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Additions to the Readme #1

Open anmolgupta1005 opened 7 years ago

anmolgupta1005 commented 7 years ago

Configurations on the windows

  1. Disable Firewall and Windows Defender
  2. Enable Remote Desktop
  3. Configure ssh server
  4. Remove unwanted applications, to reduce disk size
  5. Create a startup folder that will have all the scripts that need to run as soon as windows is logged on

Configurations on Ubuntu

  1. You have mentioned that there will be a startup script that will restore the windows image in the correct partition. I wanted to remind you, how on the AMD machines, we created an desktop application that spawned a terminal which showed the progress of dd
  2. You might want to install basic python packages on the cluster - something like numpy, scipy, scikit, matplotlib, pandas etc. We could then use the cluster for processing the data as well. (I know, ideally we want to use the SCC cluster, but this could be a safe second option)

Benchmarks on Windows 32bit Machine

  1. Futuremark benchmarks - PCmark. I have forwarded you the email chain that has all the license and the link to download it.
  2. Make sure to add as many features as possible in Visual Studio Community. There are multiple components that are individually installable for Visual Studios.
  3. VTunes for Intel and AMD Code Analyst for AMD
  4. Chrome, Firefox
  5. VLC Media player
  6. MinGW for Windows
  7. Freesshd server
  8. Github for windows
  9. Sublime, Notepad ++
  10. 7 zip
  11. JVM
  12. AOMEI Partition Assistant
  13. Microsoft Office -> BU's license here
anmolgupta1005 commented 7 years ago

I did not directly add anything to your main README. I figured you want to keep it systematic and organized and I would only mess it up. Hence this Issue. I will keep adding more issues as and when I remember more stuff.

anmolgupta1005 commented 7 years ago

Disk Partition on the Windows machine:

If you notice, after installing so many benchmarks/software, the size of the windows is going to be ridiculously large. This will increase the time to DD by a ton. So last time I came up with this alternative. You can consider it, if you like. Refer to the screenshot attached.

screen shot 2017-06-13 at 1 30 12 am

The unlabeled drive is the one where I store all the source files, files needed for installing, etc. of these benchmarks and the softwares. We do not have to re-write this with a original copy, because this will have all the 'unwanted' files. (Not the binaries. Just the files needed for installing.) We can control the permission to modify and delete to this drive.