Re: Mathematica and Matlab on Jacquard and DaVinci

From: David Turner (dpturner_at_lbl.gov)
Date: 10/18/2007


Greetings NERSC User,

Last week I wrote:

> Due to a recently-discovered security concern with the X11 font server,
> we have changed the default versions of Mathematica and Matlab to use
> the "nofonts" module.  Once we have received and installed security
> patches from the vendors, we will return both packages to their full
> font versions.

Mathematica and Matlab are now available with full font support on
Jacquard and DaVinci.  Note that DaVinci is utilizing the Jacquard
font server until we can get a patched server from SGI.  If you
encounter any problems with either of these two packages, please
write to consult@nersc.gov.

-- 
Best regards,

David Turner
User Services Group        email: dpturner@lbl.gov
NERSC Division             phone: (510) 486-4027
Lawrence Berkeley Lab        fax: (510) 486-4316

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