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What Runs Where on Athena: Full Table of Applications

Table legend: y = yes, n = no, p = planned, b = broken

Lnx = Intel/Linux, Sun = Sparc/Solaris

Help/Information

Athena Help

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

ahelp

y

y

andrew

help on Andrew System

Answerbook

y

y

 

now only on Web

apropos

y

y


finds man pages containing key words

athinfo

y

y


supplies info about workstation

info

y

y

 

information browser for gnu software

locate

y

n


finds files by matching path components

man, xman

y

y


standard UNIX man page viewer

olc, olc_answers

y

y


accesses on-line consultants and stock answers; stock answers on Web

olh

y

y


Athena-specific information; on Web

sendbug

y

y


bug reporting utility

stella

y

y

 

supplies, updates information about a workstation

tellme

y

y


tells public workstation root passwd, Athena cluster combo

whichlocker

y

y

outland

tells which locker a program is in

yelp

y

y

 

Gnome help browser- misc applications, system man and info pages

Database

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

mysql

y

y

mysql

mysql SQL client and server

Open Office Database

y

y

 

database component of Open Office office suite

sqlplus (Oracle client)

y

y

oracle8, oracle10g

Oracle database SQL client

Star Office Database

y

y

soffice

database component of Star Office office suite

MIT Information

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Course Descriptions & Schedules

y

y


runs on Web

cview, xcluster

y

y


displayes current Athena cluster usage

dash

y

y


displays pull-down command menus at top of screen

Humanities Lottery

y

y


Humanities Lottery on Web

Freshman Housing Lottery

y

y


lottery page on Web

Phys. Ed. Lottery

y

y


lottery page on Web

SIS

y

y


course information, grades, registration on Web

xmitdir

n

y

mitdir

MIT directory information; Web version

MIT Library Reference

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Ask Us!

y

y


library consultants on Web

First Search

y

y


bibliographic databases now on Web only (follow Provider Search->First Search) (MIT only)

Net Entrez, Cn3D

b

y

entrez

Life Science publication lookup, molecular structure viewer; on Web

Reference Materials

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Encyclopedia Britannica

y

y


runs on Web (MIT only)

Oxford English Dictionary

y

y


on Web (MIT only)

oed (Oxford English Dictionary)

y

y

outland

text-mode OED client (MIT only)

Shakespeare

y

y

 

on Web, here & here

thesaurus, xthesaurus

y

y

sipb

Thesaurus on Web

webster, xwebster (dictionary)

y

y

sipb

Web version

Wikipedia

y

y

 

online encyclopedia; runs on Web

Wordnet

y

y

wordnet

Encyclopedia and thesaurus-like utility; Web version

Internet Exploration

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Amaya

y

b

amaya

Web browser and authoring environment

firefox

y

y

 

default Athena Web browser

konqueror

y

b

kde

Web browser based on KDE desktop environment

lynx

y

y

infoagents

text-only Web browser

mozilla

y

y


Web browser

netscape

y

y

infoagents

Web browser

opera

y

b

opera

Web browser

scripts

y

y

scripts

Web hosting service allowing automatic configuration for many popular Web-basd services (MediaWiki, WordPress, Joomla...)

weblint

y

y

infoagents

checks html pages for correct syntax

w3m

y

y

sipb

terminal-based Web browser

Screen Accessories
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Window Managers

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

afterstep

y

y

windowmanagers

NeXTStep compatible window manager

ctwm

y

y

windowmanagers

twm variant

fvwm2

y

y

windowmanagers

fvwm variant

fvwm95

y

y

windowmanagers

fvwm variant

fvwm

y

y

windowmanagers

twm variant

gwm

y

y

windowmanagers


icewm

y

y

windowmanagers


lwm

y

y

windowmanagers


metacity

y

y

 

