PBS Cluster Viz / News: Recent posts

The latest version of PBS Cluster Viz has been released. The changes in this version are:

• merge of "interactive" branch with trunk
• pbsnodes file can be downloaded via ssh and viewed locally on the user's
  computer
• added a command line option to specify the ssh command if desired
• log information about overloaded/down/offline nodes now displayed
• display automatically updated
• added configuration options for pbsnodes file download, display update,
  and what to display in log information
• pop-up balloons appear with node information after pressing the 'i' key
  in interactive mode
• pop-up balloons require python-vtk 5.2+
• nodes not appearing in nodes file but which appear in pbsnodes output
  (and vice versa) are detected and mentioned in error output
• documentation update; better integration of docs with sourceforge website
• examples updated to agree with current code
• several minor bug fixes

The documentation for PBS Cluster Viz has been converted to use the Python standard documentation framework Sphinx. The new docs also generate the html for the main PBS Cluster Viz web page: http://pbsclusterviz.sf.net.

The latest version of PBS Cluster Viz is available. Changes in this version are:
- Improvement of internal structure
- gen_nodes_file works again
- Removed old, unused classes and files
- Improved and extended debugging capabilities
- Default display mode is now 'job'
- gen_nodes_file now says what it is doing instead of being silent
- Setting the display mode on the command line now works
- Documentation updated
- Colourmap changes properly between 'load' and 'job' view
- Display updates with the 'u' key now works
- The -c/--configfile command line option performs now as expected
- The nodes_file command line option now works