019	1945 / 7235	126	7.5
i7-3770	2068 / 9284	153	13.4
i7-3770 : June 2019	2068 / 9284	154	13.1
Xeon Gold 5120 : June 2019	1725 / 18145	168	7.9
Xeon Gold 5120	1725 / 18145	163	8.0

Parallel Processing Performance Evaluation - ECE 459 - Jan 2018

For this test the queens problem makes use of all CPU threads. I did not test de-activating hyperthreading.
For Ubuntu 17.10 the program was recompiled and may explain the faster runtimes.

queens_omp 16

CPU	run time	Specs	Passmark Test (single / all threads)
DUAL AMD EPYC 7H12	0:37, 0:37, 0:36 (3-2021)	2 x 64-cores, 2.6GHz, Boost 3.3GHz, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS LOAD IS ONLY 12 !!	EPYC 7763 2.5GHz/3.5GHz 64-core is 2639 / 87,686
AMD Threadripper 3960X 24-core	0:23.5, 0:23.6, 0:23.5	24-cores, not all cores loaded	- / -
AMD Ryzen 9 5900X	0:28, 0:27	12-cores, 3.7GHz, Boost 4.8GHz, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	3502 / 39498
AMD Ryzen 7 5700G	0:35, 0:36	8-cores, 3.8GHz, Boost 4.6GHz, Ubuntu 22.04 LTS	- / -
AMD EPYC 7302P	?	16-cores, 3.3GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	2248 / 30994
AMD Ryzen 2700X	0:43, 0:42, 0:43	8-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	2193 / 16985
Xeon Gold 5120	0:42, 0:43, 0:42 (0:61 3-2021)	14-cores, 2.2GHz,CPU ~$3000, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	1725 / 18145
Threadripper 1920X	0:55, 0:57, 0:56	3.5GHz, 12-cores, 195W, CPU ~$700, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS	1978 / 18285
Ryzen7-1700	0:52, 0:52	8-cores, 3.0GHz, 4 of 2400MHz RAM, Ubuntu 18.04 with 4.15.0-42 kernel, Dec 16, 2018	1775 / 13750
	0:51, 0:51, 0:55	8-cores, 3.0GHz, 4 of 2133MHz RAM, Ubuntu 18.04 with 4.15.0-20 kernel, May 2, 2018
	0:58, 0:57, 0:57 (118W power draw)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, 4 of 2133MHz RAM, Ubuntu 17.10 with 4.13.0-37 kernel
i7-8700K	0:60, 0:55, 0:55	6-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 17.10, 8G DDR4-2666 * 2, 2 of Titan GX GPUs	2705 / 15995
i7-8700	0:52, 0:51, 0:52	6-cores, 3.2 to 4.6GHz, Ubuntu 18.04, 8G * 2, 109W running	2779 / 15154
2 x Xeon X5680	1:00, 1:01, 0:58	6-cores, 3.33 to 3.6GHz, RHEL 8	1521 / 2 x 6795
2 x Xeon E5-2667 v2	1:05,	8-cores, 3.4 to 4.0GHz, Sci Linux 7.6	2035 / 2 x 21339
i5-8400	0:63, 0:63, 0:64	6-cores, 1x16G RAM, 2.8 to 4.0GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 4.15.0 kernel	2335 / 11745
Dell R610 - 2 x Xeon X5680	0:63, 0:62, 0:63	2 x 6-cores, 96G RAM, 3.33 to 3.6GHz, RedHat Enterprise 8.6 , 4.18.0 kernel	1515 / 6804 (each CPU)
AMD EPYC 3201	1:48, 1:51 (3-2021)	8-core, 1.5GHz, Boost 3.1GHz, Ubuntu 20.04 LTS	2027 / 12677
i7-7700K	1:07, 1:07	4-cores, 4GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Dec 2018	2585 / 12055
i7-7700K	1:13, 1:16, 1:08, 1:08	4-cores, 4GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Dec 2018	2585 / 12055
i7-6700	1:17, 1:17, 1:18, 1:18	4-cores, 3.4GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS June 2018	2156 / 10011
i7-6700	1:20, 1:19	Dec 2018	2156 / 10011
i3-8100	1:35, 1:35	4-cores, 1x16G RAM, 3.6GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 4.15.0 kernel	2105 / 8090
i3-8100	1:33, 1:36, 1:34	2x16G RAM	2105 / 8090
i7-3770	1:34, 1:34	4-cores, 3.4GHz, Ubuntu 18.04.02	2068 / 9284
i5-4590	1:52, 1:35, 1:35	4-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 18.04.5	2091 / 5317
i5-4590	1:40, 1:42	4-cores, 3.7GHz, RHEL 9	2091 / 5317
Xeon Gold 5120	1:35, 1:38	14-cores, 2.2GHz,CPU ~$3000, CentOS 7.4	1725 / 18145
i5-6500	1:37, 1:37, 1:36, 1:35	4-cores, 4x16G RAM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 4.15.0 kernel	1945 / 7235
Ryzen3-2200G APU	1:46, 1:47, 1:49, 1:49, 1:47	4-core, 4-thread, 3.5GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 4.13.0-45 kernel, 33.6W in Ubuntu idle, 83.2W running nqueens_omp	1820 / 7355
nuc7i7 i7-7567U	2:25, 2:25, 2:24	2-cores, 2x8G RAM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	2264 / 6497
i3-6100	3:11, 2:35, 2:39, 2:38	2-cores, 4x16G RAM, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 4.15.0 kernel	2110 / 5495
AMD Phenom II x6 1090T	2:41, 2:39, 2:42	6-cores, 3.2GHz, Ubuntu 18.04, July 2018	1220 / 5595
i3-4130	2:50, 2:53	2-cores, 3.4GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 4.15.0-23 kernel, July 2018	1963 / 4793
i7-8700K	3:18, 3:32	6-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 16.04, 4.10 kernel, 8G DDR4-2666 * 2, 2 of Titan GX GPUs, 80.5W idle, 156W running	2705 / 15995
i7-8700	3:24, 3:20	6-cores, 3.2 to 4.6GHz, CentOS 7.4, 8G * 2, 68.5W running	2779 / 15154
i3-3220	3:31, 3:28, 3:30	2-cores, 3.3GHz, Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, 4.15.0-23 kernel, July 2018	1760 / 4233
i7-7700K	3:34, 3:41	4-cores, 4GHz, CentOS 7.4, Jan 2018	2583 / 12055
i7-7700K	3:43, 3:31, 3:47	4-cores, 4GHz, CentOS 7.5, July 2018	2583 / 12055
AMD FX-8350	3:31, 3:26, 3:20	8-cores, 4.0GHz, Ubuntu 18.04, July 2018	1510 / 8950
Ryzen7-1700, 2 of 2666MHz RAM	3:45, 3:51 (89.7W power draw)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, CentOS 7.4 with 3.10.0-693 kernel	1775 / 13750
Ryzen7-1700, 4 of 2133MHz RAM	4:00 (only 83W power draw)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, CentOS 7.4 with 3.10.0-693 kernel
Ryzen7-1700, 2 of 2666MHz RAM	4:01, 4:01 (88.5 power draw)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, CentOS 7.4 with 4.15.2 kernel
Ryzen7-1700, 4 of 2133MHz RAM	4:03, 4:03 (only 83W power draw but 125W running CPU burn-in)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, CentOS 7.4 with 4.15.2 kernel
Ryzen7-1700, 4 of 2133MHz RAM	4:16, 4:09 (only 83W power draw but 105W in BIOS)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel
Ryzen7-1700, 2 of 2666MHz RAM	4:21, 4:16, 4:09, 4:16, 4:06 (90.5W power draw)	8-cores, 16-thread, 3.0GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel
Xeon E5410 16G RAM	4:50, 4:47, 4:51	4-cores, 8-thread, 2.33GHz, Ubuntu 17.10	1000 / 3268
Ryzen7-1700 no threading, 4 of 2133MHz RAM	5:59, 6:11 (power draw ~85W)	8-cores, 3.0GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel
i7-6700	4:30, 4:30, 4:07	4-cores, 3.4GHz, CentOS 7.5, July 2018
i7-3770	4:21, 4:08	4-cores, 3.4GHz, CentOS 7.4	2068 / 9284
Ryzen3-2200G APU	5:04, 4:37 (nqueens_omp 15: 53, 42 sec)	4-core, 4-thread, 3.5GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel, ~74W power draw
i5-8400	5:13, 5:01, 6:09, 4:59	6-cores, 2.8 to 4.0GHz, CentOS 7.5, 3.10 kernel
i5-8400	5:12, 5:34	6-cores, 2.8 to 4.0GHz, CentOS 7.5, 4.17 ML kernel
Ryzen3-2200G APU	5:23, 5:55	4-core, 4-thread, 3.5GHz, CentOS 7.4 3.10.0 kernel, ~70W power draw
i5-4590	6:59, 6:59, 7:00	4-cores, 3.7GHz, CentOS 7.4	2091 / 5317
i5-3450	6:58, 6:46	4-cores, 4x16G RAM, 3.1 to 3.5GHz, CentOS 7.5	1856 / 6520
i3-6100	7:16, 7:09, 7:34	2-cores, 4x16G RAM, CentOS 7.5, 3.10.0-862 kernel
i3-8100	7:17, 7:17, 7:07	4-cores, 3.6GHz, CentOS 7.5, 3.10 kernel
i3-4170	7:22, 7:38	2-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel
	7:27, 7:34	compiled on Ubuntu 16.10, 2-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel
	7:32, 7:33	2-cores, 3.7GHz, CentOS 7.5 3.10 kernel
i5-6500	8:17, 8:33 Other SW running	4-cores, 4x16G RAM, CentOS 7.5, 3.10.0-862 kernel
i3-4170 Hyper-Threading disabled	11:04, 10:31	2-cores, 3.7GHz, Ubuntu 16.04 LTS, 4.10 kernel

Intel Kaby Lake i7-7700K Performance Evaluation - April 2017

An identical system had it's CPU switched from i7-6770 to i7-7700K. The 7700K had a 25% higher clock but that was not exploited until the CentOS 7 kernel was updated to 4.10.10 from the stock 3.10. For performance testing a simple Quartus 15.0 project was compiled (1, 2, 4 at a time).

Summary:

Compile

Server specifications:

eceLinux1: CentOS 7, Asus H170M MB, i7-???? CPU, 64G DDR4, 10Gb/s networking
eceLinux2: CentOS 7, Asus H170M MB, i7-6770 CPU, 64G DDR4, 10Gb/s networking
eceServ1: CentOS 6, 4 of 1TB SSDs in RaidZ ZFS, SuperMicro MB, i5-6500 CPU, 64G DDR4, 1Gb/s networking
eceServ1new: CentOS 6, 5 of 1TB SSDs in RaidZ ZFS, SuperMicro MB, i5-6500 CPU, 64G DDR4, 10Gb/s networking
eceServ2: CentOS 7, 5 of 1TB SSDs in RaidZ ZFS, SuperMicro MB, i5-6500 CPU, 64G DDR4, 10Gb/s networking
eceKVMserv: FreeNAS 9, 2 of 1TB SSDs in mirroring ZFS, SuperMicro MB, i3-6?00 CPU, 64G DDR4, 10Gb/s networking
eceBackup2: FreeNAS 10, 4 of 4TB HDDs in RaidZ ZFS, Asus H97M-E MB, i3-4?00 CPU, 32G DDR3, 1Gb/s networking

Server, Specs	Networking	File Source	Num. Compiles	Build Time
eceLinux2 i7-6770 kernel 3.10	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	80, 79, 79	Reference
			2	1:26
			4	1:56, 1:45
eceLinux2 i7-6770 kernel 4.10.10	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	49, 44	44% faster
			2	48, 46, 46
			4	58, 59
eceLinux2 i7-6770 kernel 4.10.10	1Gb/s or 10Gb/s	local SSD	1	37, 37, 37, 37, 37	50% faster
			2	37, 38, 37, 39, 39
			4	49, 51, 53, 50, 51
eceLinux1 i7-6770 kernel 4.10.1	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	47, 45, 45	43% faster
			2	46, 45
			4	58, 63, 58
			8	66, 55
eceLinux1 i7-6770 kernel 4.10.1	10Gb/s	eceServ1NEW	1	50, 45, 48	?% faster
			2	47, 47, 46
			4	58, 62, 61
eceLinux1 i7-7700K kernel 4.10.1	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	60, 52, 49, 50	SLOWER
			2	51, 61, 51
			4	70, 68
eceLinux1 i7-7700K kernel 4.10.10	10Gb/s	eceServ2	1	45, 44	44% faster
			2	49, 48
			4	56, 55
eceLinux1 i7-7700K kernel 4.10.10	10Gb/s	eceKVMserv	1	40, 40, 39	50% faster
			2	40, 40, 39, 40
			4	45, 46, 46, 45
			8	1:21
eceLinux1 i7-7700K kernel 4.10.10	10Gb/s	local SSD	1	33, 33, 33	58% faster
			2	33, 33, 33
			4	42, 43
eceLinux3 i7-3770 kernel 3.10.0	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	58, 53, 55, 1:01, 55, 56	?
			2	56, 55, 55, 1:08, 57, 1:06
			4	1:08, 1:07, 1:07, 1:10, 1:09, 1:06
eceLinux3 i7-3770 kernel 4.10.10	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	1:51, 51	Unpredictable
eceLinux3 i7-3770 kernel 4.10.10	1Gb/s	eceServ1	2	2:51, 50, 2:50, 1:50, 51	Unpredictable
eceLinux3 i7-3770 kernel 3.10.0	1Gb/s	local SSD	1	46, 46	?
			2	51, 47, 48
			4	1:01, 1:02, 1:02
eceLinux9 VM 1-core i5-6500 kernel 3.10.0, 8G RAM	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	1:06, 1:13, 1:07	?
eceLinux9 VM 1-core i5-6500 kernel 3.10.0, 8G RAM	1Gb/s	eceServ1	2	1:51, 1:53	?
eceLinux9 VM 1-core i5-6500 kernel 4.10.10, 8G RAM	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	1:14, 1:01, 1:00, 59	?
eceLinux9 VM 1-core i5-6500 kernel 4.10.10, 8G RAM	1Gb/s	eceServ1	2	1:45	?
eceLinux9 VM 2-core i5-6500 kernel 4.10.10, 8G RAM	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	59, 59, 58	?
eceLinux9 VM 1-core i5-6500 kernel 4.10.10, 8G RAM	10Gb/s	eceServ1NEW	1	1:11, 1:02	?
eceLinux9 VM 1-core i5-6500 kernel 4.10.10, 8G RAM	10Gb/s	eceServ1NEW	2	1:51, 1:52, 1:50	?
eceLinux5 i5-8400 July 2018	1Gb/s	eceServ1	1	1:04, 0:53
			2	1:01, 1:03
			4	?

