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 Questions about issues mentioned here can be send to Teun Grit (system administration, grit 'at' astron.nl) or Arno Schoenmakers (offline software, schoenmakers 'at' astron.nl).
-===== Important messages =====
+===== Status =====
-==== 1 Nov 2009 ====
-Please note the following:
+  * To stay updated, you can follow the lofarcni twitter account: http://twitter.com/#!/lofarcni
+  * Or watch the forum: http://usg.lofar.org/forum/index.php
-  * Starting November 30, the old cluster hardware (listfen, lifs nodes) will be phased out
+  * Or request to be added to the lofar_cni mail exploder (contact Teun Grit).
 ===== News =====
+==== 8 Nov 2011 ====
+Last week we updated all CEP1 compute nodes (''lcexxx'') to Ubuntu 10.04 LTS, the same OS as is used on the CEP2 cluster. That means that users will use the same version of packages on CEP1 and on CEP2. In case you encounter problems with your package, let us know. The move to the new OS also ended the subdivision in subclusters on CEP1.
+==== 28 Jan 2011 ====
+Installed Michiel Brentjen's toolbox ''Pyautoplot-0.2''. This can be used to make diagnostic plots of uv-data in Measurement Sets. Run ''use Pyautoplots'' to activate it ; also requires ''LofIm'' and''Pythonlibs'' to be activated. More info and usage can be found [[operator:using_pyautoplot_script|on this page]].
+==== 8 Dec 2010: Casa up[dated to version 3.1.0 ====
+The Casa Package has been upgraded to 3.1.0. See [[http://casa.nrao.edu/release_notes.shtml| this NRAO page]] for more info on this release.
+==== 23 June 2010: Casa up[dated to version 3.0.2 ====
+The Casa Package has been upgraded to 3.0.2. See [[http://casa.nrao.edu/release_notes.shtml| this NRAO page]] for more info on this release.
+==== 21 April 2010: Casa updated to version 3.0.1 ====
+The Casa Package has been upgraded to 3.0.1. See [[http://casa.nrao.edu/release_notes.shtml| this NRAO page]] for more info on this release.
+==== 20 April 2010: Added AOFlagger to LOFAR build ====
+The daily build of LOFAR offline pipeline components to also includes the AOFlagger by Andre Offringa.
+==== 15 April 2010: USG software daily build now includes Pulsar module ====
+Following a request by Anastasia Alexov, the USG daily build now also includes the pulsar module. Modules that we now build are therefore: [[engineering:software:tools:DAL]], Pulsar.
+Initialization of [[engineering:software:tools:DAL]] and Pulsar is done through ''use LUS'' (for Lofar User Software; by L. Baehren).
+==== 13 Jan 2010: Casa updated to version 3.0.0 ====
+We upgraded the Casa package (distributed by NRAO) to version 3.0.0. This is from NRAO mailing:
+  * The release and helpdesk can be obtained from http://my.nrao.edu. Versions are available for Linux and Mac OSX 10.5 and 10.6.
+  * Details about the release including new capabilities, release notes, and the full user reference and cookbook can be found at the CASA home page: http://casa.nrao.edu
+  * We are also pleased to announce the creation of a new CASA wiki with fully annotated tutorials and tips: http://casaguides.nrao.edu. More guides covering a wider range of data possibilities will be added over time.
+==== 7 January 2010: New Python package Aipy ====
+We have made available a new Python package, called Aipy.  ([[http://setiathome.berkeley.edu/~aparsons/aipy/aipy.cgi]]). The installed version is 0.9.1. See [[public:lofar_packages]] for more info.
+==== 30 Nov 2009: new python packages ====
+We have made available two new python packages on the cluster nodes:
+  * pyTables -> version 2.1.2 (see [[http://www.pytables.org]] )
+  * h5py -> version 1.2.1 (see [[http://h5py.alfven.org]] )
+These packages are initialized with ''use Pythonlibs''. See [[public:lofar_packages]] for more info.
+Cheers, Arno Schoenmakers
 ==== 25 Nov 2009: Some packages removed ====