Research Computing Related Software available at Sheffield University
CiCS Department of Sheffield University holds and maintains a number of software licenses for the benefit of the research community.
The following table summarizes the major software items that are available on iceberg and/or can be installed on users' own workstations.
All items with PLATFORM listed as 'all' , 'iceberg', 'Linux' ,'Linux64' are available on iceberg. Other items listed as 'Windows' can usually be obtained from CiCS on a CD or DVD for installation on users' own workstation.
In addition, you may also be interested in other teaching related software that are provided on the CiCS maintained Windows workstations (i.e. Managed Windows Service).
The following table summarizes some of the commonly used software the Research Computing Group maintain and support.
| Name | On iceberg |
Cathegory | Purpose | License & Costs |
Platform |
| PGI Compilers | Yes | Compiler | Code Development | Floating/Free | iceberg, Linux64 |
| Intel Compilers | Yes | Compiler | Code Development | Floating/Free | iceberg |
| Gnu Compilers | Yes | Compiler | Code Development | Free | all |
| Salford Compilers | No | Compiler | Code Development | Site/Free | Windows |
| Exceed | No | Connectivity | Xwindows connect to iceberg | Site/Free | Windows |
| NAG | Yes | Software Library | Code Development | Free | Linux |
| IDL | Yes | Visualization | Visualization Tool | Floating/Restricted | (iceberg only) |
| GIMP | Yes | Graphics | Image viewing and editing | Free | (iceberg only) |
| Image Magick | Yes | Graphics | Image viewing and editing | Free | (iceberg only) |
| Matlab | Yes | Computing Tool | Numeric Computing | Floating/(see notes) | all |
| Maple | Yes | Computing Tool | Symbolic Computing | Site ( time-limited) | all |
| SciLab | Yes | Computing Tool | Numeric Computing | Free | all |
| LabView | No | Instrumentation | Lab Monitoring | Site | Windows |
| Ansys/Fluent/LsDyna | Yes | CFD/CAE | Engineering | Floating | Linux/Windows |
| Abaqus | Yes | Structural Code | Engineering | Floating | (iceberg only) |
| R | Yes | Statistical | Statistics | Free | Linux/Windows |
| SPSS | No | Statistical | Statistics | Site | Windows |
| SAS | No | Statistical | Statistics | Site | Windows |
| NVivo | No | Information Science | Qualitative Analysys | Site Deal (see note) | Windows |
| ArcInfo, ArcGIS, ArcView | No | Geography | GIS | Site | Windows |
| Erdas Imagine | No | Geography | Geospatial Image Processing | Site | Windows |
| Endnote | No | Bibliographic database | References etc. | Site | Windows |