FIO tests to various file servers

fio --rw=randread --bs=64k --numjobs=4 --iodepth=8 --runtime=30 --time_based --loops=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --fsync_on_close=1 --randrepeat=1 --norandommap --exitall --name task1 --filename=/home-fast/1.txt --size=10000000

eceKVMserv:  READ: io=3732.8MB, aggrb=127349KB/s, minb=31801KB/s, maxb=31897KB/s, mint=30009msec, maxt=30014msec
eceServ2:    READ: io=33608MB, aggrb=1120.2MB/s, minb=286662KB/s, maxb=286981KB/s, mint=30001msec, maxt=30002msec
eceServ1:    READ: io=3325.8MB, aggrb=113444KB/s, minb=28348KB/s, maxb=28387KB/s, mint=30008msec, maxt=30019msec
eceServ1NEW: READ: io=25806MB, aggrb=880783KB/s, minb=219712KB/s, maxb=220599KB/s, mint=30001msec, maxt=30002msec

eceKVMserv:  READ: io=3.7GB, aggrb=127MB/s, minb=32MB/s, maxb=32MB/s
eceServ1:    READ: io=3.3GB, aggrb=113MB/s, minb=28MB/s, maxb=28MB/s	[1Gb/s]
eceServ2:    READ: io=34GB, aggrb=1.1GB/s, minb=287MB/s, maxb=287MB/s
eceServ1NEW: READ: io=26GB, aggrb=881MB/s, minb=220MB/s, maxb=221MB/s	[10Gb/s]

AMD Servers Quartus Power and Performance Evaluation - June 2015

Windowx XP, Antec 80Plus power supply, Asus M5A88-M AM3+ motherboard, 32G DDR3, SATA HD & DVDROM. Quartus compile is a DE2 demo circuit and simple ECE 124 stop-light circuit.

The Linux Power Draw column include the computer specs above + Adaptec 6405e RAID card, with an SSD in addition to the SATA HD above

Student lab computers use the 560 CPU, many of the 270's are available.

AMD CPU Model Quartus Compile
Demo / Stoplight BIOS Power Windows XP Power Draw Computers With This CPU Linux Power Draw

Phenom II 560 2-core 3.3GHz 18 / 29, 27, 28, 25 sec 83W 48.5W eceLinux6,7,8,9.10, Mail, Arbeau, ieee 73W

445 3-core 25 sec / crashes 68W? 46.0W eceLinux12 68W

FX4300 4-core, 3.8GHz ? / 26, 33, 26 sec 62W? 44.5W 62W

270 2-core 3.4GHz ? / 26, 27, 26 sec 80.0W 44.5W 65.4W

250 2-core 3.0GHz ? / 43, 44, 36, 41 sec ? W 44.1W

Phenom II 550 2-core 21 sec / ? ? ?

1090T 6-core ? ? ? wo32

1055T 6-core ? ? ? kvm

FX 8350 8-core ? ? ? eceLinux1,2,3

AMD CPU Model	Quartus Compile Demo / Stoplight	BIOS Power	Windows XP Power Draw	Computers With This CPU	Linux Power Draw
Phenom II 560 2-core 3.3GHz	18 / 29, 27, 28, 25 sec	83W	48.5W	eceLinux6,7,8,9.10, Mail, Arbeau, ieee	73W
445 3-core	25 sec / crashes	68W?	46.0W	eceLinux12	68W
FX4300 4-core, 3.8GHz	? / 26, 33, 26 sec	62W?	44.5W		62W
270 2-core 3.4GHz	? / 26, 27, 26 sec	80.0W	44.5W		65.4W
250 2-core 3.0GHz	? / 43, 44, 36, 41 sec	? W	44.1W
Phenom II 550 2-core	21 sec / ?	?	?
1090T 6-core	?	?	?	wo32
1055T 6-core	?	?	?	kvm
FX 8350 8-core	?	?	?	eceLinux1,2,3

Asus H97 Motherboard Performance Issues - Dec 2016

It was noticed that the Asus H97M-E motherboards, with SSDs, were signif. slower than 4 year old Asus P8H77-M motherboards and this holds for Win 7 and Win 10 even after trying BIOS and driver tweaks / updates. Windows performance tests of the SSD, RAM and CPU showed good performance.

The performance tests with Linux were done using CentOS 6, Quartus 10.1 targeting Cyclone II (auto) from /praetzel/QuartusTest101/lab1

Linux Quartus 13? targeting Cyclone II and IV, project on NFS share 1Gb/s networking
Motherboard	OS	CPU	Quartus Compile Times Seconds
P8H61	CentOS 6	i3-2120 3.2?GHz	12, 12, 12 Cyclone IV GX 20, 22, 21, 20
H97M	CentOS 6	i3-4170 3.7GHz	11, 12, 11 Cyclone IV GX 19, 17, 19, 18
H170M	CentOS 6	i3-6700 3.7GHz	11, 12, 12 Cyclone IV GX 19, 19, 18, 18
P8H77-M ece-public20	Win 7, SSD	i3-3220	18, 18, 19 SSD: 12, 12, 12 1Gb/s: 14, 14, 14 ieee CIFS: 15, 15, 15
Windows Quartus 15.1 targeting Max 10, project on N: cifs share, 100Mb/s networking
H97M ece-mcu20	Win 7	i3-4170	3:28, 2:00, 1:56
H97M ece-mcu20	Win 10	i3-4170	2:23, 1:53, 2:19 SSD: 2:01, 2:00, 2:04
H81M-C	Win 10	i3-4150	3:14, 3:06, 3:07 SSD: 2:50, 2:54
P8H77-M ece-fpga29	Win 10	i3-3220	1:36, 1:37, 1:34
P8H77-M ece-rtos7	Win 7	i3-3220	1:47, 1:29, 1:29
P8H77-M ece-cpuio29	Win 7 1Gb/s eth	i3-3220	1:01, 0:53, 1:00
P8H77-M ece-cpuio29	Win 7 1Gb/s eth	i3-3220	1:01, 0:53, 1:00
P8H77-M ece-fpga29	Win 10 - April 21, 2017 Fresh install	i3-3220	N: 1:57, 1:58 C: 1:57, 1:43
H97M ece-mcu20	Win 10 - April 21, 2017 Fresh install	i3-4170	n: 3:09, 2:57 C: 2:37, 2:38
May 17, 2017 Network upgrade to 1Gb/s
Motherboard	OS	CPU	Quartus Compile Times Seconds
H97M ece-mcu17	Win 7	i3-4170 1Gb/s	N: 2:27, 2:18
H97M ece-mcu17	Win 7	i3-4170 1Gb/s	SSD: 1:55, 1:51, 2:06
H97M ece-mcu18	Win 7	i3-4170 1Gb/s	N: 1:10, 2:54, 2:51, 2:42
H97M ece-mcu18	Win 7	i3-4170 1Gb/s	SSD: 2:31, 2:44, 2:44
H97M ece-mcu19	Win 7	i3-4170 1Gb/s	N: 2:12, 1:35, 1:44
H97M ece-mcu19	Win 7	i3-4170 1Gb/s	HDD: 1:33, 1:26, 1:33

This was a simple test to evaluate if I should buy 1 or 2 sticks of RAM in the P8H77-M Asus M/B using DDR3-1333 4G sticks and the Windows Performance test:
1 of 4G RAM: 5.9
2 of 4G RAM: 7.5
4 of 4G RAM: 7.5

Motherboard Inplace Upgrade

Asus H81M-C/CSM

Feb 2014 - Upgrading from Asus M2Nmx-SE Plus and Win 7 - Either use a new image and re-install or get all but two drivers (PCI, Unknown) from the install USB key. Then install the setup.exe program in the Video and MEI directories under drivers.

Asus P8H77M-C/CSM

Upgrading from Asus M2Nmx-SE Plus and Win 7 - simply replace the motherboard, go from DHCP to fixed IP until DHCP has a new MAC set

Windows 7 Computer Performance Evaluation

Computer Name	Windows Performance Score					Specs
Computer Name	CPU	RAM	Graphics	Game Graphics	Hard Drive	Motherboard	Other Specs
Asus M2N PV VM Motherboard, AMD AM 2 CPU
Control6	4.4	5.7	3.5	3.0	5.7
Control7	4.4	5.7	3.4	3.0	5.7
Control9	4.4	5.7	2.9	3.0	5.7
Asus M2N SE Plus Motherboard, AMD AM 2+ CPU, DDR 2
lab10	4.4	5.1	3.3	3.2	5.9	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2, LE 1640 2.6GHz x1
4thYear0	4.9	4.9	3.7	3.3/3.2	5.9	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2 800MHz, AMD 6100 3.1GHz x2
motor2	6.5	4.9	3.7	3.3	5.9	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2
motor8	6.5	4.9	3.7	3.2	5.9	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2
motor22	4.9	5.5	3.2	3.5	5.8	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2, "4400" CPU x2 2.2GHz
motor22	6.7	5.9	3.5	3.2	5.8	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2, CPU "270" x2 3.4GHz
motor13	6.5	5.9	3.6	3.2	5.8	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2, CPU "250"? 3.1GHz x2
motor17	6.5	5.9	3.7	3.3	5.8	M2N SE Plus	160G HD, 4G DDR2
Asus M3A78 Motherboard, AMD AM 3 CPU, DDR 2
circuits33	6.7	5.9	3.2	5.1	5.8	M3A78-CM	DDR2 4G, 160G HD, AMD "270" 3.4GHz x2
Asus M4A785T Motherboard, AMD AM 3 CPU, DDR 2
cpuio7	6.7	5.9	4.4	5.4	5.9	M4A785T-M	DDR3 1033 or 1333 4G, 160G HD, AMD 2.7 or 3.1 or 3.4GHz x2
cpuio8	6.7	5.9	4.1	5.3	5.9	M4A785T-M	DDR3 1033 or 1333 4G, 160G HD, AMD 2.7 or 3.1 or 3.4GHz x2
cpuio1	6.7	5.9	4.1	5.2	5.9	M4A785T-M	DDR3 1033 or 1333 4G, 160G HD, AMD 2.7 or 3.1 or 3.4GHz x2
cpuio3	6.7	5.9	4.4	5.3	5.9	M4A785T-M	DDR3 1033 or 1333 4G, 160G HD, AMD 2.7 or 3.1 or 3.4GHz x2
Asus M5A88-M Motherboard, AMD AM 3+ CPU, DDR 3
public01	6.6	7.4	4.3	5.4	5.9	M5A	AMD Black x2 "560" 3.3GHz
public02	6.6	7.4	4.3	5.4	5.9	M5A	AMD x2 "560" Black 3.2GHz
public06	6.6	7.4	4.4	5.5	5.9	M5A	AMD x2 "560" Black 3.2GHz
Asus P8H77-M Motherboard, Intel i3 CPU, DDR 3
rtos1	7.2	7.5	1.0	1.0	5.9	P8H77-M	DDR3 4G 1333 or 1600MHz, 160G or 500G WD HD
rtos2	7.2	7.5	1.0	1.0	5.9	P8H77-M	DDR3 4G 1333 or 1600MHz, 160G or 500G WD HD
rtos3	7.1	7.5	1.0	1.0	5.9	P8H77-M	DDR3 4G 1333 or 1600MHz, 160G or 500G WD HD
ecestaf79	7.1	7.5	5.3	5.8	5.9	P8H77-M	DDR3 8G 1333, 500G WD HD
Asus H81M-C Motherboard, Intel i3-4130 CPU, 2 x 4G DDR 3
testing	7.3	7.6	6.6	6.6	5.9	H81M-C	DDR3 2 x 4G 1333, 160G WD HD

Computer Performance Evaluation

Altera Quartus is our heaviest software and is used as a performance indicator.

For each test case several runs were performed. The first is often garbage.

Feb 2016 and May 2014 Performanc Sumamry

On Centos 5.11 using the ECE 327 tools - compiling multiple ECE 327 Heating System circuits.

Winter 2015 the file server was upgraded to RAID 10 with SSD in parallel with 10k rpm, April 2014 tests were using 15k rpm SAS RAID 10

# Compiles	FX8350 8-core	i7-6700	i7-3770 Apr 2014	i7-3770 Wierd!	Celeron G1620 May 2014	i3-2120 May 2014	i3-4130 May 2014	Celeron G3420 May 2014
1	0:29	0:19	0:23	0:50	0:31	0:27	0:24	0:25
2	0:30	0:18	0:22	0:57	0:34	0:28	0:25	0:28
4	0:33	0:19	0:22	1:14	0:58	0:39	0:35	0:42
8	0:43	0:32	0:30	1:25	1:45	1:10	0:59	1:22
16	1:21	1:03	-	1:02!!	-	-	-	-

May 2013 Performance Summary

On CentOS 5.6 Quartus 10.1 comparing AMD 6-core 3.2GHz 1090T to 8-core 4.0GHz FX 8350. Enabling the overclocking utility on the M5A88-M motherboard made no performance difference.

# compiles	8-core seconds	6-core 1090T seconds
2	46	56
4	55	60
8	70	73
16	120	118

May 2017 ECE 423 Quartus Performance Summary

This is a test compiling the ECE 423 Cyclone V project on Quartus 15.1.

The i3-4170 on the Asus H97M-C are slow for Win 7 and Win 10 only - excellent Linux performance - Driver Issue??

