Computing

Systems
description of our hardware
Applications
Unix applications software
Calclabs
our instructional systems
Computing Help Pages
Misc. Help Topics - access restricted to valid user or Math Computers
Diskspace Information
Information on managing your disk space [access restricted]
Fighting Spam
Information on combating junk mail [access restricted]
Forwarding E-Mail
How to send your e-mail to another address
Virus Information
Information on current computer viruses
Webmail
Accessing your e-mail via the web [access restricted]
Admin Pages
admin access only
Password Update
Change your existing Math Department Linux/Unix Password

Software on the Unix Systems

Symbolic Math Packages

Typesetting

Spreadsheet

Numerical

  • BLAS - Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms
  • BLACS - Basic Linear Algebra Communication Subprograms
  • GAP - Groups, Algorithms, and Programming (L)
  • MPI - Message Passing Interface
  • LAPACK - Linear Algebra PACKage
    (succesor to LINPACK and EISPACK)
  • ScaLaPACK - Scalable LAPACK
  • Singular and Plural - Polynomial computer algebra system
  • TNT - Template Numerical Toolkit
    (successor to Lapack++, Sparselib++, IML++, MV++)
  • PETSc - Portable, Extensible Toolkit for Scientific Computation
  • Documentation for these libraries (under construction)

Editors

  • Nedit. Motif mouse driven editor. Builtin help. (A)
  • asedit. Motif mouse driven editor. Builtin help. (S)
  • dtpad. Motif (CDE) mouse driven editor. Builtin help. (S)
  • pico. Easy to use terminal editor. Builtin help. (A)
  • emacs. Sophisticated terminal and X editor. Builtin help and tutorial. (A)
  • vi. Standard Unix editor. (A)
  • Applix Anyware HTML Author. (S,L)

E-mail

Our configuration allows e-mail to be read on any of the central Unix systems.

  • Thunderbird The next generation of Mozilla Mail. (A)
  • Mozilla Mail. (A)
  • Netscape. (A)
  • dtmail. Motif (CDE), mouse driven. Easy to use. (S)
  • Mailtool. OpenLook, mouse driven. Easy to use. (S)
  • TkRat. Based on Tk toolkit for X. Easy to use. Full of Features. (S,L)
  • Kmail. KDE. Easy to use. (A)
  • Pine. Terminal-based. Very easy to use. (A)
  • Mail. Terminal-based. Standard Unix mail handler. (A)
  • How to handle mail while on vacation.
  • How to delete attachments in Pine without deleting the message.

Graphics

  • xmgr - Point and click plots. (S)
  • plotmtv - multi-purpose plotting tool. (S)
  • xfig - Figure drawing. (S)
  • geomview Geometry viewer. (S)
  • Applix Graphics - Figure drawing. (S,L)
  • xpaint - graphics program to edit many graphic types including gif, tiff, bmp, etc. (S,L)
  • xv - graphics viewer of several graphics types including jpg, gif, bmp, etc. (S,L)
  • gimp - sophisticated image manipulation. (S,L)
  • imagetool - OpenLook image viewer. (S)
  • sdtimage - Motif (CDE) image viewer. (S)
  • iconedit - OpenLook icon editor. (S)
  • dticon - Motif (CDE) icon editor. (S)
  • kview - KDE image viewer. (L)

WWW Browsers

  • Firefox (S,L)
  • Mozilla (S,L)
  • Netscape (S,L)
  • Mosaic (S)
  • HotJava (S)
  • Lynx - text based browser suitable for remote logins. (S,L)
  • wget - quick download of single files. (S,L)

News Readers

The USENET news is read from the campus server, news.tamu.edu.
  • trn. Terminal based. Standard news reader. (S)
  • xrn. Motif, mouse driven. Easy to use, but has a "busy" appearance. (S)
  • GNUs. Emacs-based. Start with emacs -f gnus. (S)
  • Mosaic and Netscape both have news capabilities. (S)

Miscellaneous

  • Java Developer Kit (S)
  • IMAP - remote mail access
  • mrolo - rolodex. (S)
  • xmaddressbook - address book. (S)
  • netscape - address book. (S)
  • xwebster - dictionary. (S)
  • cm - OpenLook calendar manager. (S)
  • dtcm - Motif (CDE) calendar manager. (S)
  • korganizer - KDE calendar manager. (L)
  • calctool - OpenLook calculator. (S)
  • dtcalc - Motif (CDE) calculator. (S)
  • kcalc - KDE calculator. (L)
  • xcalc - Simple X calculator. (S,L)
  • ghostview - Postscript previewer. (S,L)
  • filemgr - OpenLook file manager. (S)
  • dtfile - Motif (CDE) file manager. (S)
  • xdir - Motif file manager with FTP capabilities. (S,L)
  • xman - Unix man page viewer for X. (S,L)
  • Network Queueing System (NQS). Used to submit long running or large programs for batch processing. (S)

Legend

(A) Available on all systems.
(L) Available on all Linux servers.
(S) Available on all Sun servers.
(W) Available on all Linux workstations.

Last update: 27Jul2005 pws