Stuff that should be running on every server...

Base software

• Libraries:

  • Graphviz (http://www.graphviz.org)

• Utilities:

  • p7zip (http://p7zip.sourceforge.net/)

  • iperf (http://sourceforge.net/projects/iperf/)

  • fio (http://freecode.com/projects/fio)

  • ganglia-gmond
• Python 2.7

  • Scipy (http://www.scipy.org/)

  • Numpy (http://www.numpy.org/)

  • Matplotlib (http://matplotlib.org/)

  • NetworkX (http://networkx.github.com/)

  • Nltk (http://nltk.org/)

  • Pygraphviz (http://networkx.lanl.gov/pygraphviz/)

  • Pyyaml (http://pyyaml.org/)

  • Cvxopt (http://abel.ee.ucla.edu/cvxopt/)

  • Scikit-learn (http://scikit-learn.org/stable/)

  • BeautifulSoup (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)

• Oracle Java (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/index.html)

  • ant (http://ant.apache.org/)

  • Apache Maven (http://maven.apache.org/)

• R-project (http://www.r-project.org/)

• Matlab (http://www.mathworks.com/products/matlab/)

Kernel parameters for big memory machines

#/etc/sysctl.conf

vm.overcommit_ratio = 100
vm.overcommit_memory = 2