Available Research Computing Software

Overview

Students have access to many software titles that can help in their research computing tasks.  

Details / Instructions

Computer Science:

• Xcode: Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for MacOS
  https://developer.apple.com/xcode/
• BlueJ: Java IDE
  https://www.bluej.org/
• Eclipse: IDE
  https://www.eclipse.org/downloads/
• Geany: Text editor and basic IDE
  https://www.geany.org/download/
• jGrasp: An Integrated Development Environment with Visualizations for Improving Software Comprehensibility
  https://spider.eng.auburn.edu/user-cgi/grasp/grasp.pl?;dl=download_jgrasp.html
• Netbeans: IDE
  https://netbeans.apache.org/download/index.html
• Unity Player: Cross-platform game engine
  https://store.unity.com/?_ga=2.195349484.1920438730.1587149854-1901305773.1587149854#plans-individual
• AdoptOpenJDK: Java Development Kit
  https://adoptopenjdk.net/

Statistics:

• R: Software environment for statistical computing and graphics
  https://cran.r-project.org/mirrors.html
• RStudio: IDE for R
  https://rstudio.com/products/rstudio/download/#download
• Python: General-purpose programming language
  https://www.python.org/downloads/
• RapidMiner: Data Science software platform
  https://rapidminer.com/get-started-educational/

Chemistry/Biology:

• JMOL: Molecular modeling
  http://jmol.sourceforge.net/download/
• Logger Lite​​​​​​​: Science and Math data collection
  https://www.vernier.com/downloads/logger-lite-updates/

Data Visualization/Processing

• ImageJ: Java-based image processing
  https://imagej.nih.gov/ij/download.html
• GIMP: Cross-platform image editor
  https://www.gimp.org/downloads/
• IrfanView: Image viewer, editor, organizer and converter
  https://www.irfanview.com/main_download_engl.htm

Utilities

• Cyberduck: Open-source client for FTP and SFTP, WebDAV, and cloud storage
  https://cyberduck.io/download/
• Cygwin: Unix-like environment running natively on Windows
  https://cygwin.com/install.html
• Emacs: Text editor
  https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html
• Gvim: Text editor
  https://www.vim.org/download.php
• Visual Studio: IDE for Android, iOS, Windows, web, and cloud
  https://visualstudio.microsoft.com/thank-you-downloading-visual-studio/?sku=Community&rel=16
• Visual Studio Code: Open-source code editor
  https://code.visualstudio.com/download
• MySQL Workbench CE: Visual database design tool​​​​​​​
  https://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/
• Notepad ++: Text and source code editor
  https://notepad-plus-plus.org/downloads/
• PuTTY: Terminal emulator, serial console and network file transfer application
  https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/latest.html
• WinSCP: SFTP, FTP, WebDAV, Amazon S3 and SCP client for Microsoft Windows
  https://winscp.net/eng/download.php
• Sublime Text: Cross-platform source code editor
  https://www.sublimetext.com/3

See Also

Standard Classroom and Computer Lab Software: https://spidertechnet.richmond.edu/TDClient/1955/Portal/KB/ArticleDet?ID=89912