The School of Physics and Astronomy has site licenses for some useful software packages, and other licenses are available campus-wide at no cost. Some of the highlights are:

• The University has a campuswide agreement for Windows upgrades, and for Microsoft Office for Windows or Mac.
• The University of Minnesota has a campus-wide license for Symantec Antivirus for both Windows and Macintosh.
• The College of Science and Engineering licenses Mathematica, for Windows, Macintosh, and many Unix platforms, valid for any university-owned computer within the department.
• We have a College-wide license for Matlab, for Windows, Mac OS and Unix.
• The College also licensed LabView both for instructional and research use.
• We participate with some other departments in a license for Origin

For additional Microsoft products not covered under the campus agreement, check the Microsoft Academic Select program, offered through OIT.

Some software such as Symantec Antivirus, and Windows and Office upgrades, may be available to faculty, staff or currently-registered students. Please check the UTools web site for more information:

• http://www.oit.umn.edu/utools/index.htm

Mathematica and Matlab are available to undergraduate and graduate students in the Institute of Technology. More details at:

• https://wwws.cs.umn.edu/download_software/mathematica
• https://wwws.cs.umn.edu/matlab/student/

IT Labs also has a subscription to MSDNAA (Microsoft Developers Network Academic Alliance). For details on all resources available through ITLabs, visit their web site:

• http://www.itlabs.umn.edu/

Most large software packages can be downloaded from the downloads area of the web site. You have to be logged in to the site as an internal user of the department to access this area. Most packages are available as ISO images, ready to be burned to CD.

• Secure Shell (SSH)
• IDL
• X Windows
• TeX and LaTeX