OS	#Cores, base clock, boost clock	CPU Cost	Setup	Synthesis Time Hour:Min:Sec	Passmark Single Threaded Perf
Win 10	6, 3.2GHz, 4.6GHz	$??	i7-8700, AORUS Z370 Ultra Gaming MB, on 500G HDD	19:06, 18:43, 18:45 min:sec	15,240 / 2540
			using local 250G SSD	17:48, 17:37, 17:53
			using samba share to ieee	20:08, 20:15, 20:06
Win 10 1803	4, 3.2GHz, 4.6GHz	-	i7-8700, H310I-PLUS MB, on 500G Samsung 970 SSD	18:20, 18:06, 23:09	15154 / 2779
Win 10 1803	4, 3.2GHz, 4.6GHz	-	on N: drive	19:54, 23:14, 19:49, 20:38	15154 / 2779
Win 10	4, 4.2GHz, 4.5GHz	$470	i7-7700K, H170M MB, on 250G SSD	est. 19 min	12,130 / 2580
Windows 10 1709	6, 2.8 to 4.0GHz	$225	i5-8400, 2x8G, Asus H310Mi-Plus	20:02, 20:01
Windows 10 1709	6, 2.8 to 4.0GHz	$225	i5-8400, 2x16G, Asus H310Mi-Plus	19:32, 19:28, 19:37
Windows 10 1709	4, 3.6GHz	$167	i3-8100, 1x16G, Asus ROG Strix H370-I	22:16, 22:14 (Are these correct? 20:21, 20:23, 21:18 from the Asus H310Mi-Plus MB?)
Windows 10 1709	4, 3.6GHz	$167	i3-8100, 2x16G, Asus ROG Strix H370-I	22:10, 21:45, 21:48, 21:44
Win 10	4, 3.4GHz, 4.0GHz	$400	i7-6700, H170M MB, on 250G SSD	24:09, 22:33, 21:15, 21:09, 21:10, 21:08	10,010 / 2150
Win 10	4, 3.2GHz, 3.6GHz	$270	i5-6500, H170M MB, on 250G SSD	25:02, 22:57, 22:36, 22:28, 22:31	7230 / 1950
Win 10 + Avast	4, 3.2GHz, 3.6GHz	$270	i5-6500, H170M MB, on 250G SSD	22:56, 22:36, 22:35	7230 / 1950
Win 10	4, 3.2GHz, 3.6GHz	$270	i5-6500, H170M MB, on 500G HD	23:24, 22:56, 22:37	7225 / 1950
Win 10	2, 3.5GHz, 4.0GHz	$NA	Intel NUC i7-7567U, on NVMe 512G M.2, 32G RAM (MME)	25:40, 24:40, 24:39	6542 / 2267
Win 10	4, 2.6GHz, 3.5GHz	$NA	Intel NUC i7-6770HQ, on NVMe 256G M.2	26:00, 25:51, 25:58	9690 / 1903
Win 10	2, 3.5GHz, 4.0GHz	$NA	Intel NUC i7-7567U, on NVMe 256G M.2 (ECE)	27:45, 26:58, 27:28, 27:23, 26:08	6520 / 2260
Win 10	2, 3.8GHz, -	$232	i3-6300, H170M MB, 2 x 16G DDR4, on 250G SSD	26:39, 26:58, 26:35, 26:46, 26:11	5850 / 2165
Win 10	2, 3.8GHz, -	$232	i3-6300, H170M MB, 1 x 16G DDR4, on 250G SSD Win setting "performance" no graphical effects	28:55, 26:29, 26:18	5850 / 2165
Win 10 1709	4, 3.5GHz, 3.7GHz	$150	Ryzen-3 2200G, 16G 2666MHz, MSI B350M PRO-VDH MB, on 250G SSD	27:25, 25:11, 25:09	? / ?
Win 10	8, 3.4GHz, 3.8GHz	$480	Ryzen-7 1700X, Prime X370-Pro MB, on 250G SSD	27:55, 27:05	14,640 / 1865
Win 10	8, 3.0GHz, 3.7GHz	$415	Ryzen-7 1700, Prime X370-Pro MB, on 250G SSD	28:37, 28:44, 28:35, 28:37	13,790 / 1765
Win 10	8, 3.0GHz, 3.7GHz	$415	Ryzen-7 1700, 64G 2133MHz, MSI B350M PRO-VDH MB, on 250G SSD	26:18, 25:35, 25:32	13,790 / 1765
Win 10	12, 3.5GHz, 4.0GHz	$1,200	Threadripper 1920X, X399 AORUS Gaming 7 MB, on 500G HD	27:59, 27:23, 27:36	19455 / 2029
Win 10	12, 3.5GHz, 4.0GHz	$1,200	Threadripper 1920X, X399 AORUS Gaming 7 MB, on 250G SSD	28:02, 27:17	19455 / 2029
Win 10	2, 3.7GHz, -	$155	i3-6100, H170M MB, on 250G SSD running lots of other SW	32:07, 29:42, 30:34	5485 / 2105
			running little or no other software	29:01, 27:51
			using 500G 7200rpm HDD	28:50, 29:07, 29:13
Win 10	2, 3.3GHz, -	$NA	i3-3220, P8H77-M MB, on 500G HDD	59:39, 1:00:24	4225 / 1760
Win 10	2, 3.7GHz, -	$NA	i3-4170, H97M-C MB, on 500G HDD	1:30:13, 1:31:31, 1:31:04	5180 / 2130
Win 10	2, 1.6GHz, 2.7GHz	$NA	Intel NUC i5-5250U, on NVMe 256G M.2, 16G DDR3L	1:45:15	3630 / 1450

March 2017 Quartus Performance Summary

The circuit is trival - stoplight from ECE 124 targeting the Max 10 used on the LogicalStep board with Quartus 15.1 on CentOS 7 and Windows 10.

If the Windows 10 was on the Nexus domain or not did not matter. In the past that doubled synthesis times.

OS	Setup	Network	Synthesis Time seconds
Windows 10 21H2 (June 2023) NUC i7-1260P 2.1 to 4.7GHz, 2x8G, boot SSD	Local SSD	1Gb/s	35, 25, 25
Windows 10 1709 i5-8400 2.8 to 4.0GHz, 2x8G H310MI-Plus, boot SSD	Local SSD	1Gb/s	43, 40, 40
Windows 10 1709 i3-8100 3.6GHz, 1x16G ROG Strix H370-I, boot SSD	Local SSD	1Gb/s	45, 43, 43
Windows 10 i3-6100 3.7GHz, 16G H170MB, boot SSD		1Gb/s	43, 42
Windows 10 i3-6100 3.7GHz, 16G H170MB, boot SSD	Samba to ieee server		61, 54, 50, 50, 50
NUC i5-5250U on nvme SSD, 16G DDR3L			3:13, 3:08, 3:08
	Samba to ieee		3:22, 3:26, 3:23
	using Nexus N: drive		4:13, 3:52, 3:42
i5-6500 on SSD			44, 41, 41, 41
	Samba to ieee		49, 50, 50, 49, 49
	on Nexus using N: drive		50, 46, 46, 45
H170, i3-6100 office Nexus machine	N: drive	1Gb/s	50, 51, 50
	Samba to ieee		57, 54, 56
	Samba to eceServ1		61, 67, 64, 67!!
H170, i7-7700K, 10Gb/s	Ubuntu 18.04	10Gb/s	38, 38, 37, 37
H170, i7-7700K, 10Gb/s	local SSD	10Gb/s	34, 33, 32, 32
H170, i7-6700, 1Gb/s	N: drive	1Gb/s	52, 51, 52, 63
	Samba to ieee		47, 47, 46, 47
	Samba to eceServ1		58, 61, 57, 58
	local SSD		53, 39, 39, 39, 39
eceLinux1, i7-6700, 64G, 1Gb/s	NFS to eceServ1	1Gb/s	39, 44, 40, 42
eceLinux1, i7-6700, 64G, 1Gb/s	local SSD	1Gb/s	38, 37, 36, 36
eceLinux9, Ryzen 1700X CentOS 7, 64G 2133MHz KVR, 10Gb/s	NFS to eceServ1	10Gb/s	44, 44, 42, 43
eceLinux9, Ryzen 1700X CentOS 7, 64G 2133MHz KVR, 10Gb/s	local HDD	10Gb/s	38, 37, 38, 39
Ryzen-7 1700 Win 10, 64G 2133MHz KVR, 1Gb/s	Samba to ieee	1Gb/s	58, 54, 54, 54
	ECE P: drive		71, 62, 60, 59
	Nexus N: drive		56, 55, 53
	local SSD		49, 49, 48
VM CentOS 7 on i5-6500 3.2GHz with VM on FreeNAS via NFS	VM has 2 cores		61, 51, 52, 51
VM CentOS 7 on i5-6500 3.2GHz with VM on FreeNAS via NFS	VM has 4-cores		52, 51, 51
Intel NUC i7-7567U 2-core 2.6 3.5GHz boost (MME)	local NVMe M.2	1Gb/s	40, 39, 40
Intel NUC i7-7567U 2-core 2.6 3.5GHz boost (MME)	Samba to ieee	1Gb/s	50, 51, 51, 56
Intel NUC i7-6770HQ 4-core 2.6 to 3.5GHz	local NVMe M.2	1Gb/s	42, 41, 41, 41
Intel NUC i7-7567U 2-core 3.5 to 4.0GHz (ECE)	local NVMe M.2	1Gb/s	45, 43, 43, 43
Intel NUC i7-7567U 2-core 3.5 to 4.0GHz (ECE)	Samba to ieee	1Gb/s	54, 53, 53, 53
Intel Gold 5120 Xeon 14-core 2.2 to 3.2GHz running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS	NFS eceServ1	10Gb/s	55, 54, 54
	local SSD	10Gb/s	49, 51, 49, 50
Intel Gold 5120 Xeon 14-core 2.2 to 3.2GHz running CentOS 7.3 Linux with 3.10.0-693.11.6 kernel does not clock past 2.2GHz	NFS eceServ1	1Gb/s	57, 57, 58
	local SSD	1Gb/s	74, 51, 53, 53
AMD Threadripper 12-core 3.5 to 4.0GHz running CentOS 7.3 Linux	local 500G HDD	1Gb/s	52, 36, 36, 35
	Samba to P: drive	1Gb/s	41, 40, 39
AMD Threadripper 12-core 3.5 to 4.0GHz running Win 10 Edu	local 500G HDD	1Gb/s	42, 43, 43, 42
	local SSD		44, 42, 42
	Samba to ieee		48, 48, 50, 48
Intel i7-8700 6-core 3.2 / 4.6GHz boost running Win 10 Edu.	local 500G HDD	1Gb/s	SSD: 39, 39, 38, 39 HDD: 42, 39, 38, 39
Intel i7-8700 6-core 3.2 / 4.6GHz boost running Win 10 Edu.	Samba to ieee	1Gb/s	44, 43, 44, 43
Intel i7-8700 6-core 3.2 / 4.6GHz boost running CentOS 7 3.10.0-693 kernel	local 500G HDD	1Gb/s	50, 37, 37, 38, 37
	NFS to eceServ	1Gb/s	41, 41, 42

March 2014 Quartus Performance Summary

This is compiling a trivial circuit - 3 LE's and 14 I/O pins.

To use ModelSim ASE Tools -> Options -> EDA Tool Options and then set ModelSim Altera to c:\Software\Altera\13.1\modelsim_ase\win32aloem

Quartus Version	FPGA Family	Synthesis Time seconds	Memory Use
9.0, 10.1 x86	Cyclone II	25	200M
13.0 x86 or x64	Cyclone II, III, IV	26 to 33	300M
13.1 x64	Cyclone II, III, IV	30 to 33	300M
13.1 x64	Cyclone V	83 to 99	1.1G

June 2012 Performance Summary

Using CentOS 6.2 x64 with Quartus 11

Intel i3-2100, 3.1GHz, 3M cache, 4G DDR3 RAM, Asus P8H77-M, Antec MT351 PS, CentOS 6.2
AMD "550", dual core, 3.1GHz, 4G DDR2 RAM, Asus M3A785T-M, Antec PS, CentOS 5.7
AMD "1090T", 6-core, 3.2GHz, 16G DDR3 RAM, Asus M5A785-M, Antec PS, CentOS 5.7

Computer	Power Use 80Plus Bronze 2W when off/standby		Number of simul. compiles
	BIOS	Linux	1x	2x	4x	8x
Intel i5-2320 on P8Z77-V LX programs are on NFS server Sparkle ATX-450 PN PS	60.4W	51.5W	39,38	42,41	49,42	1:08, 1:08
Intel i5-2320 on P8Z77-V LX programs are on local HD Sparkle ATX-450 PN PS	60.4W	51.5W	34,34	37,37	42,41	1:03, 1:05, 1:04
Intel i5-2320 on P8Z77-V LX Sparkle ATX-450 PN PS	60.4W	51.5W	38	41	42	1:08, 1:08
Intel i3-2100 on P8H77-M	40	27W Win 7 (65W pk)	38	42,42	53,56	1:30, 1:30
AMD "550" on M4A785T-M	78W	43W (Win XP)	47, 49	49, 50	1:16, 1:19	2:02, 2:12
AMD "560" on M5A88-M	81W	56W (Win 7)
AMD "1090T" on M5A88-M	112W	89W (160W pk)	49, 53	51, 53	56, 56	64, 61

October 2011 Performance Summary

Win 7 x64 has aprox. 30% performance gains over Win XP x32. Win 7 on 2.5GHz x2 is comparable to Win XP on 3.4GHz x2.
Dual core CPUs have a slight 10% benefit
SAV (Symantec anti-virus) has an aprox. 10% performance hit
USB Keys are the worst performers (Altera compiles) at upto 3x slower than a local HD.
The local HD is always the fastest

	Quartus 10.1 x64, Win 7, 4G RAM, M2N PV-VM, DDR2				Q11.1 x64, Win 7, 4G RAM, M5A88V	Q9.0 x32, Win XP, 4G RAM, M3A785	Q 10.1 x64 Win 7, Intel i3 4G RAM, P8H77-M	Q10.1 x64 Win 7, 4G RAM, M5A88-M
Disk	2.2GHz x1	2.5GHz x2	2.5G x2 + SAV	2.7GHz LE1640	"250" 3.0GHz x2 DDR3	"270" 3.4GHz x2 DDR2	i3-2100 3.1GHz x2 3M cache, DDR3	"560" 3.3GHz x2 DDR3, 7M cache
Nexus N:	33,39,38	25,26	30,28,25,30	39,29,29,29	31,32,32	39,27,24,25 Win7 Q10.1 is 20, 20,19,19	20, 21, 22, 21 i3-2120 is 18, 17, 18	25, 21, 20, 19
Local HD	26,26	24,18,19,18	19,19	-	13,13,13	23,21	12, 12	12, 12, 12
Linux IEEE (single HD)	34,32	22,23,23	-	-	43,26,25	25,25,25	16, 18, 17, 16	18, 18, 18
Linux P: (SAS 15k rpm RAID 6)	36,34	25,24	25,25	-	-	-
USB Key	55,56	47,43	-	-	40,44,40	41,41,43	34, 36, 37	35, 34, 34

Summer 2011 Quartus 9.0 vs 10.1 Performance Tests

	Hardware	RAM	Q 9.0 x32 Win XP
Eric's Nexus 3.1GHz x2	3G	37, 28, 26	35, 23, 25
Q9.0 x64 3.1GHz x2	2G	23, 11, 10, 10
2.6GHz 1-core	2.5G	33, 23, 21, 21
	2G	34, 23, 25	37, 23, 22
	1G	34, 26
	512M	166 !!
2.5GHz 2-core	1G	33, 23, 21, 21	46, 22, 22
2.5GHz 2-core	2G	32, 21, 22	38, 19, 19
3.1GHz 2-core	2G	28, 17, 18	34, 14, 15
3.1GHz 2-core	4G	28, 17, 17	34, 14, 15
2.3GHz 2-core, M2N-PV, Win 7	4G	32, 22, 22	19, 19
2.2GHz 1-core, M2N-PV, Win 7	4G	38, 27, 31, 27	28, 26, 26, 26

Computer Problems

RDP EngTerm Issue

If having issues with Remote Desktop (RDP) to EngTerm have the user delete the file default.rdp from the Documents folder - the file is likely hidden so turn on show hidden files under the view folder options.

