mailx
Mailx is an interactive message processing system for electronic mail. The mailx utility provides a flexible environment for read, saving, deleting and responding to electronic messages.
· Command: mailx
· Man Pages: mailx
xprint
Utility that allows printing to any printer maintained by CIS on the TAMU campus.
· Command: xprint
· Man Pages: xprint, jde, forms
gzip
The GNU zip compression utilitiew. The gzip utilities allow users to compress files and manipulate compressed files. They provide similar functionality to the UNIX compress command; however, gzip typically provides better compression.
· Command: gzip, gunzip, gzcat, gzdiff, gzgrep, gzmore, gznew, gzforce, gzexe, gzcmp
· Man Pages: gzip
a2ps
a2ps formats text files for printing on postscript printers. a2ps has several formatting options available, including page borders, line numbering, headers, etc. The output of a2ps is typically piped directly to the printer. This can be accomplished using the following command:
% a2ps filename | lp
· Command: a2ps
· Man Pages: a2ps
trn
Trn is a text-based newsreader. Note that due to a software bug, this newsreader cannot be used to post articles.
· Command: trn
· Man Pages: trn
DIF3D
DIF3D is a finite difference and nodal diffusion code that will solve one-, two-, and three-dimensional diffusion problems on a variety of logical spatial mesh.
· Command: dif3d.x
· Documentation: User's Manual available in Zach-60A
MCNP
MCNP is a general-purpose Monte Carlo code that can be used for neutron, photon, electron and coupled neutron/photon/electron transport, including the capability to calculate eigenvalues for critical systems. The code treats and arbitrary three-dimensional configuration of materials using point-wise cross section data.
· Command:
o mcnp (for serial execution)
o mcnp.sunmp (for parallel execution using PVM on the SUNMP architecture)
o mcnp.sun4sol2 (for parallel execution using PVM on the SUN4SOL2 architecture)
· Documentation: User's Manual available in Zach-60A
CASMO-3
CASMO-3 is a multi-group two-dimensional transport theory code for burnup calculation on BWR and PWR assemblies or simple pin cells. The code handles a geometry consisting of cylindrical fuel rods of varying composition in a square pitch array with allowance for fuel rods loaded with gadolinium, burnable absorber rods, cluster control rods, in-core instrument channels, water gaps, boron steel curtains and cruciform control rods in the regions separating fuel assemblies. Typical fuel storage rack geometries can also be handled.
· Command: c3
· Documentation: User's Manual available in Zach-2AB
SIMULATE-3
SIMULATE-3 is an advanced two-group nodal code for the analysis of both PWR's and BWR's. The code is based on the QPANDA neutronics model which employs fourth order polynomial representations of the intranodal flux distributions in both the fast and thermal groups.
· Command: s3
· Documentation: User's Manual available in Zach-2AB
TABLES-3
TABLES-3 is a data processing code that links CASMO to SIMULATE. The code processes two-group cross sections, discontinuity factors, fission product data, etc. TABLES reads the CASMO card image files and produces a master binary library in the format required by SIMULATE.
· Command: t3
· Documentation: User's Manual available in Zach-2AB
Netscape
The Netscape web browser from Netscape Communications Corp.
· Command: netscape
· Documentation: none
Maple VI
Maple is an interactive, symbolic, numerical and graphical computation and programming pagackage capable of plotting two- and three-dimensional surfaces.
· Command:
o maple (for text-based interface)
o xmaple (for x-window interface)
· Man Page: maple
f77
The SunSoft FORTRAN compiler is f77. This command translates source code in the FORTRAN language to an executable file. It is also capable of auto-parallelization, debugging, and profiling through a variety of options.
· Command: f77
· Man Page: f77
cc
The SunSoft C compiler is cc. This command translates source code in the ANSI C programming language to an executable file. It is also capable of preprocessing, optimization, profiling, and link editing.
· Command: cc
· Man Page: cc
CC
The SunSoft C++ compilation system is CC. This command translates source code in the C++ programming language to an executable file. It is also capable of preprocessing, optimization, profiling, and link editing.
· Command: CC
· Man Page: CC
gcc
Gcc is the GNU C compiler, a full-featured, public domain compiler for producing executables from source code written in the C programming language.
