August 2018

Computing
APNG Animation using APNG Assembler (CUI)

GIF animation has been popular since long ago, but in recent years APNG animation (Animation consisting of a time series of PNG files) seems to be becoming popular and supported by the latest major browsers, including Google Chrome. As software to create APNG, APNG Assembler (apngasm) is a standard. Although there is a GUI version on Windows, from the consistency with the Linux environment, I will summarize the creation method using the CUI version. Install APNG Assembler APNG Assembler web site. Download an appropriate file from List of files. For example, Windows 64 bit CUI binary is apngasm-2.91-bin-win64.zip and Linux CUI binary is apngasm-2.91-bin-linux.zip. Although you may install it on […]

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Computing
Set up ITO-A@kyushu-u supercomputer

This is a memorandum report for seting up an environment on ITO-A at Kyushu University Supercomputer Center. How to login On Windows, you need a terminal emulator to login and MobaXterm is recommended to use, which also has a function of X11 forwarding for displaying X Window screen. Its installation method is introduced in this site (in Japanese). Change file access permission You may change the permission of your directories and files as follows so that group members can read and execute files and help you: chmod -R 750 /home/usr_num/account where the first, second, and third digits are types of permissions for user, group, and all the others, and the […]

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