MobaXterm

Users install make but it doesn't follow them. MobaXterm unpacks itself into the user profileAppData/Local/Temp/Mxt111 or Roaming ???. If make is installed it's 100MB - too big for the profile.

One option is to pre-install the tools and unzip it into C:\software\mobaxterm-root - but will it work as read-only? - July 2019

Prolific Driver, PL2303, i-7561, Windows 10

The correct driver for our RS485 devices is NOT the Prolific driver but the driver in the file SCADA-driver-i-756x_1223_ driverinstaller.exe In Windows the device should show up as i-756x driver. If the Prolific driver is detected (it has the same PID and VID 2303, 067B) then right click and delete the driver. Note: The Prolific driver seems to be downloaded by Windows automagically. Apr 2019

ETap 16.0, 16.1 and 18.0

Users can start ETap but when running a simulation an error, related to the database such as:
Failed to connect to database" ETap 18
"exception retrieve database version information ... SQL cannot create automatic instance 0x89C50118" on ETap 16.0 or 16.1

The fix:
ETAP 14 and higher ETAP versions use SQL 2012 Express Local DB for project database. It seems the SQL instance require to connect to the ETAP projects is failing.
Please double click to run the file 'CleanUpLocalDB.cmd' located at Folder 1) C:\ETAP 1800\Other\CleanUpLocalDB.cmd

ComSol 4.4 and Win 7

Simulations result in black output. The problem is mentioned here https://www.comsol.com/support/knowledgebase/933/ and the fix is:

The quickest solution is to switch to software rendering:

Start COMSOL Multiphysics.

To open the Preferences dialog box, in the COMSOL Desktop:

Windows users: From the File menu, select Preferences.

Cross-platform (Mac and Linux) users and COMSOL Version 4.0 to 4.3b: From the main menu select Options>Preferences.

In the Preferences window select Graphics and Plot Windows (Version 4.4 and later) or Graphics (Versions 4.0 to 4.3b) and set the Rendering option to Software.

Click OK and close the COMSOL Desktop.

Ryzen & CentOS 7

7 June 2018 - Ryzen 3 2200G works with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS or newer and I can see the BIOS - but only with direct connection to the monitor - not thru the KVM switch I always use.

As of March 2018 - Ryzen 3 2200G APU will not turn on the video in an MSI B350M PRO-VDH motherboard. Switching between Ryzen 7 and 2200G requires resetting the BIOS. It will boot and run Linux fine with the 2200G.

CentOS 7.4 is unstable on the Ryzen 7 & MSI B350M PRO-VDH motherboard crashing at least daily with a CPU core "stuck".

Ubuntu 16.04 with 4.13 kernel is stable with the Ryzen 7. About 6 months previous CentOS 7.3 was stable with Ryzen.

KVM - unable to migrate VMs

Virt IO Advanced -> Performance ->Cache NONE to allow migration.

CentOS 7 Apache upgrade creates timezone errors on PHP

Just add date_default_timezone_set ( "America/Toronto" ); before time functions

mysql on eceLinux4

Use this to find the settings: mysqld --verbose --help
max_connections = 151 , open_files_limit = 5000
We're hitting the open_files limit regularily

Note that checking the settings shows them with "-" instead of "_". Ie max-connections 151

sftp failure with CentOS

Feb 2014 - sftp to the Linux machines fails if the account is configured for ECE327. The bash or csh printing the message about the account configuration for ECE 327 makes sftp fail with "Received message too long 1229866575". The solution is to wrap the 327 setup script:

if ( $?TERM == 1 ) then
#       set noglob
	source /home/ece327/setup-ece327.csh
#       unset noglob
    endif

Asus P8H77-M Motherboard Failures

As of 2006 I'm seeing two failure modes for the Asus P8H77-M motherboard:

r8168 NIC failure - lights still blink, driver still installs but Windows 7/10 and Linux can't talk on the network
Hangs - when going into some sort of power saving mode? the computer hangs tight - USB mouse turned off, no response to the keyboard or CTRL-ALT-DEL
move the CPU and RAM to another motherboard and all is well - reinstall, new boot drive - doesn't help

In all cases I don't see failing capacitors. Out of about 120 installed, 3 have failed totally, 2 have lost the NIC and 4 are hanging - within 4 years.

Asus M4A785T-M Motherboard Capacitor Failure

The two 820uF caps by the SATA connectors puff and fail starting 2.5 years after being put into service. It only seems to happen to the capacitors stamped with a "+" on the top (Feb 2013). Failure of the caps results in a failure of the motherboard to boot. Replace them and all motherboards work again.

Asus M2NPV-VM Motherboard and PS/2 and USB

Enabling CPU Virtualization seems to solve the interrupt issue (mouse or keyboard not working if they're USB) which can plague the last BIOS

ECS P6BXT+ (? 333MHz AMD K6 CPU) Motherbard Capacitor Failure

Caps by the voltage regulator fail - half of the time destroying the motherboard.

Computer Evaluation

Jan 2008 - ComSol P3 vs P4

P3 systems are 600MHz to 1GHz with 256M to 384M of RAM. P4 systems are 1.5 to 2.4GHz with 512M ram. A Comsol 3D simulation was run on all machines.
P3's -- 19 to 25 seconds
P4's -- 8 to 10 seconds

Note that Intel has had the rug pulled from them by AMD and are
moving fast to catch up. They've "killed" their Pentium line of
processes and are now calling them "core". These are due to come
our real soon now. I believe that they've, finally, wrapped the
Intel Mobile power saving features into their desktop CPUs to
reduce power consumption.

PROBLEMS
--------
1) Only one serial port and it doesn't come out of the case by default.
We need 2 serial ports for the Coldfire computers.
We can do this via a dual serial port card ($52 per card).
Another possible solution may be USB <--> Serial adapters but
this is very unlikely as the serial communication programs do
not yet support USB.

2) Fedora Core 5 installed and worked well - AFTER I droped in a supported
network card and did a full OS update.

TESTS
-----
AMD system works with Norton Ghost (finding NDIS drivers was awkward and
the boot CD had to be manually massaged).

AMD system works with auto and locked network speed/duplex.

AMD system seems to automatically use power saving features with Fedora
Core 5, and it's easy to add with Windows (enable Minimal Power Saving
Mode after installing Power Now.

Quartus Performance Tests - Winter 2014
----------------------------------------

While considering FPGA boards to replace the DE2 it was discovered that synthesis times were dramatically larger for newer boards. The circuit being compiled was close to trivial - just a few gates between input and output.

DE2 Cyclone II 35,000 LEs
DE2-115 Cyclone IV 115,000 LEs
DE1-Soc Cyclone V

Quartus II 13.1 Synth. Times
- - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Cyclone III EP3c5f256C6 42, 38 sec
Cyclone IV EP4ce115f23C7 1:05, 1:04,:1:02
Cyclone V 5csema5f31C6 2:18, 2:23, 2:22

ECE 224 / 324 / 325 Test
Eclipse -> New - > NIOS II SBP Template
Start -> Nios -> Build Tools for Eclipse, use project directory /software
Generate: 6:09, 6:15 with USB drive; on the N: disk 3:38, 2:04

PERFORMANCE
-----------
This compares performance using Altera Quartus II 6.0 for compiling a sample
ECE 325 processor in VHDL. This is the most CPU intensive application in
our PC labs. Compile times are currently around 5 minutes using an Quartus II
3.0 on existing P3's (1.2 to 1.4 GHz).

Power Draw
----------
P4 3.0GHz HT System - 200W power draw, noisy fans
P4 3.0GHz Celeron Dual System - 110W, noisy fans
P4 2.4GHz Celeron - 85W, noisy fans

P3 System - 55W power draw

Historical power consumption:
P2 System - 47W
P1 System - 33W
486 System - 25W
386 System - 32W

AMD System - 55W power draw most of time, peaking 100W when number crunching

Performance
-----------
P3-1.2GHz - 2:45 compile time on C: disk (2:50 on N: disk!)

P4-2.4GHz Celeron - 1:25 compile time
P4-3.0GHz D Celeron - 1:20 compile time (dual cpu Celeron)
P4-3.0GHz HT P4 - 1:10 compile time (hyper-threading, quasi dual CPU)

AMD Athlon 64 2.2GHz (rated 3.5GHz) - 1:00 compile time
AMD Athlon 64 Dual 2GHz (rated 3.8GHz) - 1:00 compile time (dual CPU)

System Info:
AMD - joined to Nexus, minimal software install
P3 - typical Nexus machine, fully loaded with s/w and NAV
P4 - not on Nexus, NAV added a 1 sec delay to compile times

System Cost:
AMD 2GHZ Athlon 64 A8N-VM, $447
AMD 2.2GHZ Dual Athlon 64 A8N-VM, $630

P4P800VM P4 $503
P4P800VM Celeron dual $337
CPU prices +$120 for P4, +$230 for Mobile P4
AMD CPU 2GHz mobile $106,
2GHz Athlon 64 $197,
2.2GHz Dual Athlon 64 $381,

July 2006 - NOTE new AM2 processor using DDR2 coming no CSM M/B yet.

Investigation

Card Swiper Configuration

To set the baud speed (1200N81) with Centos 5.2 in rc.local add "stty -F /dev/ttyS0 1200"

To set the automatic login (GUI widget doesn't work) edit /etc/gdm/custom.conf

Add the user to the group which holds the serial port to allow access.

There is no password, and auto login, for the default account so disable keyboard locking.

HTTPS on Centos 5.x

genkey server_name.x.com

From http://davmp.kimanddave.com/2008/03/30/installing-mailman-to-use-https-on-centos-51/

# You.ll need to insert two RewriteRule lines in your httpd config files to redirect all non-https requests for Mailman features to the https site. And if you don.t have any rewrite features setup elsewhere, you.ll need a couple of other lines. You can find out the most about this process by reading the Apache docs for the RewriteEngine here. But, since I.ve already got a virtual host file that represents the config I want to have Mailman show up as a part of, I simply added lines like the following:


   ...
   RewriteEngine        on
   RewriteCond          %{HTTPS} !=on
   RewriteRule          ^/mailman/(.*) https://davmp.kimanddave.com/mailman/$1 [L,R]
   RewriteRule          ^/pipermail/(.*) https://davmp.kimanddave.com/pipermail/$1 [L,R]



   ...
   Include "conf.d/mailman.conf.include"


And then renamed /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf to /etc/httpd/conf.d/mailman.conf.include. These settings prevent Apache from allowing these URLs to work for any other virtual hosts.

Investigation

Sunfire V65x, Intel SE7501WW2 motherboard, 4G, Dual dual core 3.06GHz Xeon (32 bit), Nov 2008

The onboard raid is Adaptec 7902 software raid. It may support hot swapping of drives available at boot time - but it does not support adding extra drives when booted.

Power draw for these servers is around 220W at boot time and 140W when running Centos 5. A modern quad core Xeon blade server sucks 140W with dual 15k RPM HDs. Both are much higher than comparable AMD systems (typically 45W for a dual core in light use).

I tested the system by setting up RAID 1, installed the OS and pulled one HD. Immediately the OS gave errors about the pulled drive. Booting into the RAID controller software revealed that the RAID array was "optimal"! Reboot with the HD re-inserted and all seems well. I was not able to find how the software raid was being done. /proc/mdstat revealed nothing. When I pulled the one harddrive again the OS pretty well hung. This is symptomatic of software RAID with RedHat.

The raid used revolves around the dmraid commands. "dmraid -l" to list support -r to list the current setup and driver. Then "-s -s asr_raid1array" lists the raid particulars.

The Ultra 320 SCSI HDs are curious. I've seen one where the BIOS, at boot time, flagged it as failing - but the SMART tools said that the health status was fine. The drive had bad sectors but SMART monitoring was not reporting that - only the temperature. I inserted a failing HD and it was not detected at boot time - but the SMART Health Status was failing.

My conclusion is that the RAID on these blade servers is less than useless.

Hard Drive Performance Tests - November 2014

Increasing SSD, 2x striped SSD, 3x striped SSD

Intel i3 testbed Asus P8H77-M motherboard 4 x 8G RAM, Adaptec 6805e RAID Controller	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks
	Size	Per Char K/sec	%CP	Per Block K/sec	%CP	Rewrite K/Sec	%CP	Per Chr K/sec	%CP	Block	%CP	Random Seeks /sec	%CP	Files
i3 testbed, tmp, 8G RAM ST 80G HD - Nov2014	15488M	113549	98	192080	13	137832	14	137832	14	113282	96	722060	35

