Locally installed applications

We have installed a variety of additional packages on the NIS server. These are accessible to all clients over the network through the /home/local directories. A clists of installed packages follows:

• idl. A powerful interpreted language with graphical capabilities. This is a licensed product. Our license allows ten people, anywhere on the cluster, to be running it at a given time.

• IRAF. A standard astronomical image processing package. Set it up before using the first time with the mkiraf command. Start it up with the cl command.

• STSDAS/TABLES. Add-ons to the IRAF package for work related to HST

• AIPS. Another standard astronomical image processing package, with widespread use in the radio community. If you want to use AIPS, you will need to have some special setup on your computer - see a system administrator.

• xvista. Another astronomical image processing package, distributed worldwide by Jon Holtzman of NMSU. Take advantage of the local expertise!

• soffice: link to the OpenOffice suite, which has text processing, presentations, spreadsheet, etc, i.e. an open source alternative to Microsoft Office that runs on the Linux platform (and reads Microsoft files).

• Supermongo. Another plotting package based on the original Mongo but with significant enhancements. Start it up with the sm command.

• Lick Mongo. A plotting package based on the original Mongo by John Tonry, with very similar usage. Start it up with the lmongo command. Also provides a subroutine library which can be linked to using -lmongo

• xemacs. A powerful screen based editor.

• skycalendar/skycalc. Programs for making observing calendars (skycalendar) and computing airmass tables, etc. for astronomical observations (skycalc)

• xv: A package for viewing images in a wide variety of formats, doing some simple image manipulation, grabbing images from the screen, etc

• acroread. Program to read Adobe PDF format files.

• gifmerge. Program to take a set of individual GIF format files and combine them into a single animated GIF file.

• Numerical Recipes library. Provides many numerical subroutines and functions. See the book by Press et al. The routines are provided through an object library. Use -lrecipes_f for f77/g77, -lrecipes_c for c routines.

• slalib. Subroutine library which provides a wide variety of tasks used for making astronomical observations (e.g., airmass, sidereal time, etc.)

• xanim. Package which display movies in a variety of formats

• latex2html. Package which converts LaTeX files into HTML files.

Table of packages, versions, links to sources/docs, update dates, is a TBD item for this manual....

Package	Installed version	Install date	Source	Last date checked	Current version
IRAF and related packages
IRAF	2.11-3
CTIO
MSCRED	3.2.3
STSDAS	22
TABLES	22
STSCI APT/VTT	1210
GMS
SEA
Text processing LaTeX2html	2K.1beta
OpenOffice	3.0
SDSS software Plotting software gnuplot	3.7
pgplot	5.2.0
supermongo	2.4.1
Astronomical software cfitsio
AIPS
difmap
ds9
hstphot
saoimage	1.24
skycal	4.1
tinytim	6.0
other gifmerge
printpro	4.2.1
slalib
xanim	2.80.1