Athena 9.4 default window manager

mwm

y

y


Athena 8.x default window manager

nawm

y

y

windowmanagers

substitute for a window manager

9wm

y

y

windowmanagers


ratpoison

y

y

windowmanagers

minimalist window manager that maximizes screen space, avoids mouse use

twm

y

y



vtwm.gamma

y

y

windowmanagers

twm variant

windowmaker

b

y

windowmanagers

NeXTStep compatible window manager

Utilities

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Eterm

b

y

outland

enhanced terminal emulator

gnomecal

y

y

outland

calendar

gnome-calculator

y

y

 

calculator

gnome-control-center

y

y

 

allows setting various desktop preferences

gnome-font-properties

y

y

 

allows changing desktop font attributes

gnome-terminal

y

y

 

enhanced terminal window

ical

y

y

tcl

calendar

less

y

y


bi-directional text pager

more

y

y


text pager

nautilus

y

y


file manager and desktop environment

pscal

y

y

postscript

hardcopy calendar

rxvt

y

y

outland

"slimmed down" terminal emulator

screen

y

y

gnu

screen manager that multiplexes a terminal between processes

sipb-xscreensaver

y

n

sipb

screensaver/locks screen; renamed former xscreensaver

TechTime

y

y

 

MIT-wide enterprise calendar system; on Web

vncviewer

y

y

outland

remote desktop viewing application

xcal

y

y

sipb

calendar

xcalc

y

y


calculator

xclock

y

y


clock

xfontsel

y

y

 

displays samples and information about available fonts

xload

y

y


load gauge

xscreensaver

y

y


standard screen saver/lock; Web info; formerly called xss

xtc

y

y

calendar

Athena calendar

xterm

y

y


creates new, empty terminal window

Communication
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Electronic Mail

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

alpine

y

y

alpine

text mail client; successor to pine

chpobox

y

y


utility that changes address mail is sent to

dist

y

y


allows forwarding mail while preserving mime enclosures

evolution

y

y


standard Athena GUI mail client; user guide

exmh

y

y

sipb

GUI/MIME enabled interface to MH mailer; Web info

from

y

y


utility that tells who mail is from

mailquota, mailusage

y

y

 

shows mail quota, disk space used by mail on P.O. server

metamail

y

y

mime

decodes multiple MIME mail enclosure formats; online info (old)

MH (nmh), xmh

y

y


basic mail handling suite

MH-e (emacs)

y

y


emacs interface to MH

mitmail utilities

y

y

 

utilities for manipulating and examining mail on IMAP servers

mutt

y

y

sipb

mail program; author Web pages

pine

y

y


standard Athena text mail client; author Web pages

pmail

y

y

sipb

mail program

RMAIL (emacs)

y

y


mail program invoked from emacs

thunderbird

y

y

thunderbird

mail client and newsgroup reader based on Mozilla engine

WebMail

y

y


Web-based mail system; local instructions

ytnef

y

y

outland

allows decoding attachments in MS winmail format files

Conferencing/NetNews

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

discuss, xdsc

y

y


standard Athena message board system; local online docs

DISCUSS-e (emacs)

y

y


emacs interface to discuss; local online docs

GNUS-e (emacs)

y

y


news reader accessed through emacs; local online docs

Google Groups

y

y

 

on the Web

Mozilla Newsgroups

y

y

 

internal Mozilla Newsgroup reader

thunderbird

y

y

thunderbird

mail client and newsgroup reader based on Mozilla engine

tin

b

y

sipb

news reader

trn, xrn

y

y

sipb

news reader; local online docs

Dialup/File Transfer

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

ftp

y

y


file transfer program

kermit

y

y


serial data transfer program

MindTerm applet (remote Athena login)

y

y


remote login Java applet; access via Web

rlogin, telnet

y

y


remote login program

ssh

y

y


secure remote login, file transfer program; OpenSSH Web page; local Web page, ssh on Athena dialups

uuencode, uudecode

y

y


program to transfer files via Email

x3270

y

y


IBM 3270 terminal emulator

Zmodem (rz, sz)

y

y

sipb

serial data transfer program

Real-Time Communication

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

BarnOwl

y

y

barnowl

curses-based IM client supporting zephyr/aim/jabber protocols

gaim

y

y

 

multi-protocol instant message client; information

jwrite

y

y

 

command-line IM client for users with Jabber accounts

owl

y

y

ktools

stand-alone, tty-based instant messaging client; supports Zephyr, AIM protocols

talk

y

y

sipb

text instant messaging program

write

y

y


text instant messaging program

xlite

y

n

outland

voIP phone client (SIP account required to use)

xzewd, xzul

y

y

outland

zephyr GUI wrapper, displays "buddy lists" of selected online users

Zephyr (zwrite, zlocate, zctl)

