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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.
| Type | Software | Version | Purpose |
| Operating System | OS X Tiger | 10.4.11 | Operating System |
| Parallels | Build 3214 | Program for allowing other OSs to be run as subprocesses | |
| Microsoft Windows XP | Windows XP SP3 | Operating System | |
| Word Processing | Microsoft Office for Mac | 2004 11.5.0 | Suite of Word, Excel and Powerpoint |
| NeoOffice | 2.2.5 Patch 2 | ||
| OpenOffice | 3.0.0 | ||
| TexShop | 2.18 | LaTeX GUI and Suite | |
| TeTeX | 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 | ||
| Images | ImageMagick | ||
| ghostview | 3.6.1 | ||
| gimp | 1.2.5 | ||
| DS9 | 5.3 | ||
| Programming | Perl | 5.8.6 | 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 | |
| HPC g77 | 3.4 | ||
| HPC gfortran | |||
| HPC gcc | 4.0.1 | ||
| g95 | 0.91 | ||
| Subversion | 1.5.3 | ||
| Xcode Tools (gcc, g++) | |||
| IDL | 7.0.4 | Proprietary program for data manipulation | |
| IDL: Markwardt Library | June 3rd, 2008 | Extra IDL Astronomy Functionality | |
| IDL: astron Library | March 2008 | Extra IDL Astronomy Functionality | |
| IDL: idlutils Library | 5.2.0 | ||
| IDL: idlspec2d Library | 5.2.0 | ||
| IDL: kcorrect Library | 4.1.4 | ||
| Sky Visualization | Starry Night Orion Edition | 6.2.3 | Proprietary program for visualizing the sky at any date/time |
| Stellarium | 0.10.0 | Free program for visualizing the sky at any date/time | |
| Celestia | 1.5.1 | Free program for visualizing the sky at any date/time | |
| Astronomy Tools | IRAF | ||
| SExtractor | 2.5.0 | ||
| SciSoft | (Currently partially broken) | ||
| Educational | CLEA Education Exercises | October 2008 | Free, educational astronomical exercises for lab students |
| Miscellany | Firefox | 3.0.3 | |
| x11 Window Environment | 1.1.3 - XFree86 4.4.0 | ||
| vim | 6.2 | ||
| emacs | 21.2.1 | ||
| xemacs | 21.4 | ||
| Adobe Reader | 9.0.0 | ||
If you see any software missing that you would like installed on these computers, or if you encounter problems with the installed software, please contact Cameron.
