Research Computing

Application Specific Documentation

Documentation for many software packages is now delivered as web pages. This may be in addition to traditional man pages or on-line help accessible within the application. The following list supplies links to those packages for which the documentation is supplied as HTML, and stored in AFS. For a more complete list of software provided on the Research Computing systems, see the Research Computing main pages.

Data Visualization and Graphics

• Data Explorer (dx) Data Visualization Package
• IDL
• MATLAB Software Downloads (restricted)
• Gnuplot graphing package
• PGPlot graphing package
• sm graphing package

Statistics

• SAS v9 (at sas.com)
• SAS v8 (local)
• SAS v8 (local; with search function). The search page uses a signed java applet that may not work on all browsers.
• SAS/GIS (local)

Chemistry/Biochemistry

• Q-Chem v2.1 (PDF)
• InsightII (Accelrys)

Compilers and other Software Development Tools

• Solaris FORTE developer tools
• AIX C/C++ compiler
• AIX Fortran 77/90 compiler

Document Preparation

• TeX Documentation

Mail and Calendar Tools

• Corporate Time v5.02
• Pine Mailer Technical Documentation

Miscellaneous

• Tiny Fugue MOO/MUD client
• SPRNG Parallel Random Number Generator

See also Operating System documentation.

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