y

y


standard Athena instant messaging system; local online docs

Text Software
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Text/HTML

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

AbiWord

y

y

abiword

word processor

Applix HTML Author

y

y

applix

html editor component of Applixware office suite

Applix Words

y

y

applix

word processor component of Applixware office suite

dvips

y

y


utility that converts dvi files to PostScript

Emacs

y

y


standard UNIX text editor; local online docs

enscript

y

y


utility that prints text files on PostScript printers

eq

y

y

andrew

Andrew System equation formatter

ez

y

y

andrew

Andrew System text editor; local online docs

FrameMaker

n

y

frame

desktop publishing application: 7.2 docs, local Web page, local online docs

gedit

y

y

 

lightweight text editor

HoTMetaL Pro

n

y

hotmetal

html editor; vendor docs; 3.0 requires X server in 8 bit mode (old)

html2ps

y

y

outland

utility that converts html to PostScript; author Web site

ispell

y

y


spelling checker

jedit

y

y

jedit

text editor with many syntax highlighting modes and built-in scripting language

latex, tex

y

y


standard UNIX text formatting system; local online docs

latex2html

y

y

infoagents

utility that converts latex files to html; online docs

LyX

y

y

lyx

structured document authoring application

mapedit

y

y

cwis

utility that creates clickable image maps for Web pages; needs X server in 8 bit mode

Mozilla Composer

y

y


internal Mozilla HTML editor

mswordview (wvWare)

y

y

consult, outland

utility that converts MS Word docs to html, other formats; author Web site

nedit

y

y

editors

text editor

Open Office html Editor

y

y

 

html editor component of Open Office office suite

Open Office Word Processor

y

y

 

word processor component of Open Office office suite

pdftex, pdflatex

y

y


utility that converts tex and latex files to pdf

pico

y

y

sipb

simple text editor

ps2pdf

y

y

 

utility that converts PostScript files to pdf

Star Office html Editor

y

y

soffice

html editor component of Star Office office suite

Star Office Word Processor

y

y

soffice

word processor component of Star Office office suite

TeXmacs

y

y

texmacs

"scientific" word processor, allowing embedded math formulas; author site

troff, psroff

y

y


text formatting application

TtH (Tex to html)

y

y

tth

utility that converts latex math equations to html; online docs

vi

y

y


standard UNIX modal text editor

vim, nvi

y

y

sipb

vi editor variants

WebEQ

y

y

webeq

utility for representing math notation in html pages; online docs, local Web page

xcoral

y

y

editors

text editor

XEmacs

y

y

xemacs

GUI emacs variant; online info

Text Previewers

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Acrobat

y

y

acro

applications that create and read documents in pdf format; Lnx: reader only

Ghostscript

y

y


PostScript file viewer; Web docs

ghostview

y

y

gnu

Ghostscript front end

gpdf

y

y

 

pdf file viewer

gv

y

y

 

better Ghostscript front end

xchm

y

y

xchm

chm (compiled html help) file viewer

xdvi

y

y

 

dvi file viewer

xpdf

y

y

outland

pdf file viewer

Graphics Software
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Graphics (drawing)

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Applix Graphics

y

y

applix

drawing component of Applixware office suite

Applix Presents

y

y

applix

presentation graphics component of Applixware office suite

bitmap

y

y


bitmap file editor

convert (ImageMagick)

y

y

 

utility to convert to/from various image formats

CorelDRAW

n

y

corel

drawing/presentation graphics suite (old)

dia

y

y

dia

drawing program for creating diagrams; author Web site, with documentation

DjVu Libre utilities

y

y

djvu

toolset for manipulating DjVu image files; author Web pages

eagle

y

n

eaglecad

circuit board design application; vendor site

eog

y

y

 

image file viewer

FreeWRL

y

y

freewrl

VRML2/VRML97/X3D file viewer

FWTools (openev)

y

n

fwtools

utilities for viewing and manipulating GIS image data; supports multiple formats including jpeg2000

geomview

y

y

geomview

3d image viewer; author Web pages; Web docs

gerbv

y

y

gerbv

Gerber circuit board design file viewer

gimp

y

y

graphics, gimp-2.2

image manipulation application; author Web page

GLE

y

y

gle

language for generating 2d graphics

GLUT

y

y

glut

toolkit for building OpenGL graphics applications

GNU plot utilities (graph)

y

y

sipb

utility for plotting graphs in various image formats

inkscape

y

y

inkscape

GUI editor for Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) drawing files