Increasing SSD, 2x striped SSD, 3x striped SSD

Intel i3 testbed Asus P8H77-M motherboard 4 x 8G RAM, Adaptec 6805e RAID Controller	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks
	Size	Per Char K/sec	%CP	Per Block K/sec	%CP	Rewrite K/Sec	%CP	Per Chr K/sec	%CP	Block	%CP	Random Seeks /sec	%CP	Files
Mirrored
WD Green mirror	63960M	91861	82	93702	6	46769	4	103267	92	196994	8	437.3	1	16
i3-ssd-5400x1-mirror	63960M	111009	95	114337	8	71804	6	110305	93	599232	25
i3-ssd-5400x1-mirror	63960M	106161	92	107771	7	68430	6	110972	94	602734	25
SSD mirroring 500G 7,200 rpm	63960M	115539	99	130346	9	78779	7	110557	94	600073	25
1TB SSD mirroring 10k rpm Velociraptor	63960M	115353	99	148500	10	86225	7	111105	94	592113	25
i3-ssd-SAS-mirror	63960M	115926	99	206926	14	100789	9	113142	96	586938	24
1TB SSD mirror	63960M	115585	99	408203	26	203795	19	116808	99	830451	35
Striped Across Two Drives
i3 testbed RAID 10 2x1TB SSD, 2x Green WD, 8G RAM - Nov2014	15488M	113549	98	192080	13	137832	14	137832	14	113282	96	722060	35
i3 testbed RAID 10 2x1TB SSD, 2x Green WD - i3-2SSD-2greenHD, 32G RAM	63960M	115840	99	191006	13	111572	10	116488	99	748610	33
i3-striped7200s	63960M	115346	99	267073	18	97241	8	111901	95	277322	12	396.4	1	16
i3-stripedVelociraptors	63960M	115523	99	257582	17	93084	8	112779	96	266946	11	670.2	1	16
i3-2SSD-2greenHD	63960M	115840	99	191006	13	111572	10	116488	99	748610	33
i3-ssd-7200-x2-raid10	63960M	116351	99	266619	18	116523	11	115262	98	444195	19	878.0	2	16
i3-ssd-velo-x4-raid10	63960M	115311	99	260695	17	123764	11	114368	97	464339	20	1486.9	3	16
i3-ssd-SAS-x4-raid10	63960M	113218	99	400418	26	180754	17	109283	97	569758	25	2124.8	4	16
i3-striped15kSAS	63960M	116491	99	418576	26	161056	14	114495	97	433179	19	986.1	2	16
i3-striped15kSAS	63960M	116337	99	387681	25	148908	13	114809	97	404124	17	961.7	2	16
2 1TB SSDs striped	63960M	113350	99	800885	50	292968	28	116128	98	831256	35
Striped Across Three Drives
i3-WDgreen-strip3, no SSDs	63960M	115333	99	285490	19	108748	9	113324	96	294216	12	452.8	1	16
i3-SSD-WDGreenRAID10x6 (redone)	63960M	115639	99	285154	19	167755	16	114445	97	741850	33
i3-SSD-WDGreenRAID10x6 (redone again)	63960M	115642	99	279869	18	165685	16	114490	97	743868	33
i3-ssd-7200-x3-raid10	63960M	115427	99	381174	24	164407	15	114611	97	550458	24	1333.0	3	16
3 1TB SSD's striped	63960M	113128	99	905738	58	333320	33	111076	99	840572	36
FreeNAS vs CentOS	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks		Sequential Create							Random Create
FreeNAS vs CentOS	Size	Per Char		Per Block		Rewrite		Per Chr		Block		Random Seeks		Files	Create		Read		Delete		Create		Read		Delete
		K/sec	%CP	K/sec	%CP	K/Sec	%CP	K/sec	%CP	K/Sec	%CP	/sec	%CP		per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP
FreeNAS 4 x 1TB SSD to Client via 10GBe Network, March 2016
SuperMicro FreeNAS 10Gbe with 4x 1TB SSD to SuperMicro 10Gbe CentOS 7	128168M	182710	99	1061873	29	311626	15	164701	97	331800	8	3547.2	7	16	6027	11	+++++	+++	6181	12	6127	12	+++++	+++	11102	9
SuperMicro FreeNAS 1Gbe with 4x 1TB SSD to SuperMicro 1Gbe CentOS 7	128168M	11464	7	10016	0	7156	0	14406	8	14368	0	1745.3	3	16	1095	0	28088	0	1638	0	1362	0	4419	36	2329	0
SuperMicro FreeNAS 10Gbe i5 server with 3 x 1TB RAIDz, CentOS 6 i3 10Gbe client, FreeNAS10gb	63848M	185924	99	1111280	33	179262	8	167769	91	230131	4	2867.3	1	16	4571	11	+++++	+++	3761	11	5170	14	+++++	+++	8361	15
SuperMicro FreeNAS 100Mb with 4x 1TB SSD to SuperMicro 100Mb CentOS 7	128168M	11468	14	11467	1	6901	1	12404	24	13175	1	1070.0	6	16	493	11	17779	9	677	9	499	12	1042	32	1005	0
AMD 8-core FX to 1Gb/s eceSERV RAID 10 3 of SSD and 3 of HD	63840M	63975	96	96058	7	45568	10	65800	99	100507	10	1960.0	7	16	1113	3	2531	6	1142	6	1106	4	2792	5	1382	5
eceLinux1-InfiniHost-to-i3-raid10-ssd-10krpm-Serv-NFSoRDMA	128304M	157857	79	105521	6	136272	12	183754	99	608778	17	3117.1	11	16	3348	5	+++++	+++	5620	5	3574	6	20763	9	6845	6
eceLinux2-to-i3-raid10-ssd-10krpm-eceServ-NFSoRDMA	128304M	148413	75	86777	5	136715	14	185525	99	612089	39	2772.8	13	16	9577	10	+++++	+++	15481	11	8249	10	+++++	+++	12548	13

InfiniBand Data Corruption - July 2016

Setup HP ConnectX-2 cards connected to a Voltaire 4036 switch at QDR speeds with Mellanox cables. CentOS 6 on the NFS file server - using Datagram or Connected mode to share files to CentOS 6 or CentOS 7 clients. All CentOS machines use the stock InfiniBand support. NFS sharing using IPoIB or RDMA.

Symptom Large text files (18M and 160M) with 2 columns of numbers get corrupted in a repeatable pattern. Using RDMA results in might higher corruption (7772 vs 960 lines corrupted). No errors are reported by the OS or switch. Using ibqueryerrors and diffing it before and after reading a corrupted file shows no change in the errors.

Ethernet vs InfiniBand (SDR, QDR)

These tests were done using cheap i3 and AMD based systems running CentOS 7. InfiniHost III DDR cards were used with a SDR (10Gb/s clock or 8Gb/s actual switch). Direct connected ConnectX-2 cards were used for the QDR tests. The client and server booted from 7200 rpm 500G HDs. For performance tests a Samsung EVO 850 500G SSD was used and it's performance maxes out at about 10Gb/s. However, the latency of the SSD is much lower than that of 10Gb ethernet.

A very easy test to run is fio on the links. The command options used were:
fio --rw=randread --bs=64k --numjobs=4 --iodepth=8 --runtime=30 --time_based --loops=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --fsync_on_close=1 --randrepeat=1 --norandommap --exitall --name task1 --filename=/testing/junk/1.txt --size=10000000

Network	GB Data in 30 sec	Aggregate Bandwidth (MB/s, Gb/s)	Bandwidth (Mb/s, MB/s)	latency (ms)	iops
QDR IB 40Gb/s NFS over RDMA	94	3,100, 25	802, 6.4	0.615	12,535
DDR IB 20Gb/s NFS over RDMA	24.4	834, 6.7	208, 1.7	2.4	3256
SDR IB 10Gb/s NFS over RDMA	22.3	762, 6.1	190, 1.5	2.57	2978
QDR IB 40Gb/s	16.7	568, 4.5	142, 1.1	3.4	2218
DDR IB 20Gb/s	13.9	473, 3.8	118, 0.94	4.1	1845
SDR IB 10Gb/s	13.8	470, 3.8	117, 0.94	4.2	1840
10Gb/s ethernet	5.9	202, 1.6	51, 0.41	9.7	793
1Gb/s ethernet	3.2	112, 0.90	28	17.8	438
100Mb/s ethernet	346MB	11.5	2.9	174	45
10Mb/s ethernet via switch	36MB	1.2	279kB/s	1797	4
10Mb/s ethernet via hub	33MB	1.0	260kB/s	1920	4

NOTE: It is clear from the NFS over RDMA data above that the ConnectX-2 card (QDR or 40Gb/s) has signif. better performance than the older InfiniHost III cards run at SDR or DDR speeds

Ethernet vs InfiniBand	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks		Sequential Create							Random Create
Ethernet vs InfiniBand	Size	Per Char		Per Block		Rewrite		Per Chr		Block		Random Seeks		Files	Create		Read		Delete		Create		Read		Delete
		K/sec	%CP	K/sec	%CP	K/Sec	%CP	K/sec	%CP	K/Sec	%CP	/sec	%CP		per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP
NFSoIB InfiniBand Tests using CentOS 7
TEST TO LOCAL 7200rpm HD on client?? NFS1gB-to-ssd	128128M	93253	52	78956	3	39927	2	104771	61	126355	3	146.6	0	16	116	2	32004	28	115	1	114	2	2241	23	115	1
40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR-IB-NFS to a 7200rpm HD	128128M	80589	54	73291	7	40351	7	97960	61	113744	8	140.2	0	16	115	2	+++++	+++	115	1	113	2	+++++	+++	114	1
1Gb/s ethernet to SSD on server	128128M	111587	59	114273	2	88361	3	123485	71	147153	2	7349.8	8	16	1855	8	+++++	+++	4340	5	1975	7	2327	10	5243	3
IB-SDR-to-ssd	128128M	172504	98	372110	15	205330	14	158240	99	702011	23	8275.7	33	16	4580	14	+++++	+++	8401	17	4461	16	+++++	+++	19318	14
40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR-IB-NFS to an SSD	128128M	185401	98	507588	31	241786	17	168968	99	702065	22	12098.4	18	16	6631	15	+++++	+++	9521	20	6466	18	+++++	+++	21849	18
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-ssd	128128M	183721	98	505062	33	251227	24	175136	99	704626	45	9183.0	45	16	10997	15	+++++	+++	17611	18	10897	18	+++++	+++	28937	17
SSD tested on the server	23G	116827	98	551325	35	240756	22	110494	99	666847	28	+++++	+++	16	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++
striped-2-SSDs-speed-on-server	23G	119803	99	680627	39	301202	25	111599	98	873434	23	+++++	+++	16	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA to 2 striped ssds	128128M	187368	99	592361	36	326021	21	176537	99	1081013	56	9373.2	38	16	14954	16	+++++	+++	20493	17	14270	17	+++++	+++	28693	16
IB-DDR-NFSoRDMA-to-RAIDz-3-ssd	128128M	184130	99	681531	38	334695	35	173072	99	993987	29	5214.1	10	16	1756	6	+++++	+++	1462	11	1797	6	19544	10	1549	11
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-RAIDz-3-ssd	128128M	184594	99	688436	37	339845	34	175052	99	1018267	46	4801.2	25	16	1351	19	+++++	+++	1237	17	1354	15	+++++	+++	1436	15
ZFS-RAIDz-3-ssds-on-server	23G	126824	99	766040	79	352183	53	111284	99	815423	41	5484.1	18	16	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	29821	99	+++++	+++	+++++	+++
btrfs-3-ssds-on-server	23G	123233	99	416982	14	170231	14	109029	98	427480	16	+++++	+++	16	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++	+++++	+++
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-BTRfs-3-ssd	128128M	182386	96	368255	26	205813	24	174850	99	532123	34	6632.5	32	16	14425	16	+++++	+++	21168	14	14811	17	+++++	+++	20127	12

Here is a simplified version of the above table.

Ethernet vs InfiniBand Terse Summary	Sequential Output			Sequential Input		Random Seeks	Sequential Create			Random Create
Ethernet vs InfiniBand Terse Summary	Per Char	Per Block	Rewrite	Per Chr	Block		Create	Read	Delete	Create	Read	Delete
	M/sec	M/sec	M/Sec	M/sec	M/Sec	thousands /sec	per sec	per sec	per sec	per sec	per sec	per sec
Bonnie++ tests of a client to a server
TEST TO LOCAL 7200rpm HD on client?? NFS1gB-to-ssd	93	79	40	105	126	0.15	116	32004	115	114	2241	115
40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR-IB-NFS to a 7200rpm HD	81	73	40	98	114	0.14	115	+++++	115	113	+++++	114
1Gb/s ethernet to SSD on server	112	114	88	123	147	7.3	1855	+++++	4340	1975	2327	5243
10Gb/s InfiniBand SDR to an SSD	173	372	205	158	702	8.3	4580	+++++	8401	4461	+++++	19318
40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR-IB-NFS to an SSD	185	508	242	169	702	12	6631	+++++	9521	6466	+++++	21849
File System Test on the Server
SSD tested on the server	117	551	241	110	667	+++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++
Adaptec 6805e RAID 2 striped SSDs on the server	120	681	301	112	873	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++
ZFS-RAIDz-3-ssds-on-server	127	766	352	111	815	5.5	+++++	+++++	+++++	29821	+++++	+++++
btrfs-3-ssds-on-server	123	417	170	109	427	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++
File System Test from an NFS Client
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-BTRfs-3-ssd	182	368	206	175	532	6.6	14425	+++++	21168	14811	+++++	20127
40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR NFS over RDM to SSD	184	505	251	175	705	9.2	10997	+++++	17611	10897	+++++	28937
40Gb/s InfiniBand QDR NFS over RDMA to 2 striped ssds	187	592	326	177	1081	9.4	14954	+++++	20493	14270	+++++	28693
IB-DDR-NFSoRDMA-to-RAIDz-3-ssd	184	682	335	173	994	5.2	1756	+++++	462	1797	19544	1549
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-RAIDz-3-ssd	185	688	340	175	1018	4.8	1351	+++++	1237	1354	+++++	1436
Different Hardware for Comparison - File System Test from an NFS Client
FreeNAS 3x1TB SSD RAIDz 10Gb/s ethernet to client	186	1111	179	168	230	2.9	4571	+++++	3761	5170	+++++	8361
AMD 8-core FX to 1Gb/s AMD based eceSERV RAID 10 3 of SSD and 3 of HD	64.0	96.1	45.6	66	101	1.96	1113	2531	1142	1106	2792	1382
eceLinux1-InfiniHost-to-i3-raid10-ssd-10krpm-Serv-NFSoRDMA	158	106	136	184	609	3.1	3348	+++++	5620	3574	20763	6845
eceLinux2-ConnectX2-to-i3-raid10-ssd-10krpm-Serv-NFSoRDMA	148	87	137	186	612	2.8	9577	+++++	15481	8249	+++++	12548

Performance Test of ZFSonLinux CentOS 7

Before deploying a new file server I performed some performance tests after finding Quartus compiles to be slower than expected.

2 simultaneous compiles took 20 secs on the old file server (hybrid raid 10 with 3 of 1TB SSDs and 3 10k rpm HDs) with hardware RAID and 33 seconds on the ZFSonLinux server (4 of 1TB SSDs in RAIDz. Tests of 1, 4 or 8 compiles at a time were similarily affected.

eceServ has a messed up RAID 10 array. It has 1 SSD in parallel with an SSD, 1 HD with a SSD in parallel and two HDs in parallel so performance is suboptimal from the original configuration - 3 SSDs with 3 HDs in parellel.

fio test indicates that the network connection to old and new file servers is exactly the same (they have same switches and routers in the path and same motherboard and DDR4 RAM and model of SSDs ...

The first 3 tests involving mounting the file system on a client machine with 3 different methods and the last test is a bonnie++ test of the file system on the server itself.

The file system is 4 of 1TB Samsung 850 EVO SSDs in RAIDz with a pair of HDs on a raid controller for booting.

All tests done with kernel kernel-3.10.0-327.28.2.el7.x86_64 except as noted below.

