SuperComputing CBTs (English) , Joomla CBTs (Urdu) , Linux Advance Administration CBTs (Urdu)

Assalam-u-alaikum everyone!

[For the impatient, videos are below this letter!]

On this page, you will find videos / CBTs I have developed, mainly on Linux based technologies, both in Urdu and English Language. The CBTs in Urdu language, are not only Pakistan's first, but world's first on the topic of Linux Advance administration, specifically in Urdu language. The idea was to spread the knowledge to those who have difficulty understanding English. Of-course, English is not my native language also. I must mention that any material in non-native language is difficult /slow to understand for everyone in the world. It is because the brain has to do two tasks at once. That is, first translate the material into native language, and then try to comprehend the translated material. So that is why studying any technology in native language is very effective and speedy. However, I do not advocate studying newer technologies in native language "only". This way, one will have very limited exposure to the world of knowledge out there. The fact that every piece of technology can not be translated into one's native language, must also be kept in mind. Studying in native language is (should be) your first step only. You should be mentally ready / prepared to study in foreign languages in later stages, as you progress.

Alhumdulillah, I have received a lot of appreciation, and dua (prayers) from people all over the world, since the day I uploaded these videos. Alhumdulillah, Alhumdulillah, Alhumdulillah. And thank you all for appreciation.

Sometimes, I also get requests for uploading CCNA or windows or even some Linux related CBT on my site. Please understand that I only upload what I created myself. Rather, I have already uploaded everything on this site. Please do not expect me to make a video within a night, just on your request. I do this in my free time. And whenever I have time, I will make one and share that with you, without asking. By the way, Cisco is not my field (anymore). And windows .... just forget about that.

Also, I get requests of helping people out with some Linux problem they are facing. In many of the emails, I am just bombarded with vague questions, like:

" .... I am installing linux on my pc and it is not working. I saw your CBTs but cannot solve the problem. Please tell me how to install linux on my pc..."

No comments!

Talking about helping people. I love to help. And at times, I do that for free. But, you see, I have a job and a small lovely family to take care of. I do not give services or consultation for free. Please do not expect the same.

I have very exciting material (CBTs) coming up for you all. I am in the planning phase now. The new material will be in primarily in English, which will go through a re-make for Urdu.

That is all I wanted to share with you for now.

Please keep remembering me in your dua (prayers) and good wishes. Keep sending in those moral boosting emails! That is the payment you make for these CBTs! :)

For those asking for the actual CD/ DVD of these videos, please contact:-

Yaser Shahzad,

Modern Electric Store, I-10 Markaz, Islamabad. Pakistan.

Phone: +92-345-5156545

You will need to send him the payment for the Media+Postal charges and he will get it delivered to you, InshaAllah. Please contact him for the price of the DVD.

Tahiati, wa, Ma' ssalama, (Regards)

Muhammad Kamran Azeem

About the Codecs for your video players:

For those who use wintendo, the file (tscc.exe) having codec named "tscc" for AVI files, can be download from here on this site, or from Techsmith's site directly. Linux users are advised to use the MPlayer program.

Linux Beowulf clusters / HPC clusters / Supercomputing CBTs (In English language!) [Released on: 26 April 2009]

The following software was used :

Fedora 8 (32 bit) on my physical host / laptop.
VMware Server 2 for Linux (32 bit), installed on Fedora host.
CentOS 5.2 on Virtual HPC machines / nodes. (Note: I have also used Fedora 8 successfully as HPC nodes in other tests.)
MPICH 2
GotoBLAS
High Performance Linpack

HPCC on VMware, Part-1: Setting up Virtual Machines. (47 MB)
HPCC on VMware, Part-2: Configuration of SSH, user equivalence. (61 MB)
HPCC on VMware, Part-3: Installation of MPI-2.0, compilation and execution of sample programs. (23 MB)
HPCC on VMware, Part-4: Compilation and execution of sample programs. (2 MB)
HPCC on VMware, Part-5: Installation of GotoBLAS and High Performance LinPack. Benchmarking with Linpack. (58 MB)