https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/ 2026-04-15T11:18:56+00:00 https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/ https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/_media/wiki/dokuwiki.svg text/html 2016-02-24T17:34:50+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/computing/department/unix/software/easybuild?rev=1456335290&do=diff EasyBuild EasyBuild is a framework used to automatically build software and make it available as modules. Many of our modules are provided via EasyBuild, but it can also be used to create new modules for personal (or group) use. * <https://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/> Quick start text/html 2015-11-25T16:50:18+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/computing/department/unix/software/idl?rev=1448470218&do=diff IDL on Physics linux systems IDL is supported on the linux cluster primarily for specific research groups in Astronomy and Cosmology. A few licenses are also provided by Physics and Astronomy for general use. To use IDL, you first need to load the software module: text/html 2015-09-10T00:25:15+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/computing/department/unix/software/modules?rev=1441844715&do=diff Environment Modules Environment Modules is a system to manage what software is loaded into your environment. It includes the ability to list all software packages currently available in the Modules system, load new software package into your environment, list all loaded software packages, and unload packages. text/html 2015-09-01T19:50:04+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/computing/department/unix/software/scisoft?rev=1441137004&do=diff Scisoft Scisoft is a collection of astronomical software utilities from ESO. We have two options to access it * scisoft module * direct access Unfortunately each has some caveats. The main one is that initializing scisoft modifies your environment extensively, and can cause problems with many other programs. For this reason we no longer attempt to initialize it automatically for you during login, and we recommend you don't blindly do so yourself in your own login scripts. text/html 2015-08-04T16:54:49+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/computing/department/unix/software/texlive?rev=1438707289&do=diff More Information unix index TeX and LaTeX TeX and LaTeX is a mathematical computer typesetting system much used for scientific documents. To use the system effectively, you probably have to refer to one of the reference manuals. The LaTeX “bible” has always been text/html 2015-08-04T16:55:26+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://zzz.physics.umn.edu/computing/department/unix/software/ureka?rev=1438707326&do=diff Ureka Ureka is a collection of useful astronomy software that is generally centered around Python and IRAF. The software provides everything you need to run the data reduction packages provided by STScI and Gemini. A list of included packages is available