Ethernet vs InfiniBand Terse Summary	Sequential Output			Sequential Input		Random Seeks	Sequential Create			Random Create			Quartus Compile
Ethernet vs InfiniBand Terse Summary	Per Char	Per Block	Rewrite	Per Chr	Block		Create	Read	Delete	Create	Read	Delete
	M/sec	M/sec	M/Sec	M/sec	M/Sec	thousands /sec	per sec	per sec	per sec	per sec	per sec	per sec
ecelinux3- use FreeNAS 4TB HD RAIDz array													29 sec
ecelinux3- use local-ssd	140	307	193	126	662	++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	21 sec
1Gb/s ethernet, eceLinux3-to-servNew 4 ssd RAIDz lz4	108	106	38	110	140	3.0	151	+++++	155	151	5286	162	33 sec
1Gb/s eth, ecelinux3-to-servNew-ssd-single as ZFS vol no lz4	101	99	37	109	144	2.9	178	+++++	184	176	5343	190	32 sec with lz4
1Gb/s eth, ecelinux3-to-servNew-ssd as ext4-1Gbe	98	105	35	97	102	2.5	1046	+++++	3203	1309	5936	4792	32 sec
1Gb/s ecelinux3-to-serv hybrid raid 10	108	109	50	113	140	9.4	1456	32676	2577	1424	4363	2993	23 sec
1Gb/s ethernet ecelinux3-to-servNew-tmp-directory-1Gbe - regular HD ext4	89	86	32	115	136	2.8	743	+++++	1075	608	5299	994
QDR InfiniBand, eceLinux3-to-servNew-IB 4 ssd RAIDz lz4	141	1597	847	128	2186	3.8	158	+++++	162	157	20411	167
QDR RDMA IB, eceLinux3-to-servNew-RDMA 4 ssd RAIDz	142	1968	1042	129	3456	4.0	167	+++++	169	165	24618	172	37 sec
On the server eceServ-RAID10x6-hybridSSD-HD (128G blocks)	188	357	178	167	413	2.3	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++	+++++
On the server (128G blocks), eceserv-new.uwaterloo.ca	175	666	538	168	2596	+++++	24567	+++++	25537	21229	+++++	29492
ecelinux3-to-servNew-ssd-zfs-rdma kernel-3.10.0-327.28.3.el7.x86_64	142	2012	1114	130	3225	6.6	351	+++++	338	319	25725	350	27 sec
ecelinux3-to-servNew-home-zfs-rdma kernel-3.10.0-327.28.3.el7.x86_64	143	1877	1167	128	3263	6.4	318	+++++	311	298	25953	318	28 sec



Tests - Dec 2016 - ZFSonLinux server setup using ashift=12 4 x 1TB Samsung SSDs
eceLinux1 to eceServ1 using QDR RDMA
  read : io=12015MB, bw=410086KB/s, iops=6407, runt= 30001msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=213, avg=10.07, stdev= 6.41
    clat (usec): min=411, max=2666, avg=1210.97, stdev=193.85
     lat (usec): min=489, max=2673, avg=1221.10, stdev=193.78
   READ: io=48062MB, aggrb=1602.2MB/s, minb=409912KB/s, maxb=410318KB/s, mint=30000msec, maxt=30001msec

Test #2
  read : io=12083MB, bw=412404KB/s, iops=6443, runt= 30001msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=944, avg= 9.95, stdev= 6.71
    clat (usec): min=377, max=3887, avg=1204.72, stdev=200.28
     lat (usec): min=391, max=3897, avg=1214.72, stdev=200.27
   READ: io=48335MB, aggrb=1611.1MB/s, minb=412280KB/s, maxb=412607KB/s, mint=30001msec, maxt=30001msec




older fio tests - 1Gb/s bandwidth to both servers is the same speed (same switch & router - so duhh)

fio test to eceServ-new ssd setup as ZFS with lz4
read : io=841024KB, bw=28026KB/s, iops=437, runt= 30009msec
    slat (usec): min=9, max=167, avg=64.01, stdev=19.53
    clat (msec): min=1, max=38, avg=18.00, stdev= 2.80
     lat (msec): min=1, max=38, avg=18.06, stdev= 2.81

fio test to eceServ-new ssd setup as ZFS with lz4 using RDMA
read : io=18999MB, bw=648478KB/s, iops=10132, runt= 30001msec
    slat (usec): min=7, max=249, avg=11.05, stdev= 2.03
    clat (usec): min=149, max=10420, avg=742.97, stdev=192.64
     lat (usec): min=163, max=10430, avg=754.14, stdev=192.78

fio test to eceServ hybrid RAID 10 array
read : io=844160KB, bw=28131KB/s, iops=439, runt= 30008msec
    slat (usec): min=10, max=356, avg=68.07, stdev=19.51
    clat (msec): min=4, max=30, avg=17.79, stdev= 2.02
     lat (msec): min=4, max=30, avg=17.86, stdev= 2.02

fio test to FreeNAS backup server using 4TB HDs in RAIDz
  read : io=750464KB, bw=25000KB/s, iops=390, runt= 30019msec
    slat (usec): min=11, max=238, avg=65.48, stdev=19.84
    clat (msec): min=5, max=37, avg=19.97, stdev= 2.58
     lat (msec): min=5, max=37, avg=20.04, stdev= 2.58

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 143043  99 1876643  53 1167472  56 127623  99 3263335  62  6431   8
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   318   3 +++++ +++   311   2   298   3 25953  39   318   1
ecelinux3-to-servNew-home-zfs-rdma new kernel,63776M,143043,99,1876643,53,1167472,56,127623,99,3263335,62,6431.5,8,16,318,3,+++++,+++,311,2,298,3,25953,39,318,1

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 142080  99 2011716  57 1114007  56 129575  99 3224767  61  6573   9
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   351   4 +++++ +++   338   2   319   3 25725  41   350   2
ecelinux3-to-servNew-ssd-zfs-rdma new kernel,63776M,142080,99,2011716,57,1114007,56,129575,99,3224767,61,6573.3,9,16,351,4,+++++,+++,338,2,319,3,25725,41,350,2


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 140262  99 307274  15 192950  17 125994  99 662069  29 +++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
ecelinux3-to-local-ssd,63776M,140262,99,307274,15,192950,17,125994,99,662069,29,+++++,+++,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 100736  74 99212   4 37053   4 108801  87 143548   6  2880   7
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   178   1 +++++ +++   184   1   176   1  5343  16   190   0
ecelinux3-to-servNew-ssd-single-as-ZFSvol-1Gbe,63776M,100736,74,99212,4,37053,4,108801,87,143548,6,2879.7,7,16,178,1,+++++,+++,184,1,176,1,5343,16,190,0

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 98328  74 105344   5 34592   3 96947  80 101594   4  2519   4
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1046   9 +++++ +++  3203  14  1309  12  5936  17  4792  17
SSD as ext4 partition ecelinux3-to-servNew-ssd-ext4-1Gbe,63776M,98328,74,105344,5,34592,3,96947,80,101594,4,2519.2,4,16,1046,9,+++++,+++,3203,14,1309,12,5936,17,4792,17

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 89070  67 86473   4 31980   3 114609  90 135646   6  2821   4
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   743   6 +++++ +++  1075   6   608   6  5299  16   994   5
ecelinux3-to-servNew-tmp-directory-1Gbe,63776M,89070,67,86473,4,31980,3,114609,90,135646,6,2821.0,4,16,743,6,+++++,+++,1075,6,608,6,5299,16,994,5


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceServ-RAI 128448M 188410  99 356675  13 177819  12 167380  89 412860  18  2257   4
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
eceServ-RAID10x6-hybridSSD-HD,128448M,188410,99,356675,13,177819,12,167380,89,412860,18,2256.7,4,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux3-to 63776M 107629  79 106149   5 38316   4 109592  87 140060   6  2973   6
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   151   1 +++++ +++   155   1   151   1  5286  16   162   0
eceLinux3-to-servNew,63776M,107629,79,106149,5,38316,4,109592,87,140060,6,2973.0,6,16,151,1,+++++,+++,155,1,151,1,5286,16,162,0

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux3-to 63776M 142215  99 1967963  54 1042398  50 128675  99 3455573  66  4030   5
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   167   1 +++++ +++   169   1   165   1 24618  39   172   0
eceLinux3-to-servNew-RDMA,63776M,142215,99,1967963,54,1042398,50,128675,99,3455573,66,4029.8,5,16,167,1,+++++,+++,169,1,165,1,24618,39,172,0

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux3-to 63776M 140834  99 1596642  57 846652  45 128086  99 2186268  45  3776   5
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   158   2 +++++ +++   162   1   157   2 20411  40   167   1
eceLinux3-to-servNew-IB,63776M,140834,99,1596642,57,846652,45,128086,99,2186268,45,3776.0,5,16,158,2,+++++,+++,162,1,157,2,20411,40,167,1

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceserv-new 128168M 175209  98 666440  97 538202  94 167666  98 2596462  87 +++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 24567  99 +++++ +++ 25537  99 21229 100 +++++ +++ 29492 100
eceserv-new.uwaterloo.ca,128168M,175209,98,666440,97,538202,94,167666,98,2596462,87,+++++,+++,16,24567,99,+++++,+++,25537,99,21229,100,+++++,+++,29492,100

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecelinux3-to 63776M 107826  79 108519   5 49646   5 113269  89 139719   6  9374  13
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1456  11 32676  14  2577  12  1424  11  4363  14  2993  12
ecelinux3-to-serv,63776M,107826,79,108519,5,49646,5,113269,89,139719,6,9374.2,13,16,1456,11,32676,14,2577,12,1424,11,4363,14,2993,12

Table of all data

Server	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks		Sequential Create							Random Create
Server	Size	Per Char		Per Block		Rewrite		Per Chr		Block		Random Seeks		Files	Create		Read		Delete		Create		Read		Delete
		K/sec	%CP	K/sec	%CP	K/Sec	%CP	K/sec	%CP	K/Sec	%CP	/sec	%CP		per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP	per sec	%CP
eceServBoot RAID0 600G SAS and 500G 7200rpm - Nov2014	63704M	82065	80	73747	9	38839	6	97081	92	197248	22	761.3	5	16
eceServ Home 6xSAS 15k rpm RAID 10 - Nov2014	63704M	103424	98	561295	52	179538	28	100067	96	463026	54	1559.6	10	16
eceServ RAID10 3 x SSD 3xVelociraptor - Dec 2014	63704M	104797	99	554304	55	217355	36	107862	98	529560	65	2390.3	15	16
eceServHome-1SSD - Nov 2014	63704M	102237	98	551985	52	194237	29	102676	97	518187	62	2003.3	13	16
ecewo3 SSDx1 - Nov2014	62G	53191	85	109845	23	82854	13	63523	96	543786	58
ecewo32SSD	31976M	58493	81	60873	20	31223	21	57524	90	77272	15	189.3	1	16
ecewo3-WOdb-NFS-share - Nov2014	62G	55190	97	59859	9	22796	5	39248	56	75772	7	2865.9	14	16	1016	9	22628	31	884	9	853	9	3555	15	628	5
eceLinux3-NFS-serv - Nov2014	63840M	45897	75	46221	5	29728	7	61443	98	71283	8	846.0	3	16	371	2	765	3	375	2	360	2	776	2	393	2
eceLinux2-NFS-ServSSDs - Dec 2014	63840M	79281	95	94125	7	46257	10	83142	99	108043	12	1942.7	7	16	1111	3	2548	7	1153	4	1107	6	2769	6	1369	4
eceLinux3-NFS-serv	63840M	78349	94	93492	7	45249	10	83076	99	110195	12	1279.5	5	16	1122	4	2531	6	1143	4	1098	6	2795	6	1366	3
eceLinux3-NFS-Serv-1SSD	63840M	61707	94	97820	9	44910	10	62830	99	104103	10	1606.1	7	16	911	3	1911	4	933	1	910	4	2074	20	1019	1
eceLinux5-NFS-ServSSDs - Dec 2014	63G	93304	79	95393	12	45286	15	104008	95	108949	22	1949.4	4	16	1146	3	2577	4	1182	4	1142	4	2782	3	1428	2
eceLinux5-NFS-serv	63G	87956	86	88906	14	42920	13	98124	94	103878	17	1288.9	6	16	1106	4	2569	3	1145	3	1088	4	2791	4	1361	3
eceLinux5-NFS-serv1SSD	63G	85018	88	88658	15	43126	13	99133	99	105891	18	1625.2	6	16	1099	5	2572	5	1113	5	962	5	2772	3	1265	3
eceLinux4-NFS-ServSSDs - Dec 2014	15G	76250	86	105731	8	52504	14	84011	99	145489	15	6006.4	26	16	851	8	14091	24	1004	7	858	8	2361	9	1004	7
eceLinux4-NFS-serv	15G	79807	89	96881	7	50348	14	80505	99	144033	15	4901.9	23	16	866	7	13994	17	1003	7	879	7	2338	9	1000	7
eceLinux4-NFS-Serv-1SSD	15G	76019	87	88916	7	50145	14	83809	98	131553	16	4608.5	22	16	863	7	14247	17	1000	8	871	8	2316	11	996	8

Tests of InfiniBand using ConnectX-2 cards directly connecting 2 computers.

fio --rw=randread --bs=64k --numjobs=4 --iodepth=8 --runtime=30 --time_based --loops=1 --ioengine=libaio --direct=1 --invalidate=1 --fsync_on_close=1 --randrepeat=1 --norandommap --exitall --name task1 --filename=/testing/junk/1.txt --size=10000000


Testing local file system (7200 rpm HD)
   READ: io=8899.3MB, aggrb=303 680KB/s, minb=75 866KB/s, maxb=76014KB/s, mint=30003msec, maxt=30008msec
     or 8.9GB, 304MB/s, 75.9 MB/s, 6.7ms lat, 1187 iops
  read : io=2227.6MB, bw=76014KB/s, iops=1187, runt= 30007msec
    slat (usec): min=2, max=227, avg= 6.72, stdev= 7.00
    clat (usec): min=224, max=100657, avg=6680.40, stdev=2089.69
     lat (usec): min=229, max=100720, avg=6687.19, stdev=2090.73

NFS over RDMA to a striped pair of SSDs
   READ: io=94053MB, aggrb=3134.2MB/s, minb=802537KB/s, maxb=802575KB/s, mint=30001msec, maxt=30001msec
or 94G, 3.1G/s, 803MB/s, lat 614us, 12539 iops
  read : io=23513MB, bw=802538KB/s, iops=12539, runt= 30001msec
    slat (usec): min=3, max=1146, avg= 7.57, stdev= 3.28
    clat (usec): min=79, max=1876, avg=606.19, stdev=90.78
     lat (usec): min=92, max=2045, avg=613.80, stdev=90.77


