Stanford University School of Earth Science

G.R.I.D Lab Supported Computer Software

Last revision October 19, 2009

 

Software is installed on the computers in the Mitchell A-59 G.R.I.D. lab to support individual research and learning. Major programs with potential for wide use are purchased by the School. Send suggestions for installing additional useful software programs to the G.R.I.D. lab managers.

 

Additional software appropriate for teaching purposes is installed on the Mitchell A-65 teaching cluster computers.

 

The G.R.I.D. lab contains three types of computers: a Dell PC (Amerigo) that runs Windows XP; an Apple PowerMac G5 (Saxton) that runs Mac OS X 10.5; and four Apple iMacs (Jode, Mauro, Mercator, and Beck) that run both the Windows XP and Mac OS X 10.5 operating systems (hold down OPTION key while restarting to select the desired operating system).

 

This variety of computers allows the lab to host software designed for either Windows or Mac OS X, plus many open-source programs written for Unix or Linux that can be compiled on Mac OS X.

 

Each operating system in the lab has an identical software set (except as noted in the table). Some programs have licenses that limit the number of simultaneous users (shown in parentheses). These licenses are shared with the computers in the Mitchell A-65 teaching cluster. Checkboxes in the table show whether each program runs under Windows XP, Mac OS X, or both.

 

 

Installed under: Software Program
  Windows     Mac OS X    
  Graphics, Science, Math, Image Processing and Visualization:
X X Adobe Design Premium Creative Suite 4 v14.0.0: InDesign, PhotoShop Extended, Illustrator, Flash Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Acrobat Pro
  X iLife '08: iPhoto, iMovie, iDVD - multimedia creation
X X Matlab R2009a (except not available on Saxton) (20 licenses) - mathematical modeling and analysis with these additional modules (# of licenses):
Communications Toolbox (10), Control System Toolbox (10), Financial Toolbox (10), Fuzzy Logic Toolbox (10), Genetic Algorithm and Direct Search Toolbox (10), Image Processing Toolbox (10), MATLAB compiler (10), Mapping Toolbox (10), Neural Network Toolbox (10), Optimization Toolbox (10), Parallel Computing Toolbox (10), Partial Differential Equation Toolbox (10), Signal Processing Blockset (10), Signal Processing Toolbox (20), Simulink (10), Simulink Control Design (10), Spline Toolbox (10), Statistics Toolbox (20), Symbolic Math Toolbox (10), System Identification Toolbox (10), Wavelet Toolbox (10)
X X Comsol MultiPhysics v3.5a (15 licenses) - provides the following science modules for Matlab:
AC/DC, Acoustics, Chemical Engineering, Earth Science, Reaction Engineering, RF, and Structural Mechanics
X X R v2.9.2 - statistical data analysis
X   ArcGIS Workstation v9.3sp1 - geographical information system (please see the Known Problems page)
X   GeoDA v0.9.5-I - geospatial data analysis
X X Google Earth v5.0 - terrain visualization
X   ENVI v4.3 and IDL v6.3 (20 licenses) - remote sensing image visualization and analysis
  Programming and Modeling Languages:
  X Xcode 3 - C compiler and development environment
  X gfortran - GNU Fortran compiler (run from Terminal application)
X X Python (v2.1, v2.4R, and v2.5 on Windows; v2.5.1 on Mac)
X X NetLogo v4.0.4 - Programmable modeling environment
  Productivity Applications and Utilities:
X X Kerberos client - login to Stanford network services
X X Ssh remote logins (SecureCRT v6 on Windows - see Known Problems page, Leland SSH on Mac)
X X Sftp file transfers (SecureFX v6 on Windows - see Known Problems page, Fetch v5.5 on Mac)
X X X Window server (Xming v6.9.0.31 on Windows, built-in for Mac)
X X Microsoft Office - v2007 for Windows, v2008 for Mac - includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Access (Windows only)
X X Adobe Reader v9.1.3 - PDF viewer
X X Adobe Flash Player v10
X X Adobe Shockwave Player v11.5
X X Adobe Air player v1.52
X X QuickTime v7.6
X   Ghostgum/GSview v4.9 and GhostScript v8.64 - PostScript viewer
  X Preview - PDF, PostScript, and graphics viewer
X X Mozilla Firefox v3.5 - web browser
X   Internet Explorer v7 - web browser
  X Safari v4 - web browser
X   Windows Media Player v11
  X Flip4Mac Player - Windows media player for Mac
X   VideoLAN VLC media player v0.8.6i
X X Sophos Anti-Virus (v7.6.10 on Windows, v7.0.5 on Mac)
X X CD/DVD burning (built-in to operating system, plus Roxio Creator on Amerigo)
X X Zip archive handling (ZipGenius v6.1 on Windows, built-in on Mac)
X iChat (iMacs only - video conferencing with built-in webcam)
X X Screen snapshot capture (MWSnap 3.0.7 on Windows, built-in on Mac)
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