ipe

y

y

ipe

extensible drawing editor that interfaces to LaTeX

ivview

y

y

inventor

VRML1/Inventor file viewer

Magicpoint

y

y

magicpoint

utility for presenting slide shows

NetPBM Utilities

y

y

graphics

utility to convert to/from various graphic formats

NetPBM Utilities (Lnx)

y

n


utility to convert to/from various graphic formats

OpenGL

y

y


3d graphics libraries

Open Inventor

y

y

inventor

3d image generation system; local Web page

Open Office Drawing

y

y

 

drawing component of Open Office office suite

Open Office Presentation Graphics

y

y

 

presentation graphics component of Open Office office suite

orbisnap

y

y

orbisnap

VRML2/VRML97 file viewer

POV-Ray

y

y

povray

ray-tracing image renderer

pstoedit

y

y

sipb

utility to convert PostScript files to editable formats

raster

y

y

andrew

Andrew System image editor

rayshade

y

y

rayshade

ray-tracing image renderer

Renderman

y

n

renderman

graphics libraries for image rendering; online docs

Scribus

y

y

scribus

page layout application

Star Office Drawing

y

y

soffice

drawing component of Star Office office suite

Star Office Presentation Graphics

y

y

soffice

presentation graphics component of Star Office office suite

tgif

y

y

sipb

structured drawing program; info on Web

Xara LX

y

n

xaralx

multifeatured vector graphics drawing program; author site

xcircuit

y

y

xcircuit

drawing program for circuit diagrams; Author Web site

xdpr

n

y


utility that prints window images

xfig

y

y

sipb

drawing program

xpaint

y

y

graphics

drawing program

xv

y

y

graphics

image file viewer; online manual

xwd, xwud

y

y


utility that saves window images to files

Graphics (CAD)

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

ac3d

y

n

ac3d

3d image modeler

blender

y

y

blender

3d modeling, animation, rendering, post-production and playback application

Maya

y

n

maya_v6.0

high end modeling, visual effects and animation tool; limited availability (see detail description)

Pro-Engineer

y

y

ptc

high-end CAD application

QCad

y

y

qcad

2d CAD application

Graphics (video)

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

mpeg_play

b

y

graphics

mpeg-1 movie player; needs X server in 8 bit mode

mplayer

y

y

outland

video media file player that can handle multiple formats

sdr

b

b

mbone

utilitity that receives and displays live video broadcasts

xanim

y

y

graphics

utility that plays video animations

xine

y

b

outland

video media file player that can handle multiple formats

Audio Software
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audioconvert

n

y


utility that converts Sun Audio files to/from various formats

audioplay

n

y


Sun audio player

gnome-cd

b

b


audio CD player

gnome-volume-control

y

n


utility that controls audio source, volume on Linux

mpg123

y

y

infoagents

mp3 player

play (sox)

y

n


utility that plays various audio formats

RealPlayer

y

y

 

RealAudio/Video player

sdtaudio

n

y

 

simple Sun audio recorder, player

sdtaudiocontrol

n

y

 

utility to control audio source, volume on Suns

showaudio

y

y

infoagents

audio player

xmcd

b

b

sipb

audio CD player

xmms

b

n

 

mp3 player

xplay

n

y

infoagents

audio player

Numerical/Math Software
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Analysis/Plotting Software

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

dc

y

y


desk calculator

euler

y

y

euler

interactive numerical analysis language with notebooks, graphics capabilities

fityk

y

n

fityk

fits curves to experimental data points

gnuplot

y

y

gnuplot

data plotting utility; FAQ

Grace

y

y

grace

2d numerical plotting; Web page, local documentation

jmp

y

n

sasjmp

graphics-based statistical data exploration and discovery

K3DSurf

y

y

k3dsurf

visualization of mathematical surfaces described by equations in 3d to 6d

maple, mint

y

y

maple

symbolic math system; local Web page, local documentation

Mathematica

y

y

math

symbolic math system

matlab, simulink

y

y

matlab

digital signal processing & data analysis system; local Web page, online docs for latest release, FAQ

maxima

y

y

maxima

freely distributable symbolic algebra system; local documentation

nickle

y

y

5c

desk calculator, prototyper for numerical algorithms

octave

y

y

octave

digital signal processing & data analysis system

ParaView

y

y

paraview

3d data analysis and visualization

PARI/GP

y

y

pari-gp

computer algebra system designed for fast computations in number theory

R

y

y

r

statistical analysis and graphics system

SAGE

y

n

sage

pure and applied mathematics system incorporating notebooks and interfaces to other mathematics applications

