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This page is an introduction to the computer setup here in Lexington.

Cloud9

Cloud9 is a dual core Xeon with a large Raid 5 drive.  It is part of the Physics Department Linux cluster and can be reached as cloud9.pa.uky.edu.  Its drive is backed up to McVey Hall every night, so files placed on cloudy9's drive are safe.  There is more information on the cluster on the Computer Resources page in the UK Physics Department

Cloud9 runs Linux and has the usual GNU compilers and tools.  The most important are gcc, g++, valgrind, and svn.   Use the web to find out more about these tools.

We have the Portland Group C/C++ compilers installed.  Use pgcc for C and pgCC for C++.  To use them you must add the following information to your .login file:

setenv PGI /usr/pgi
setenv LM_LICENSE_FILE $PGI/license.dat
set path = ( $PGI/linux86/6.1/bin $path )
setenv MANPATH /usr/pgi/linux86/6.1/man

The web site for the Portland Group is here.  That site has documentation for the compiler and a users group where questions can be asked.

Free software used to develop Cloudy

MS Visual Studio C++ Express, an IDE (integrated development environment) with C/C++ compiler.

Cloudy lives in a subversion repository on http[s]://svn.nublado.org/cloudy.  The subversion book describes how it works and how to use svn from a command prompt.

In a Windows environment you can access the cloudy repository with TortoiseSVN.  This extends Windows explorer to access the svn repository directly.

DOXYGEN, a source code commenting program.  They have a book on their web site.

You need a secure shell client to access the Physics Department Linux cluster.  On Windows we use SSH Secure Shell for Workstations.  Putty also gets good reviews.  Cygwin includes an ssh client.

The Cygwin environment brings in most of the GNU tools, including gcc, ssh, and an X11 server, into Windows.  Highly recommended.

Editpad Lite is a small editor which can, among other things, convert files between dos, Linux, and Mac end of line format.

Perl is a crucial part of life as we know it.

Calc98, a scientific calculator.

Some shareware/commercial software I use

Cloudy is developed with MS Visual Studio, and IDE/C++ compiler.  We also have an MSDN Academic Alliance license.

Visual SlickEdit runs on may platforms and has great power.  This is the editor I use.

Eluent Tools, file and directory editing, and it integrates with Visual Studio.

WinZip can compress and decompress zip, gzip, and tar files.

Last changed 07/23/06.
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