Desktop Software
A lot of HPC-related software is available for desktop use. Here's a small sampling of open source software we can recommend for use on your laptop or workstation.
| Open Source Desktop HPC software | ||
|---|---|---|
| Package | OS | Description |
| Blender | Win OSX Linux |
Professional 3D creation suite for modeling and rendering; complex data visualization; interactive 3D applications; and non-linear video rendering and compositing. |
| Gnuplot | Win OSX Linux |
Command-line driven, scriptable scientific plotting system with extensive support for publication-quality 2D and 3D data and function visualization. |
| GRASS | Win OSX Linux |
A software suite used for geospatial data management and analysis, image processing, graphics and maps production, spatial modeling, and visualization. |
| Octave | Win OSX Linux |
Interactive numerical computing environment for solving linear and nonlinear problems, and for performing other numerical experiments using a language that is mostly compatible with Matlab. |
| OpenFOAM | Win OSX Linux |
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) software package with an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to acoustics, solid mechanics and electromagnetics. |
| ParaVIEW | Win OSX Linux |
Data analysis and visualization application for very big data sets. Quickly build visualizations to analyze data using qualitative and quantitative techniques. The data exploration can be done in 3D interactively or programmatically. |
| Python | Win OSX Linux |
Widely used general-purpose, high-level dynamic programming language. It has extensive support for data analysis, numerical computation, graphics and system management, and is suitable for both batch and interactive use. |
| R | Win OSX Linux |
A popular language and software environment for statistical computing and graphics. |
We primarily recommend free and open source software if available and appropriate, but we also provide licensed HPC software for the desktop. This software is provided and maintained by the IT section, and links will go the IT site. For details on how to obtain and install this software, please see the IT section page.
| Licensed Desktop HPC software | ||
|---|---|---|
| Package | OS | Description |
| Amira - Installation |
Win OSX Linux |
Software platform for visualizing, manipulating, and understanding data from computed tomography, microscopy, MRI, and many other imaging modalities. |
| ArcGIS - Installation |
Win | A geographic information system (GIS) for working with maps and geographic information. |
| AutoCAD | Win OSX |
A computer-aided design (CAD) and drafting software application. |
| ChemOffice Professional | Win OSX |
Integrated suite of productivity tools that enables to capture, store, retrieve and a share data and information on compounds, reactions, materials and their properties. |
| COMSOL - Installation |
Win OSX Linux |
Software to model and simulate any physics-based system. |
| CrystalWave | Win | CAD environment for the layout, design and optimisation of integrated optics components, which has been optimised for the modelling of photonic crystals structures (2D and 3D lattices). |
| FIMMWAVE - Install |
Win | A suite of robust and fully vectorial mode solvers for 2D+Z waveguide structures. |
| Gold | Win Linux |
Software for protein-ligand docking. |
| GraphPad Prism - Request - Activation |
Win OSX |
Scientific graphing, comprehensive curve fitting (nonlinear regression), understandable statistics, and data organization. |
| IDL - Installation |
Win OSX Linux |
A programming language used for data analysis. |
| IGOR Pro - Installation |
Win OSX |
Interactive software environment for experimentation with scientific and engineering data and for the production of publication-quality graphs and page layouts. |
| Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) | Win OSX Linux |
Analyze data derived from expression and SNP microarrays, proteomics experiments, and small-scale experiments that generate gene lists. |
| Intel Parallel Studio XE 2017 | OSX Linux |
Software development tools. |
| Labview - Installation - Online Training |
Win OSX Linux |
Systems engineering software for applications that require test, measurement, and control with rapid access to hardware and data insights. |
| Materials Studio - Installation |
Win | Software system for simulating and modeling materials. |
| Mathematica - Installation - Language setting |
Win OSX Linux |
Computational software program used in many scientific, engineering, mathematical and computing fields, based on symbolic mathematics. |
| MATLAB For off-site use - Installation |
Win OSX Linux |
High-level language and interactive environment to explore and visualize ideas in signal and image processing, communications, control systems, and computational finance. |
| MATLAB Concurrent - Installation |
Win OSX Linux |
High-level language and interactive environment to explore and visualize ideas in signal and image processing, communications, control systems, and computational finance. |
| MetaMorph - Request |
Win | Automated microscope acquisition, device control, and image analysis. |
| OmniSim | Win | Simulation package for the design and optimisation of nano-photonic and plasmonic devices. |
| Origin Pro | Win | Interactive scientific graphing and data analysis. |
| PRIMER-E - Request |
Win | Analyse ecological data, or any other data that benefits from a safe non parametric approach |
| Sigmaplot | Win | Plotting application. |
| SolidWorks - Installation |
Win | A solid modeling computer-aided design (CAD) and computer-aided engineering (CAE) system. |
| SPSS Statistics - Installation |
Win OSX |
A statistics application. |