sas

y

n

sas

statistical analysis system; local Web page

scilab

y

y

scilab

scientific software for numeric computation, digital signal processing & data analysis

singular

y

y

singular

computer algebra system for polynomial computations; local online docs

splus

y

y

splus

statistical analysis system; local Web page

stata

y

y

stata

statistical analysis system

tecplot

y

y

tecplot

sophisticated data plotting system; local Web page, online User's Manual

Spreadsheets

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

Applix Spreadsheets

y

y

applix

spreadsheet component of Applixware office suite

gnumeric

y

y

gnumeric

GNU spreadsheet; developer page

Open Office Spreadsheet

y

y

 

spreadsheet component of Open Office office suite

sc

b

y

sipb

simple spreadsheet

Star Office Spreadsheet

y

y

soffice

spreadsheet component of Star Office office suite

table

y

y

andrew

Andrew System spreadsheet and table component

xess

y

y

xess

sophisticated, programmable spreadsheet; local Web page, online docs

Languages/Debuggers
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C

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

cc

y

y

sunsoft

Sun C compiler

gcc

y

y

 

gnu C compiler; also in gnu, gcc-3.2, gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0 lockers; gcc Web page

lint

y

y

sunsoft

Sun C code checker

C++

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

CC

y

y

sunsoft

Sun C++ compiler

g++

y

y

 

gnu C++ compiler; also in gnu, gcc-3.2, gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0 lockers; gcc Web page

FORTRAN

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

f2c

n

y

fortran

utility that converts FORTRAN->C

f77

y

y

sunsoft

Sun FORTRAN 77 compiler

g77, gfortran

y

y

 

gnu FORTRAN 77/90 compiler; also in gnu, gcc-3.4, gcc-4.0 lockers; recent news

f90/f95

y

y

sunsoft

Sun FORTRAN 90/95 compiler

ftnchek

y

y

fortran

lint-like utility for checking FORTRAN code

Other Languages

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

mlisp (Allegro Common Lisp)

y

y

acl

Common Lisp compiler/interpreter; local 8.0 Web documentation

AMPL

y

y

oplstudio

modeling language for mathematical programming ; limited availability (see detail description)

awk

y

y


pattern scanning language interpreter

clisp

y

y

clisp

Common Lisp compiler/interpreter

cobra

y

n

mono

Cobra language compiler, running within Mono environment

cT

y

n

ct

interactive, graphics based language interpreter; cT information page

drscheme

y

y

drscheme

Scheme interpreter, development environment; online manual

EiffelStudio

y

y

eiffel

IDE and command-line compiler for Eiffel programming language; docs

Erlang

y

y

erlang

compiler and runtime for Erlang functional programming language; local docs

fsc (F# compiler, mono)

y

n

mono

F# compiler, running within Mono environment

Gambas

y

n

gambas

IDE for Visual Basic-like language; documentation site

gcj

y

y

 

gnu Java compiler; also in also in gnu, gcc-3.2, gcc-4.0 lockers

gdc (D language compiler)

y

n

d

D language native compiler, based on gcc

GDL (IDL clone)

y

n

gdl

interpreter, incremental compiler for GNU Data Language

ghc (Glasgow Haskell Compiler)

y

y

ghc

compiler, interpreter for Haskell functional programming language; local docs

gprolog

y

y

gprolog

interpreter, compiler for Prolog programming language

Hugs 98 (Haskell)

y

y

hugs

interactive programming environment for Haskell 98 programming language

J

y

n

j

mathematical programming language related to APL with full graphics capabilities

Java Development Kit

y

y

java

Java programming language tool suite; local Web page

jikes

y

y

jikes

Java compiler; home page

jython

y

y

jython

python interpreter that allows direct access to Java classes

logo

y

y

logo

interactive, graphics based language interpreter

lua

y

y

outland

extensible, general- purpose scripting language designed for speed and ease of use

mcs (C# compiler, mono)

y

y

mono

C# compiler, part of Mono computing environment

nasm

y

n

nasm

80x86 assembler, supports range of object formats and macros

newLISP

y

y

newlisp

extensible, embeddable lisp-like scripting language

OCaml

y

y

ocaml

compiler, interpreter for Caml functional programming language

pc (Pascal)

