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Lab Macs
General
There are eight iMacs in the Astronomy Library (Pupin 1402). They are for use by lab students, visitors and all members of the department. In addition to use as interactive computers, these computers are connected to the Xgrid so their spare cycles are not wasted.
Accounts
There is a "lab" account for use by lab students with several programs/features disabled, as well as a "guest" account with unfettered access to the software. For a password to either of these accounts, please ask Cameron (or ask around).
Printing
Each of the computers can print to moth, the black and white printer in the adjacent room (Pupin 1407).
File Storage
While these computers each have ~100 GB of free space, it is not recommended that you store precious data on them, because they will be wiped from time to time. If you have long-term data storage needs on them, please contact Cameron.
Software
Each of the computers should be identical in terms of software and functionality.
| Software | Version | Purpose |
| OS X Tiger | 10.4.11 | Operating System |
| Parallels | Program for allowing other OSs to be run as subprocesses | |
| Microsoft Windows XP | Operating System | |
| Microsoft Office for Mac | Suite of Word, Excel and Powerpoint | |
| IDL | Proprietary program for data manipulation | |
| IDL: Markwardt Library | Extra IDL Astronomy Functionality | |
| IDL: astron Library | Extra IDL Astronomy Functionality | |
| IDL: idlutils Library | ||
| IDL: idlspec2d Library | ||
| IDL: photoop Library | ||
| IDL: kcorrect Library | ||
| Perl | Excellent, free programming language | |
| Python | 2.5.2 | Excellent, free programming language |
| Python:NumPy Module | 1.2.0 | Module adding arrays and other scientific extensions |
| Python:Matplotlib Module | 0.98.3 | Module adding plotting functions |
| Starry Night Orion Edition | Proprietary program for visualizing the sky at any date/time | |
| TeTeX | ||
| Firefox | ||
| NeoOffice | ||
| OpenOffice | ||
| x11 Window Environment | ||
| Xcode Tools (gcc, g++) | ||
| ImageMagick | ||
| HPC g77 | ||
| HPC gfortran | ||
| HPC gcc | ||
| g95 | ||
| vim | ||
| emacs | ||
| xemacs | ||
| ghostview | ||
| gimp | ||
| Adobe Reader | ||
| SciSoft | ||
| IRAF | ||
| SExtractor | ||
| DS9 | ||
| Stellarium | Free program for visualizing the sky at any date/time | |
| Celestia | Free program for visualizing the sky at any date/time | |
| TexShop | LaTeX GUI and Suite | |
| Subversion | ||
| CLEA Education Exercises | Free, educational astronomical exercises for lab students | |
If you see any software missing that you would like installed on these computers, please contact Cameron.
