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LabVIEW installed on Athena
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex T Prengel)
Mon Jun 2 16:53:01 2014
From: Alex T Prengel <alexp@MIT.EDU>
To: software-announce@mit.edu
Cc: alexp@mit.edu, cfyi@mit.edu, tbrand@mit.edu
Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2014 16:52:36 -0400
I've installed LabVIEW on Athena, as part of the recently launched MIT
site license. LabVIEW is system-design platform and development
environment for a visual programming language called "G", a dataflow
programming language. Execution is determined by the structure of a
graphical block diagram on which the programmer connects different
function-nodes by drawing wires.
Components installed include the main LabVIEW application and the VI
Analyser and LabVIEW Control Design and Simulation module.
There are some limitations and issues with the installation. Any
functionality involving physical instrument or device connection won't
work as this isn't possible on Athena machines. For similar reasons you
won't be able to run the LabVIEW web server. The browser plugin is
installed but will only run on 32 bit machines (LabVIEW is a 32 bit-only
application).
LabVIEW is only supported by the vendor on RedHat and SUSE platforms,
and the installation had to be modified significantly to make it work on
Ubuntu. As it is a large and complex system, some things other than
those noted above may not work correctly. If you run into any problems
that appear to be configuration issues, please report this to the
3partysw@mit.edu mailing list.
To run it:
add labview
labview &
There is extensive internal help and pdf manuals are accessible from
https://web.mit.edu/labview_v13.0.1/
Please see https://web.mit.edu/labview_v13.0.1/README.athena for
additional information and links to documentation and support sites.
Alex