n

y

sunsoft_v5.1

standard Pascal compiler

Perl 4

b

y

perl

multi-purpose scripting language interpreter; online docs

Perl 5

y

y


multi-purpose scripting language interpreter; online docs

python 2.3

y

y

 

general purpose scripting language interpreter; also NumPy numeric package

python 2.5

y

n

python

general purpose scripting language interpreter

ruby

y

y

ruby-lang

object-oriented scripting language interpreter

scala

y

y

scala

object-oriented, functional language that interoperates with Java and .NET

scheme

y

y

scheme

MIT Scheme language interpreter

SCM

y

y

scm

Scheme interpreter; online manual

sml (Standard ML of New Jersey)

y

y

smlnj

compiler and development environment for ML functional programming language

SWI Prolog

y

y

swiprolog

Prolog language compiler, development environment

yorick

y

y

yorick

interpreted scientific language with graphics support

Debuggers/Development Environments

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

adb

n

y


general-purpose program debugger

ant

y

y

sipb

Java build tool, conceptually similar to "make"

CMake

y

y

cmake

cross-platform build system generator

dbx

y

y

sunsoft

Sun debugger for a variety of languages

Eclipse

y

y

eclipse-sdk

open, extensible IDE with Java implementation

Forte for Java

y

y

forte

Java integrated development environment

gdb

y

y

gnu

gnu debugger

gdb (Lnx)

y

n


gnu debugger

Java Studio

n

y

studio

Sun Java development environment (old)

Java Studio Creator

y

y

jscreator

Sun Java development environment for Web-based applications

Java Studio Enterprise

y

y

jsenterprise

Sun Java enterprise development environment

Java Workshop

n

y

workshop

Sun Java development environment (old)

JBuilder Personal Edition

y

y

jbuilder

Borland Java development environment

Sun Studio

y

y

sunsoft

Sun Integrated development environment

NetBeans

y

y

netbeans

Sun Java development environment

TotalView

y

n

totalview

C, C++ and Fortran debugger for multiprocessor and multithreaded systems

valgrind

y

n

 

profiler, Linux/i386 dynamic memory allocation debugger

Workshop, Visual Workshop

n

y

sunsoft_v6.1a

Sun C/C++ GUI development environment.; online docs (old)

Programming Libraries
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Graphics Libraries

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

OpenDX

y

y

opendx

3d data visualization system

Visualization Toolkit

y

y

vtkit

graphics library toolkit for 3d image visualization; author Web page

Math Libraries

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

GNU Scientific Library

y

y

gnusl

numerical analysis library; online docs

IMSL Numerical Libraries

y

y

imsl

numerical libraries for scientific and statistical computation

IT++

y

y

itpp

mathematical and digital signal processing library; online docs

LAPACK

y

y

lapack_v3.0-06

numeric linear algebra libraries; documentation

Netlib

y

y


archive containing Lapack, other code; runs on Web

Numerical Recipes

y

y

recipes

numerical analysis library; online books

User Interfaces/Widgets

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

Andrew Toolkit

y

y

andrew

multi-component GUI and application development environment

boost C++ libraries

y

y

boost

multipurpose additions to the C++ Standard Library

FLTK

y

y

fltk

cross-platform C++ GUI builder and widget toolkit

guile

y

y

guile

version of the Scheme programming language that can be used as an embedded scripting language

Motif

y

y


dynamic and static libraries of 2d X Windows graphics "widgets"; (Lnx), dynamic only (Sun)

PerlQt

y

n

perlqt_v3.009

Perl interface to Qt GUI toolkit

Qt

y

y

qt-dynamic, qt-static

C++ based GUI builder and "widget" set; online docs

Swing (Java)

b

y

swing_v1.1

supplementary Java graphics libraries; online docs

Tcl, Tk

y

y


programming environment for creating GUI interfaces

Wcl

y

y

wcl

library allowing look-and-feel of "widget"-based apps to be specified in Xrm resource files

Xaw, Xt, Xlib

y

y


dynamic and static libraries of 2d X Windows graphics "widget" components

Simulation & Modeling
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Bioinformatics