NFS mount with QDR ConnectX-2 cards: USING NFSoRDMA!!
   READ: io=94050MB, aggrb=3134.1MB/s, minb=802 245KB/s, maxb=803017KB/s, mint=30001msec, maxt=30001msec
  or 94GB, 3.1GB/s, 802MB/s, 615us, 12535 iops   
  read : io=23504MB, bw=802245KB/s, iops=12535, runt= 30001msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=474, avg= 7.43, stdev= 1.85
    clat (usec): min=72, max=8837, avg=607.94, stdev=113.73
     lat (usec): min=81, max=8848, avg=615.40, stdev=113.59


NFS mounted via RDMA using SDR or 10Gb/s with InfiniHost III cards
   READ: io=22319MB, aggrb=761758KB/s, minb=190363KB/s, maxb=190654KB/s, mint=30002msec, maxt=30003msec
or 762MB/s, 190MB/s, 2.57ms lat, 2978 iops
  read : io=5586.2MB, bw=190654KB/s, iops=2978, runt= 30003msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=835, avg= 7.00, stdev= 3.83
    clat (usec): min=328, max=8411, avg=2559.16, stdev=486.51
     lat (usec): min=336, max=8418, avg=2566.22, stdev=486.45

NFS mounted via RDMA using DDR or 20Gb/s with InfiniHost III cards
   READ: io=24430MB, aggrb=833785KB/s, minb=208410KB/s, maxb=208492KB/s, mint=30001msec, maxt=30003msec
  or 24.4G, 834MB/s, 208MB/s, 2.4ms, 3256 iops
  read : io=6107.2MB, bw=208436KB/s, iops=3256, runt= 30003msec
    slat (usec): min=3, max=617, avg= 7.00, stdev= 3.50
    clat (usec): min=684, max=6448, avg=2355.94, stdev=296.73
     lat (usec): min=695, max=6454, avg=2362.98, stdev=296.70


NFS mount over QDR ConnectX-2 cards:  NFSoIB
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
   READ: io=15 707MB, aggrb=536 085KB/s, minb=133 964KB/s, maxb=134 139KB/s
    or 15.7GB,  536MB/s, 134MB/s

Testing with DDR InfiniHost III cards connected by SDR switch
   READ: io=13 788MB, aggrb=470 564KB/s, minb=117 607KB/s, maxb=117 725KB/s, mint=30004msec, maxt=30005msec
     or 13.8GB, 470MB/s, 117MB/s, 4.2ms, 1840 iops   DDR at SDR speed
read : io=3449.5MB, bw=117725KB/s, iops=1839, runt= 30004msec
    slat (usec): min=3, max=861, avg=11.37, stdev= 8.48
    clat (usec): min=244, max=9225, avg=4154, stdev=896
     lat (usec): min=261, max=9237, avg=4165, stdev=897

Testing DDR InfiniHost III connected directly
rate:            20 Gb/sec (4X DDR)
READ: io=13854MB, aggrb=472819KB/s, minb=118104KB/s, maxb=118301KB/s, mint=30003msec, maxt=30005msec
  or 13.9GB, 473GB/s, 118MB/s, lat 4.1ms, 1845iops   DDR
read : io=3460.6MB, bw=118105KB/s, iops=1845, runt= 30004msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=1294, avg=11.57, stdev=11.96
    clat (usec): min=1204, max=9557, avg=4131.76, stdev=750.82
     lat (usec): min=1361, max=9566, avg=4143.40, stdev=751.04

fio done on the local file system to 7200 rpm HD
   READ: io=8626.6MB, aggrb=294382KB/s, minb=73340KB/s, maxb=74071KB/s, mint=30002msec, maxt=30007msec
  read : io=2156.2MB, bw=73579KB/s, iops=1149, runt= 30007msec
    slat (usec): min=3, max=5737, avg=11.90, stdev=32.52
    clat (usec): min=423, max=173382, avg=6898.98, stdev=3536.77
     lat (usec): min=435, max=173416, avg=6911.03, stdev=3536.91

fio done over QDR IB
   READ: io=16 636MB, aggrb=567778KB/s, minb=141899KB/s, maxb=141999KB/s, mint=30002msec, maxt=30003msec
     or 16.7GB, 568 MB/s, 142MB/s, 3.4ms lat, 2218 iops QDR
  read : io=4160.6MB, bw=142000KB/s, iops=2218, runt= 30003msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=1216, avg=11.92, stdev=11.06
    clat (usec): min=56, max=170945, avg=3433.91, stdev=2056.65
     lat (usec): min=266, max=171043, avg=3445.91, stdev=2058.37

Testing with 1Gb ethernet between machines
   READ: io=3 289.7MB, aggrb=112 210KB/s, minb=28 048KB/s, maxb=28067KB/s, mint=30003msec, maxt=30015msec
     or 3.2GB, 112MB/s, 28MB/s, 17.8ms, 438 iops   1Gb eth
 read : io=842048KB, bw=28058KB/s, iops=438, runt= 30011msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=73, avg=16.43, stdev= 4.73
    clat (usec): min=795, max=36337, avg=17793, stdev=3057
     lat (usec): min=805, max=36346, avg=17809, stdev=3057

Testing between eceLinux1 and FreeNAS server at 10Gb/s
READ: io=5944.7MB, aggrb=202 823KB/s, minb=50 662KB/s, maxb=50754KB/s, mint=30007msec, maxt=30010msec
  or 5.9G, 202MB/s, 51MB/s, 9.7ms, 793 iops 10Gb/s eth
 read : io=1487.5MB, bw=50754KB/s, iops=793, runt= 30010msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=184, avg=15.30, stdev= 5.81
    clat (usec): min=383, max=56617, avg=9636.57, stdev=3464.32
     lat (usec): min=394, max=56628, avg=9652.00, stdev=3465.27

Testing eceLinux1 (10Gb/s) to eceServ (1Gb/s, hybrid SSD & 10k rpm striped FS)
 READ: io=3348.6MB, aggrb=114226KB/s, minb=28473KB/s, maxb=28606KB/s, mint=30011msec, maxt=30018msec
  or 3.3G, 114MB/s, 28.5MB/s
read : io=857536KB, bw=28574KB/s, iops=446, runt= 30011msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=106, avg=19.05, stdev= 3.49
    clat (msec): min=4, max=29, avg=17.31, stdev= 2.47
     lat (msec): min=4, max=29, avg=17.33, stdev= 2.47

NFS mount over 100Mb connection
Run status group 0 (all jobs):
   READ: io=345 728KB, aggrb=11 457KB/s, minb=2 855KB/s, maxb=2 888KB/s
    or  346MB, 11MB/s, 2.86 MB/s, 2.89MB/s  100Mb eth

   READ: io=345792KB, aggrb=11458KB/s, minb=2858KB/s, maxb=2888KB/s, mint=30110msec, maxt=30177msec
    or 346M, 11.5MB/s, 2.28MB/s, lat 174 ms, 45 iops
  read : io=86976KB, bw=2888.7KB/s, iops=45, runt= 30110msec
    slat (usec): min=19, max=148, avg=95.14, stdev=20.98
    clat (msec): min=7, max=347, avg=173.71, stdev=37.16
     lat (msec): min=7, max=347, avg=173.81, stdev=37.17


100Mb/s ethernet with a very old switch
   READ: io=345984KB, aggrb=11465KB/s, minb=2854KB/s, maxb=2886KB/s, mint=30099msec, maxt=30177msec
  or 35M, 11.5Mb/s, 2.9MB/s, lat 176ms, 44 iops
  read : io=86272KB, bw=2859.5KB/s, iops=44, runt= 30171msec
    slat (usec): min=4, max=127, avg=11.99, stdev= 8.19
    clat (msec): min=50, max=334, avg=176.25, stdev=21.05
     lat (msec): min=50, max=334, avg=176.26, stdev=21.05
   

10Mb/s ethernet via switch downgraded to 10Mb/s per port
   READ: io=36416KB, aggrb=1145KB/s, minb=279KB/s, maxb=303KB/s, mint=30830msec, maxt=31778msec
   or 36MB, 1.2MB/s, 279kB/s, 1.80s, 4 iops
  read : io=8896.0KB, bw=286660B/s, iops=4, runt= 31778msec
    slat (usec): min=37, max=146, avg=102.63, stdev=15.05
    clat (msec): min=948, max=3460, avg=1796.61, stdev=313.59
     lat (msec): min=948, max=3460, avg=1796.72, stdev=313.59

   
NFS over 10Mb/s ethernet using a HUB !!
   READ: io=33152KB, aggrb=1041KB/s, minb=253KB/s, maxb=284KB/s, mint=30598msec, maxt=31821msec
     or 33MB, 1.0MB/s, 260kB/s, 1.9s latency, 4 iops
  read : io=8192.0KB, bw=266423B/s, iops=4, runt= 31486msec
    slat (usec): min=55, max=205, avg=105.20, stdev=18.38
    clat (msec): min=767, max=2647, avg=1920.61, stdev=227.36
     lat (msec): min=767, max=2647, avg=1920.72, stdev=227.36

Updated Test - eceServ still 3 x SSD RAID 10 with 3 x 10k RPM Velociraptors but now i3 on SuperMicro with 64G
  and IB ConnectX-2 to clients
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux2-t 128304M 148413  75 86777   5 136715  14 185525  99 612089  39  2773  13
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  9577  10 +++++ +++ 15481  11  8249  10 +++++ +++ 12548  13
eceLinux2-to-i3-raid10-ssd-10krpm-Serv-NFSoRDMA,128304M,148413,75,86777,5,136715,14,185525,99,612089,39,2772.8,13,16,9577,10,+++++,+++,15481,11,8249,10,+++++,+++,12548,13

Updated Test - eceServ still 3 x SSD RAID 10 with 3 x 10k RPM Velociraptors but now i3 on SuperMicro with 64G
  and IB InfiniHost III to i7 client
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux1-I 128304M 157857  79 105521   6 136272  12 183754  99 608778  17  3117  11
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  3348   5 +++++ +++  5620   5  3574   6 20763   9  6845   6
eceLinux1-InfiniHost-to-i3-raid10-ssd-10krpm-Serv-NFSoRDMA,128304M,157857,79,105521,6,136272,12,183754,99,608778,17,3117.1,11,16,3348,5,+++++,+++,5620,5,3574,6,20763,9,6845,6


First test - IB connection, NFSoIB - not via RDMA - to a 7200 rpm HD

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
QDR-IB-NFS  128128M 80589  54 73291   7 40351   7 97960  61 113744   8 140.2   0
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   115   2 +++++ +++   115   1   113   2 +++++ +++   114   1
QDR-IB-NFS,128128M,80589,54,73291,7,40351,7,97960,61,113744,8,140.2,0,16,115,2,+++++,+++,115,1,113,2,+++++,+++,114,1

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
IB-QDR-NFSo 128128M 183721  98 505062  33 251227  24 175136  99 704626  45  9183  45
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 10997  15 +++++ +++ 17611  18 10897  18 +++++ +++ 28937  17
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-ssd,128128M,183721,98,505062,33,251227,24,175136,99,704626,45,9183.0,45,16,10997,15,+++++,+++,17611,18,10897,18,+++++,+++,28937,17

NFSoRDMA to a CentOS 7 using ZFS with RAIDz using 3 x 250G SSDs using InfiniHost III cards
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
IB-DDR-NFSo 128128M 184130  99 681531  38 334695  35 173072  99 993987  29  5214  10
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1756   6 +++++ +++  1462  11  1797   6 19544  10  1549  11
IB-DDR-NFSoRDMA-to-RAIDz-3-ssd,128128M,184130,99,681531,38,334695,35,173072,99,993987,29,5214.1,10,16,1756,6,+++++,+++,1462,11,1797,6,19544,10,1549,11


NFSoRDMA to a CentOS 7 using ZFS with RAIDz using 3 x 250G SSDs using QDR ConnectX-2 cards
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
IB-QDR-NFSo 128128M 184594  99 688436  37 339845  34 175052  99 1018267  46  4801  25
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1351  19 +++++ +++  1237  17  1354  15 +++++ +++  1436  15
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-RAIDz-3-ssd,128128M,184594,99,688436,37,339845,34,175052,99,1018267,46,4801.2,25,16,1351,19,+++++,+++,1237,17,1354,15,+++++,+++,1436,15

Test RAIDz - 3 ssd file system on the server
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ZFS-RAIDz-3-ssd 23G 126824  99 766040  79 352183  53 111284  99 815423  41  5484  18
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ 29821  99 +++++ +++ +++++ +++
ZFS-RAIDz-3-ssds-on-server,23G,126824,99,766040,79,352183,53,111284,99,815423,41,5484.1,18,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,29821,99,+++++,+++,+++++,+++

btrfs of 3 ssds in raid 1 on the file server
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
btrfs-3-ssds-on 23G 123233  99 416982  14 170231  14 109029  98 427480  16 +++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
btrfs-3-ssds-on-server,23G,123233,99,416982,14,170231,14,109029,98,427480,16,+++++,+++,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++

BTRFS with 3 SSDs in RAID 1 on the file server, tested from the client over QDR IB NFSoRDMA
  NOTE - the server crashed the first time I tried this test.  In the past my experience with BTRFS was that it wasn't yet stable
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
IB-QDR-NFSo 128128M 182386  96 368255  26 205813  24 174850  99 532123  34  6633  32
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 14425  16 +++++ +++ 21168  14 14811  17 +++++ +++ 20127  12
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-BTRfs-3-ssd,128128M,182386,96,368255,26,205813,24,174850,99,532123,34,6632.5,32,16,14425,16,+++++,+++,21168,14,14811,17,+++++,+++,20127,12


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
QDR-IB-NFS- 128128M 185401  98 507588  31 241786  17 168968  99 702065  22 12098  18
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  6631  15 +++++ +++  9521  20  6466  18 +++++ +++ 21849  18
QDR-IB-NFS-to-ssd,128128M,185401,98,507588,31,241786,17,168968,99,702065,22,12098.4,18,16,6631,15,+++++,+++,9521,20,6466,18,+++++,+++,21849,18

Test SSD on the server with Bonnie++
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
SSD-speed-on-se 23G 116827  98 551325  35 240756  22 110494  99 666847  28 +++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
SSD-speed-on-server,23G,116827,98,551325,35,240756,22,110494,99,666847,28,+++++,+++,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
IB-QDR-NFSo 128128M 187368  99 592361  36 326021  21 176537  99 1081013  56  9373  38
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 14954  16 +++++ +++ 20493  17 14270  17 +++++ +++ 28693  16
IB-QDR-NFSoRDMA-to-2-striped-ssd,128128M,187368,99,592361,36,326021,21,176537,99,1081013,56,9373.2,38,16,14954,16,+++++,+++,20493,17,14270,17,+++++,+++,28693,16

