USING QE_nipy on WINDOWS

Before the version of QE_nipy will be available for windows the usage in the Unix virtual box for windows has been developed by Dr. P. Jochym, while visiting the University of Saskatchewan in 2013/2014.

Installation and application of QE_nipy in a virtual box

The file NiPy-VirtualBox-appliance.ova (2GB compressed) contains a virtual machine image of the Linux system (Debian stable) with a complete set of QE-nipy tutorials and related tools installed and configured. The software is available on Bugaboo westgrid supercomputer on shared directory for group wg-jerzy: home/szpunarb/scratch/MD/NiPy-VirtualBox-appliance.ova or can be downloaded from here.

Installation

· Please contact local technical staff about the recommended installation of Virtual Box (e.g. Oracle VM VirtualBOX) and ask for installation or install it yourself.

· In your Virtual Box use import appliance tool to import the image into your virtualization software (eg. VirtualBox, VMWare).

· Run the instance. It should open the session automatically. (If not login to user account with password: nipy)

Usage

· Double-click on the NiPy icon (picture of the crystal) on the desktop, or open the terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and execute(three commands):

· Issue the following commands by typing in line:

o cd qe-doc

o source ~/nipy/bin/activate

o ipython notebook --pylab=inline

· The browser window will show with the iPython notebook interface and the list of tutorials. Open one and play.

· When you are done with it you can stop the server by typing Ctrl-C twice in the terminal or by just closing the terminal window.

Note: The terminal window runs the notebook server. Do not close it because your session will stop working.