SCV Software Packages

Find the package you are interested in, either by choosing the appropriate category in the sidebar or by using the find/search command in your browser to look up a package by name, and click on one of the links to the right of the package name. More detailed help is also available.

You can also Search the SCV Web for references to the package you need.

Basic System Usage 

• SCV Security and Access (logging in to SCV Systems) [SCV Help, Man Page]
• Basic Unix/X Window Help related to use of SCV packages [SCV Help]
• Black and White Printing [IT Help]
• Ethics Policy [IT Help]
• Access Protection - CHMOD [IT Help]
• Access Protection - UMASK [IT Help]
• Connecting to the Campus Network [IT Help]

Electronic Mail 

• Mutt [Man Page]
• Pine
• Mail [Man Page]
• Mail Utilities
  • Mpack MIME file encoder [Man Page]
  • Munpack MIME file decoder [Man Page]
  • GPG encryption [Man Page]

Editors 

• Emacs editor [IT Help, Man Page]
• VI editor [Man Page]
• NEdit [Man Page]

File Storage and Compression 

• Requesting that Lost/Deleted Files be Restored [SCV Help (Question 8), IT Help]
• Long-Term Archiving of Large Files with the Tape Robot [SCV Help, Man Page]
• Tar [Man Page]
• Gzip compression [Man Page]
• Compress [Man Page]
• Zip [Man Page]

(Batch System) Job Management 

• LoadLeveler batch system - IBM Blue Gene [SCV Help]
• Load Sharing Facility (LSF) batch system - IBM p655 systems [SCV Help, Man Page]
• Portable Batch System (PBS) (Open Source) - Linux Cluster [SCV Help, Man Page]
• Sun Grid Engine - Katana Cluster [SCV Help, Man Page]

Programming Languages and Compilers 

• C, GCC [Man Page, SCV pSeries Help, SCV Linux Help, SCV Blue Gene Help]
• C++, G++ [Man Page, SCV pSeries Help, SCV Linux Help, SCV Blue Gene Help]
• FORTRAN 77 [SCV pSeries Help, SCV Linux Help, SCV Blue Gene Help]
• FORTRAN 90 [SCV pSeries Help, SCV Linux Help, SCV Blue Gene Help]
• High Performance FORTRAN [External Help]
• Perl [Man Page]
• Python [Man Page]
• Java [External Help]
• Tcl [Man Page]

Message Passing Libraries 

• Message Passing Interface (MPI) [SCV Tutorial, Alliance Tutorial, External Help]

Program Debuggers/Profilers 

• DBX [IBM Help]
• GDB [IT Help, Man Page] with DDD graphical front-end [Man Page]
• IDB [Man Page, Intel Help]
• Idebug (IBM Distributed Debugger) [IBM Help]
• TotalView [SCV Blue Gene Help, SCV Katana Cluster Help, Man Page, External Tutorial]

Mathematics and Data Analysis 

• Mathematica [SCV Help, IT Help]
• MATLAB [SCV Help, IT Help]
• MATLAB PCT (Parallel Computing Toolbox) [SCV Help]
• IDL [SCV Help, SCV Tutorial]
• Maple [SCV Help]
• GAUSS [SCV Help]
• R [External Help]

Scientific and Mathematical Subroutine Libraries 

• ESSL [SCV Help, IBM Help]
• PESSL [SCV Help, IBM Help]

Scientific and Engineering Applications 

• ABAQUS [SCV Help]
• Accelrys CHARMm [SCV Help]
• Accelrys Quanta [SCV Help]
• Accelrys Discovery Studio [SCV Help]
• Gaussian and GaussView [SCV Help]

Plotting 

• Gnuplot [SCV Help, Man Page]
• Xmgrace (formerly XMGR) [SCV Help, Man Page]

Scientific Visualization 

• VTK [SCV Help]
• ParaView [SCV Help]

Modeling, Rendering and Animation 

• Autodesk Maya [SCV Help]

Graphics Programming Packages 

• OpenGL/GLUT [SCV Help]
• OpenSceneGraph [SCV Help]
• Chromium [External Help]

Drawing and Presentation Graphics 

Image Tools 

• ImageMagick suite [SCV Help]
• Gimp [SCV Help]

Windowing Software 

• X11R6 [External Help]
• Motif
• MWM [Man Page]

Web Tools 

• Firefox [SCV Help]
• Mozilla [SCV Help]
• Lynx [SCV Help, Man Page]

Usenet News 

• SLRN [Man Page]

Document Processing 

• TeX [IT Help, Man Page]
• LaTex [IT Help, Man Page]
• Ghostview [Man Page]
• Acroread [External Help]

Reference Materials 

• Webster Dictionary Utility [Man Page]
• Oxford English Dictionary [External Help]
• Encyclopedia Britannica Online (BU Only)

File Downloading 

• SCP [SCV Help, Man Page]
• FTP [SCV Help, Man Page]

Additional Software available on the ACS Cluster