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
SSD-speed-on-se 23G 119803  99 680627  39 301202  25 111599  98 873434  23 +++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
striped-2-SSDs-speed-on-server,23G,119803,99,680627,39,301202,25,111599,98,873434,23,+++++,+++,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
NFS1gB-to-s 128128M 111587  59 114273   2 88361   3 123485  71 147153   2  7350   8
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1855   8 +++++ +++  4340   5  1975   7  2327  10  5243   3
NFS1gB-to-ssd,128128M,111587,59,114273,2,88361,3,123485,71,147153,2,7349.8,8,16,1855,8,+++++,+++,4340,5,1975,7,2327,10,5243,3

InfiniHost III HBAs connected with a SDR switch
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
IB-SDR-to-s 128128M 172504  98 372110  15 205330  14 158240  99 702011  23  8276  33
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  4580  14 +++++ +++  8401  17  4461  16 +++++ +++ 19318  14
IB-SDR-to-ssd,128128M,172504,98,372110,15,205330,14,158240,99,702011,23,8275.7,33,16,4580,14,+++++,+++,8401,17,4461,16,+++++,+++,19318,14


This was testing local HD on the client machine?? NFS connection lost???
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
NFS1gB-to-s 128128M 93253  52 78956   3 39927   2 104771  61 126355   3 146.6   0
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   116   2 32004  28   115   1   114   2  2241  23   115   1
NFS1gB-to-ssd,128128M,93253,52,78956,3,39927,2,104771,61,126355,3,146.6,0,16,116,2,32004,28,115,1,114,2,2241,23,115,1


OLD

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux3-NF 63840M 61707  94 97820   9 44910  10 62830  99 104103  10  1606   7
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   911   3  1911   4   933   1   910   4  2074  20  1019   1
eceLinux3-NFS-Serv-1SSD,63840M,61707,94,97820,9,44910,10,62830,99,104103,10,1606.1,7,16,911,3,1911,4,933,1,910,4,2074,20,1019,1


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux4-NFS-S 15G 76019  87 88916   7 50145  14 83809  98 131553  16  4608  22
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   863   7 14247  17  1000   8   871   8  2316  11   996   8
eceLinux4-NFS-Serv-1SSD,15G,76019,87,88916,7,50145,14,83809,98,131553,16,4608.5,22,16,863,7,14247,17,1000,8,871,8,2316,11,996,8

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux4-NFS-s 15G 79807  89 96881   7 50348  14 80505  99 144033  15  4902  23
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   866   7 13994  17  1003   7   879   7  2338   9  1000   7
eceLinux4-NFS-serv,15G,79807,89,96881,7,50348,14,80505,99,144033,15,4901.9,23,16,866,7,13994,17,1003,7,879,7,2338,9,1000,7

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux3-NF 63840M 78349  94 93492   7 45249  10 83076  99 110195  12  1279   5
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1122   4  2531   6  1143   4  1098   6  2795   6  1366   3
eceLinux3-NFS-serv,63840M,78349,94,93492,7,45249,10,83076,99,110195,12,1279.5,5,16,1122,4,2531,6,1143,4,1098,6,2795,6,1366,3

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux5-NFS-s 63G 87956  86 88906  14 42920  13 98124  94 103878  17  1289   6
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1106   4  2569   3  1145   3  1088   4  2791   4  1361   3
eceLinux5-NFS-serv,63G,87956,86,88906,14,42920,13,98124,94,103878,17,1288.9,6,16,1106,4,2569,3,1145,3,1088,4,2791,4,1361,3


Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecewo32SSD   31976M 58493  81 60873  20 31223  21 57524  90 77272  15 189.3   1
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
ecewo32SSD,31976M,58493,81,60873,20,31223,21,57524,90,77272,15,189.3,1,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++


ECEServ++ -m eceServBoot -d /tmp -u root
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceServBoot  63704M 82065  80 73747   9 38839   6 97081  92 197248  22 761.3   5
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
eceServBoot,63704M,82065,80,73747,9,38839,6,97081,92,197248,22,761.3,5,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++

ECEServ ./bonnie++ -m eceServBoot -d /home/sysadmin/junk -u root
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceServBoot  63704M 103424  98 561295  52 179538  28 100067  96 463026  54  1560  10
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
eceServBoot,63704M,103424,98,561295,52,179538,28,100067,96,463026,54,1559.6,10,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++


eceWO3 - Adaptec 6805e RAID  840 EVO 250G 6GB/sec and WD10EADS-65M2B0 3GB/sec in RAID mirror
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecewo3          62G 53191  85 109845  23 82854  13 63523  96 543786  58 +++++ +++
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16 +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++ +++++ +++
ecewo3,62G,53191,85,109845,23,82854,13,63523,96,543786,58,+++++,+++,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
ecewo3-WOdb-NFS 62G 55190  97 59859   9 22796   5 39248  56 75772   7  2866  14
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1016   9 22628  31   884   9   853   9  3555  15   628   5
ecewo3-WOdb-NFS-share,62G,55190,97,59859,9,22796,5,39248,56,75772,7,2865.9,14,16,1016,9,22628,31,884,9,853,9,3555,15,628,5

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
eceLinux3-NF 63840M 45897  75 46221   5 29728   7 61443  98 71283   8 846.0   3
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   371   2   765   3   375   2   360   2   776   2   393   2
eceLinux3-NFS-serv,63840M,45897,75,46221,5,29728,7,61443,98,71283,8,846.0,3,16,371,2,765,3,375,2,360,2,776,2,393,2

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
SuperM Cent 128168M 182710  99 1061873  29 311626  15 164701  97 331800   8  3547   7
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  6027  11 +++++ +++  6181  12  6127  12 +++++ +++ 11102   9
SuperMicro FreeNAS 10Gbe with 4x 1TB SSD to SuperMicro 10Gbe CentOS 7,128168M,182710,99,1061873,29,311626,15,164701,97,331800,8,3547.2,7,16,6027,11,+++++,+++,6181,12,6127,12,+++++,+++,11102,9

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
Linux12i7-t 128168M 11464   7 10016   0  7156   0 14406   8 14368   0  1745   3
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1095   0 28088   0  1638   0  1362   0  4419  36  2329   0
Linux12i7-to-FreeNAS-SSD-at1Gb,128168M,11464,7,10016,0,7156,0,14406,8,14368,0,1745.3,3,16,1095,0,28088,0,1638,0,1362,0,4419,36,2329,0

Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
Linux12i7-t 128168M 11468  14 11467   1  6901   1 12404  24 13175   1  1070   6
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16   493  11 17779   9   677   9   499  12  1042  32  1005   0
Linux12i7-to-FreeNAS-SSD-at100Mb,128168M,11468,14,11467,1,6901,1,12404,24,13175,1,1070.0,6,16,493,11,17779,9,677,9,499,12,1042,32,1005,0


March 13, 2016 - AMD 8 core to eceServ with RAID 10 over 1Gb/s
Version 1.03e       ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random-
                    -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks--
Machine        Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP  /sec %CP
Linux3AMD-to 63840M 63975  96 96058   7 45568  10 65800  99 100507  10  1960   7
                    ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create--------
                    -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete--
              files  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP  /sec %CP
                 16  1113   3  2531   6  1142   6  1106   4  2792   5  1382   5
Linux3AMD-to-eceSERV-SSD,63840M,63975,96,96058,7,45568,10,65800,99,100507,10,1960.0,7,16,1113,3,2531,6,1142,6,1106,4,2792,5,1382,5

Hard Drive Performance Tests - May 2014

Using Bonnie++ (http://www.coker.com.au/bonnie++/ ) I've tested the performance of various systems.

./configure ./make ./bonnie++ -m ServerName -d /tmp -u regular_user

CP is CPU Usage stats

The tests are seqential file creation, sequentially delete files, create files in random order.

Server	Size	Sequential Output						Sequential Input				Random Seeks
Server	Size	Per Char K/sec	%CP	Per Block K/sec	%CP	Rewrite K/Sec	%CP	Per Chr K/sec	%CP	Block	%CP	Random Seeks /sec	%CP	Files
woDB SSD RAID-1 - May2014	32112M	68625	99	255517	62	116224	22	75361	98	270482	19	+++++	+++	16
woDB - May2014	32112M	69039	99	260258	63	118080	22	75692	98	261735	18	+++++	+++	16
ieee - May2014	15G	89242	98	84128	13	42106	12	77584	83	193194	25	514.0	3	16
ieee 15k SAS RAID-1 - May2014	15G	94683	99	154531	22	63067	18	87611	91	171622	25	588.8	4	16
Arbeau 300G RAID-1 10k rpm - May2014	15G	80732	84	78604	8	39446	10	77845	79	112135	11	500.5	2	16
arbeau-1SSD	31G	77683	97	108299	14	53168	13	75634	92	219774	24	5804.9	22	16
Serv - May2014	63704M	81685	80	73558	10	39226	7	91200	87	163871	19	701.7	5	16
eceLinux1 - May2014	63840M	48923	62	69092	15	31357	8	69075	91	74402	8	209.7	0	16
Home CPU xUbuntu 500G HDD M4A785 MB - Dec2014	31968M	75112	94	82801	16	32684	9	74429	89	96816	15	160.0	1	16
Admin - May2014	15464M	47699	74	66472	22	29934	10	64674	84	70348	11	285.0	1	16
System - May2014	6576M	50305	72	53666	10	24860	16	37116	63	72527	14	4544.5	35	16
System WD 1TB Green - May2014	6576M	53832	74	44700	11	20513	12	45640	66	48859	10	213.8	1	16	30828	99
System 40G PATA + SSD - May2014	6576M	52834	71	57261	14	26660	15	41495	66	71863	15	4552.5	35	16
System 40G PATA (SSD stayed in array!) - May2014	6576M	53226	72	54672	12	32294	20	49952	73	71521	14	4988.3	33	16
Linux4 - May2014	15G	77727	90	77773	9	34234	9	77477	86	114513	13	422.1	2	16
Web - May2014	15464M	70110	96	122212	20	43551	12	67269	80	97098	13	663.2	3	16
eceWebSSD - Nov 2014	39G	76712	96	128349	21	57215	14	84070	86	229732	32	5445.0	27	16
Mail - May2014	31G	67163	92	90264	23	37505	13	68759	76	111940	15	284.2	1	16
Home M4A785 500G WD HD xUbuntu Dec 2014	31968M	75112	94	82801	16	32684	9	74429	89	96816	15	160.0	1	16

System	Bonnie++ Results

Arbeau, one SSD in parallel with Velocraptor	Version 1.03e ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP eceLinux5-NFS-s 63G 85018 88 88658 15 43126 13 99133 99 105891 18 1625 6 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 1099 5 2572 5 1113 5 962 5 2772 3 1265 3 eceLinux5-NFS-serv1SSD,63G,85018,88,88658,15,43126,13,99133,99,105891,18,1625.2,6,16,1099,5,2572,5,1113,5,962,5,2772,3,1265,3
Arbeau, one SSD in parallel with Velocraptor	arbeau-1SSD,31G,77683,97,108299,14,53168,13,75634,92,219774,24,5804.9,22,16,
Web 3Ware raid-1 10k Velociraptor and 512M Samsung SSD	eceWebSSD,39G,76712,96,128349,21,57215,14,84070,86,229732,32,5445.0,27,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++
Serv raid-1 5xSAS HDs and 1x1TB Samsung SSD	eceServHome-1SSD,63704M,102237,98,551985,52,194237,29,102676,97,518187,62,2003.3,13,16,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++,+++++,+++
Web 3Ware raid-1 10k Velociraptor	Mail,31G,67163,92,90264,23,37505,13,68759,76,111940,15,284.2,1,16,
Web 3Ware raid-1 10k Velociraptor	Web,15464M,70110,96,122212,20,43551,12,67269,80,97098,13,663.2,3,16,
ieee 15k rpm SAS MD RAID-1	ieee,15G,94683,99,154531,22,63067,18,87611,91,171622,25,588.8,4,16
System - MD RAID-1 array 1TB WD Green drives	System,6576M,53832,74,44700,11,20513,12,45640,66,48859,10,213.8,1,16,30828,99,
Linux4 (Adaptec mirror 7200rpm SATA	Linux4,15G,77727,90,77773,9,34234,9,77477,86,114513,13,422.1,2,16,
System re-run as root	System,6576M,52834,71,57261,14,26660,15,41495,66,71863,15,4552.5,35,16,
woDB	woDB,32112M,68625,99,255517,62,116224,22,75361,98,270482,19,+++++,+++,16,
woDB re-run as root	woDB,32112M,69039,99,260258,63,118080,22,75692,98,261735,18,+++++,+++,16,
ieee, CentOS 6 MD raid with LSI raid with 2 x 300G 15k rpm SAS and 2nd MD raid member is 7200rpm SATA	Version 1.03e ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP ieee 15G 89242 98 84128 13 42106 12 77584 83 193194 25 514.0 3 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 ieee,15G,89242,98,84128,13,42106,12,77584,83,193194,25,514.0,3,16,
arbeau, CentOS 6 3Ware raid 1, 300G 10k rpm	Version 1.03e ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP Arbeau 15G 80732 84 78604 8 39446 10 77845 79 112135 11 500.5 2 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 Arbeau,15G,80732,84,78604,8,39446,10,77845,79,112135,11,500.5,2,16
Serv 15k rpm SAS 6 drives raid 10	Version 1.03e ------Sequential Output------ --Sequential Input- --Random- -Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block-- --Seeks-- Machine Size K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP /sec %CP Serv 63704M 81685 80 73558 10 39226 7 91200 87 163871 19 701.7 5 ------Sequential Create------ --------Random Create-------- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- -Create-- --Read--- -Delete-- files /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP /sec %CP 16 Serv,63704M,81685,80,73558,10,39226,7,91200,87,163871,19,701.7,5,16
Linux1, 7200rpm SATA	eceLinux1,63840M,48923,62,69092,15,31357,8,69075,91,74402,8,209.7,0,16
MD raid 160G SATA 7200 rpm	Admin,15464M,47699,74,66472,22,29934,10,64674,84,70348,11,285.0,1,16,
System - MD Raid 40G PATA without SSD?? Seems to have stayed in the array	System,6576M,53226,72,54672,12,32294,20,49952,73,71521,14,4988.3,33,16,
System, MD raid, 40G PATA drive and SSD	System,6576M,50305,72,53666,10,24860,16,37116,63,72527,14,4544.5,35,16,