· Command: gcc
· Man Page: gcc
Lapack
Lapack is a transportable library of Fortran 77 subroutines for solving the most common problems in numerical linear algebra, systems of linear equations, linear least squares problems, eigenvalue problems, and singular value problems.
· Libraries: libblas.a, liblapack.a
· Man Page: LAPACK
· Documentation: Full manual available in Zach-60A
Perl
The Perl programming package. Perl is an interpreted language optimized for scanning arbitrary text files, extracting information from those text files, and printing reports based on that information.
· Command: perl
· Documentation: perl
Bison
Bison is a project parser generator similar to yacc, and is upwardly compatible with yacc input files.
· Command: bison
· Documentation: bison
ImageMagick
ImageMagick is an interactive package for displaying and manipulating graphic images. ImageMagick includes tool for image conversion, annotation, composing, animation, and montage creation. ImageMagick can read and convert between many of the more popular image formats.
· Command: display
· Man Page: ImageMagick
Xv
Xv in an interactive image display and manipulation program for the X Windows system.
· Command: xv
· Man Page: xv
Xmgr
Xmgr is a general purpose XY plotting tool capable of user defined scaling, tick marks, labels, symbols, line styles, and colors. Xmgr can manipulate large datasets and perform polynomial regressions, splines, running averages, DFT/FFT, and cross/auto-correlation. Hard-copy features support PostScript, HP-GL, and FrameMaker format.
· Command: xmgr
· On-Line Help: xmgr
· Man Page: Full manual available in Zach-60A
Spyglass Plot
Spyglass Plot is a two-dimensional graphical analysis package that can create and manipulate line, double-y, scatter, number scatter, error bar plots, as well as more advanced layered plots. Plot can import large datasets and can export HDF, EPS, and ASCII files. Plot also allows advanced dataset operations such as curve fitting, and function generation. Plot also includes a scripting language allowing automation of importing and plotting functions.
· Command: Plot
· Man Page: Full manual available in Zach-60A
Spyglass Transform
Spyglass Transform is a three-dimensional graphical analysis package that utilizes color raster imaging, along with a spreadsheet-like display of the numbers, surface plots, vector plots, contour plots, and interactive line graphing to investigate your data. Transform can read data in either ASCII or binary form or import from several standard formats.
· Command: Transform
· Man Page: Full manual available in Zach-60A
Xfig
Xfig is a menu-driven x-windows drawing package that allows the user to draw and manipulate objects interactively.
· Command: xfig
· Man Page: xfig
Ghostscript
Ghostscript is a powerful programming language similar to Adobe Systems' Postscript (tm) language. Ghostscript is used primarily for advanced text and graphics processing.
· Command: gs
· Man Page: gs
Ghostview
Ghostview provides an X11 interface for the ghostscript interpreter. Ghostview provides a postscript previewer function along with many more advanced features.
· Command: ghostview
· Man Page: ghostview
PVM: Parallel Virtual Machine
PVM is a software system that enables a collection of heterogeneous computers to be used as a coherent and flexible concurrent computational resource. The individual computers may be shared- or local-memory multiprocessors, vector supercomputers, specialized graphics engines, or scalar workstations, that may be interconnected by a variety of networks, such as ethernet or FDDI. User programs written in C, C++ or FORTRAN access PVM through library routines.
· Command: pvm, pvmd, aimk, pvmgetarch
· Man Pages: pvm, pvmd3, aimk, pvm_intro
· On-Line Help: pvm3
Emacs
The GNU emacs text editor.
· Command: emacs
· Man Page: emacs
· HTML Manual: http://www.nbi.dk/SOFTWARE/emacs/emacs_toc.html
· HTML FAQ: http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/hypertext/faq/usenet/GNU-Emacs-FAQ/top.html
Hierarchial Data Format (HDF) Library and Utilities
HDF is a multi-object file format that facilitates the transfer of various types of scientific data between machines and operating systems. The HDF library includes Fortran and C calling interfaces for storing and retrieving compressed or uncompress 8-bin and 24-bit raster images with palettes, n-dimensional scientific datasets, and binary tables. Utilities for the manipulation of HDF datasets and images are also included.
· Library: libdf.a
· Utilities: ristosds, r8tohdf, hdfcomp, r24hdf8,hdf24hdf8, paltohdf, hdftopal
· Man Page: hdf