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENTS

AFNI

y

n

seven

viewing & analysis of functional MRI brain images

Biopython

y

y

seven

gene sequence processing and analysis tools

BLAST

y

y

blast

application for finding regions of local similarity between molecular sequences

CLC Free Sequence Viewer

y

y

clcbio

tool suite for bioinformatics analysis

clustalw

y

y

clustalw

general purpose multiple sequence alignment program for DNA or proteins

emboss

y

y

emboss

collection of tools for molecular analysis of genomic data

Geneious

y

n

geneious

integrated bioinformatics tool suite for manipulating, finding and exploring biological data

GENSCAN

y

y

seven

tool for predicting locations and exon-intron structures of genes

hmmer

y

y

hmmer

set of tools that profile hidden Markov models for protein sequence analysis

meme/mast

y

y

meme

meme: tool for discovering motifs in a group of related DNA or protein sequences. mast: tool for searching biological databases for known motifs

NEURON

y

y

neuron

simulator of neurons and networks of neurons; Web page

Osprey

y

y

osprey

tool for visualization of biological interaction networks

phylip

y

y

phylip

collection of tools for inferring phylogenies

primer3

y

y

primer3

program for designing Polymerase Chain Reaction primers

Circuit Design

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

awaves

n

y

hspice

analog circuit simulator for steady-state and transient circuits; Linux version: Hspice only

Field Simulation

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

hfss

y

y

ansoft

high frequency Maxwell equation solver

maxwell

y

y

ansoft

electromagnetic 2d and 3d field simulator

Finite Element Analysis

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

adina

n

y

adina

finite-element design application; limited availability (see detail description)

CalculiX

y

y

calculix

3d structural analysis finite-element program, with pre- and post-processor

EasyMesh

y

y

easymesh

2d Delaunay mesh generator

Elmer

y

y

elmer

multiphysics finite-element application

FreeFem++

y

n

freefempp

2d finite-element analysis, partial differential equation solver

OpenFOAM

y

n

openfoam

libraries and tools for computational fluid dynamics and multiphysics applications

tetgen

y

y

tetgen

3d tetrahedral mesh generator and Delaunay triangulator

triangle

y

y

triang

2d mesh generator and Delaunay triangulator

Geographic Information Systems

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

ArcExplorer

y

y

arcims

Geographic Information System file viewer; docs

ArcInfo/ArcView

n

y

arcinfo, arcview

Geographic Information System programming environment; local Web page

Molecular Modeling & Dynamics

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

babel

y

y

xdrawchem

utility that converts molecular description files to/from other formats

Cambridge Structural Database

y

y

cambsd

database of chemical and crystallographic information for small organic and metal-organic compounds

ChemDraw

n

y

chemdraw

GUI, "drag-and-drop" interface for building, manipulating chemical formulas; needs X server in 8 bit mode (old)

CPMD

y

y

cpmd

parallelized plane wave/pseudopotential implementation of Density Functional Theory

Deep View (Swiss-Pdb viewer)

y

n

deepview

structural analysis and display of protein molecular chemistry models; online docs

Discovery Studio Visualizer

y

n

dsvisualizer

visualization and analysis of molecular images and sequences

Espresso

y

n

espresso

programs for quantum-mechanical simulations based on Density Functional Theory

Gaussian, Gaussview

y

y

gaussian

computational molecular chemistry modeler

Jmol

y

y

jmol

3d molecule image viewer in Java

Mercury

y

y

hg

crystal structure visualization tool

molden

y

y

molden

application that computes and displays molecular density patterns

molekel

y

y

molekel

3d molecule image viewer

molscript

y

n

molscript

tool for generating 3d molecular images

platon

y

y

platon

crystallographic computational chemistry tool

pymol

y

y

pymol

multi-featured molecular structure viewer

rasmol

y

y

rasmol

3d molecule image viewer; local online docs

Star Biochem

y

y

 

3d Java molecular viewing application, accessible on Web

VMD

y

y

vmd

3d molecule image viewer, supports animation, rendering; local docs

Xaim

y

y

xaim

GUI interface to programs that compute and display molecular chemistry distributions

XCrySDen

y

y

xcrysden

crystalline and molecular structure visualization program

XDrawChem

y

n

xdrawchem

2d chemical formula drawing program

Other Simulations

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

CHEMKIN

y

y

chemkin

gas phase chemical kinetics analysis simulation

Electric VLSI

y

y

electric

VLSI circuit design and simulation application

ePhysics

y

y

ansoft

interactive software package for analyzing thermal and structural deformation and stress

gEDA

y

y

geda

suite of of electronic design tools, currently offering schematic capture and simulation tools

