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If you are processing a large BEAMER design, you may need more resources than those available on the physical CNF conversion computers. We have you covered – BEAMER can be run in the cloud on AWS for low hourly rates. CNF Computing will work with you to set up a virtual machine optimized for your jobs memory, cpu, and/or disk I/O and storage requirements.
Shared Licensing
The BEAMER license is shared among all our users running BEAMER software.
To ensure you do not eat up the entire BEAMER license at once, under File - Properties - General - Computation, please make sure the "Number of threads" setting is no larger than 4.
Documentation:
- Beamer Quick Start
- Beamer Tone Reversal
- LayoutBeamer ManualLayoutBeamer Training Videos
- JEOL Formatter Manual
- Heidelberg Formatter Manual
- Data Preparation - Zero Width Lines
Invoking Beamer:
On the CNF conversion computers, the current version of GenISys Beamer can be invoked with any of the following commands (don't type in the dollar sign, that is the command prompt):
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$ LayoutBeamerbeamer or $ LayoutBEAMER or $ LayoutBeamer.csh |
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A previous version of GenISys Beamer may be available in case of bugs found in the most recently installed version. Invoke the If you need to run a previous version of BEAMER, please contact CNF Computing.
Python Invocation
Beamer includes a python library. We have created two shell scripts which start Python with your environment appropriately set for Beamer.
To use the production version of Beamer with Python the following command:
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# Python3 version: $ beamer-previous |
Occassionally, CNF will beta-test a new version of GenISys Beamer. If available, the developmental test version of Beamer may be invoked with the following command:
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python [additional arguments]
# Python 2 version:
$ beamer-python2 [additional arguments] |
In your python script, you will need to import "BEAMERpy" .