GNU Linear Programming Kit

y

y

glpk

solver/library routines for solving linear programming problems

ipopt

y

y

ipopt

large-scale nonlinear optimization package

lpsolve

y

y

lpsolve

Mixed Integer Linear Programming solver

Magic

y

y

magic-vlsi

interactive editor for VLSI layouts

Meep, MPB, Harminv

y

y

meep, sunmeep

utilities for analysis of time-domain signals

oof

y

y

oof

computation of macroscopic material properties from images of microstructure

OPL Studio

y

y

oplstudio

simulation modeling for mathematical programming and combinational optimization in the OPL modeling language; limited availability (see detail description)

sketch

y

y

sketch

software synthesis tool for rapid development of tuned, bug-free algorithm implementations

snopt

y

y

snopt

general-purpose solver for constrained optimization

spin

y

y

spin

LTL model checking system in asynchronous software systems design; local online docs

Virtualization

Lnx

Sun

LOCKER

COMMENT

vmplayer (VMware)

y

n

 

virtual machine player from VMware

Courseware
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olta

y

y

olta

utility for accessing online course TAs; online docs (old)

Miscellaneous Utilities
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ADSM/TSM backup

y

y

adsm

network backup system; local online info, pdf manual

attach-usb, detach-usb

y

y

consult

mounts, unmounts USB flash drive on local machine

blanche

y

y


Moira list maintenance utility; Web version (MIT only)

cdrecord

y

n

 

records data on CD-R, CD-R/W drives

clean

y

y

consult

removes control characters from text files (converts DOS to UNIX newlines)

CVS

y

y

gnu

version control system

dos2unix, unix2dos

n

y


converts text file newline between UNIX/DOS formats

dsgrep

y

y


utility to search Discuss meetings for text strings

fs commands

y

y


AFS file system commands; online docs

g3data

y

y

g3data

extracts numeric data values from graphs published in image format

git

y

n

git

fast, scalable distributed version control system

GnuCash

y

b

gnucash

personal finance manager

gpg

y

y

gnu

tool for encrypting and digitally signing files; Web page

helpquota

y

y

consult

utility that helps deal with "over quota" problems

hesinfo

y

y


Hesiod information utility (users, filesystems..)

hfs, xhfs

y

y

hfstools

Macintosh disk access utility

lastupd

y

y

consult

utility that tells when mail hubs were last updated

listmaint

y

y


Moira list maintenance utility; Web version (MIT only)

lookup

y

y

consult

utility to find server a locker is on

lsof

y

n

 

lists open files on computer

mailmaint

y

y


mailing list maintenance utility

hg (Mercurial)

y

y

mercurial

source code management system

moira

y

y


interface to Moira database; also on Web (MIT only)

Mtools, mtoolsfm

y

y

mtools

PC/ZIP disk access utility suite

nautilus-cd-burner

y

n

 

records iso images on CD-R, CD-R/W drives

pgp

y

y

pgp

mail encryption utility; local info, quickstart guide

pkgadd

n

y


Sun package installer

pkginfo

n

y

 

lists information about installed Sun packages

pkgrm

n

y


Sun package uninstaller

ps

y

y

 

lists processes running on computer

rblanche

y

y

consult

utility for recursively listing members of mailing lists

recode

y

y

gnu

utility that converts files between character sets and "surfaces"

renew, grenew

y

y

 

renews user's Kerberos tickets and AFS tokens

rpm

y

n


Linux package installer, uninstaller

rp3, usernet

y

n

outland

network load monitors

samba

y

y

samba

client for access to SMB/CIFS/DFS resources on Windows file servers

saplogon

y

y

sapgui

access client to SAP database

setup

y

y


utility that attaches lockers, performs initialization commands

svn (Subversion)

y

y

svn

version control system

units

y

y

 

converts physical quantities between different units

weather

y

y

weather

weather information utility

wine

y

n

wine

utility for running Windows applications on Linux

xephem

y

y

xephem

interactive application that tracks and plots positions of celestial objects

zap-firefox-certs, zap-mozilla-certs

y

y

infoagents

deletes damaged or expired browser certificates

Zip utilities

y

y

 

data compression utilities

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