ITS offers a wide variety of research computing software for use by NYU faculty and researchers. Some are available on ITS computers,
some can be purchased as part of NYU's site licenses, and some can be checked out for use on personal computers. See below for details.
ArcGIS
www.esri.com/products.html
ESRI (Environmental Systems Research Institute)
ArcGIS (for Desktop): ArcGIS is a windows-based collection of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) software products designed to produce detailed maps, build spatial models and manage spatial data.
- ArcInfo is the most complete desktop GIS. It includes all the functionality of ArcEditor and ArcView and adds advanced spatial analysis, extensive data manipulation, and high-end cartography tools.
- ArcEditor is a powerful GIS desktop system for editing and managing geographic data. It includes all the functionality of ArcView along with additional advanced editing tools to ensure the quality of your data.
- ArcView is the basic GIS desktop system for visualizing, managing, creating, and analyzing geographic data.
- Extensions products let you add more capabilities to ArcGIS for Desktop. These specialized tools allow you to perform extended tasks such as raster geoprocessing, three-dimensional analysis, and map publishing. Read more about ArcGIS for Desktop extensions [PDF].
- ArcPad is mobile field mapping and data collection software designed for GIS professionals. It includes advanced GIS and GPS capabilities for capturing, editing, and displaying geographic information quickly and efficiently.
- ArcGIS Online is a cloud-based geospatial content management system for storing, sharing and managing maps, data, and other geospatial information.
- ArcReader is a free, easy-to-use desktop mapping application that allows users to view, explore, and print maps and globes.
Support Information
The Data Service Studio (DSS) supports various ESRI suites including ArcInfo, ArcEditor and ArcView and their extensions, as well as other ESRI products described above such as ArcPad, ArcGIS Online and ArcReader.
In addition to software support, the DSS also give you access to a collection of ESRI's intensive interactive and self-paced online training courses covering everything from the basics of making maps to advanced applications of spatial analysis (Virtual Campus Web Courses).
For more information on ArcGIS and other GIS related software, services and spatial data, please visit http://nyu.libguides.com/GIS or contact the Data Service Studio.
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ATLAS.ti
www.atlasti.com
ATLAS.ti is a powerful workbench for the qualitative analysis of large bodies of textual, graphical, audio and video data. It offers a variety
of tools for accomplishing the tasks associated with any systematic approach to "soft" data—i.e., material which cannot be sufficiently
analyzed using formalized, statistical approaches. (Source)
Accessing ATLAS.ti
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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Comsol
www.comsol.com
Comsol Multiphysics is an engineering, design, and finite element analysis software environment for the modeling and simulation of any physics based problem. A floating network license is available for the CFD module and
for the Microfluidics module. The software is installed on the HPC clusters. Please send email to hpc@nyu.edu for more information.
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EndNote
www.endnote.com
EndNote allows you to search, retrieve, and store citations from bibliographic databases such as ABI Inform, the Web of Science, Anthropological Literature, the MLA bibliography, or the catalogs of individual libraries. It can generate bibliographies, reading lists, and footnotes in a wide variety of styles, and because it links directly to word processing programs, you are able to add and format citations to papers as you write.
EndNote is supported by NYU Libraries. For information about using EndNote, see the NYU Libraries EndNote support page or attend a free
Library Class.
Site License Requirements & Costs
- NYU-licensed copies of EndNote software are available free to NYU faculty, administrators, staff, and students.
- Software may be retained after leaving NYU.
Download and Installation
- Download the installer (NYU NetID/Password may be required.)
Note: The Mac installers come with a manual. There is no EndNote for Unix.
If you are updating from a previous version of EndNote, EndNote recommends that you uninstall any previous versions to avoid confusion later.
- First back up any existing EndNote library files and any customized content files (e.g. styles, connection files, and filters).
- Close all open programs, and then uninstall any older versions by selecting "Add/Remove Programs" from the Windows Control Panel (or trash the old folders on a Mac).
- Once any older versions have been uninstalled, run the EndNote installer. This will create a new EndNote program folder, and you can then move any backed up library or content files into this new folder.
- Save the installer to your hard drive, and make a note of the folder that you saved it in.
- Install the software.
Windows:
- Double-click the EndNoteX6.zip file. This will create a folder entitled EndNoteX6.
- Open the folder and double-click ENX6Inst.msi.
- Run the installer.
- Accept all default settings and, if prompted, agree to the terms of the license.
Macintosh:
- If it does not open automatically, double click on the downloaded EndNote_X.dmg file.
- An installer will appear on your desktop.
- Drag the EndNote folder to your Applications folder in your hard drive. It may take a couple of minutes for the files to copy completely.
- The first time you click on the EndNote icon in its folder in Applications, you will be walked through a setup process. Accept the default settings and agree to the terms of license.
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EViews
 www.eviews.com
EViews is a Windows-based econometric software package that uses innovative graphical object oriented user-interface that allows
you to quickly and efficiently manage your data, perform econometric and statistical analysis, generate forecasts or model simulations,
and produce high quality graphs and tables for publication or inclusion in other applications. EViews allows you to work with
time series, cross-section, or longitudinal data. (Source)
Accessing EViews
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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Gaussian
www.gaussian.com
Gaussian uses basic quantum mechanic electronic structure programs. This software is capable
of handling proteins and large molecules using semi-empirical, ab initio molecular orbital (MO), density functional,
and molecular mechanics calculations.
Gaussian is available on the HPC clusters. Please send email to hpc@nyu.edu for more information. |
GaussView
www.gaussian.com/gv_plat.htm
GaussView is a graphical user interface for Gaussian (see above). Gaussview is available on the USQ HPC cluster. Users can also install GaussView
on their desktops, as NYU has a site license for it.
Accessing GaussView
To request access to GaussView, send email to hpc@nyu.edu.
To start GaussView, type the following on the command line:
module load GaussView
xgv
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Maple
 www.maplesoft.com
Maple is a software tool that offers high performance mathematics capabilities with integrated numerics and symbolics. Maple can be used from the command line or with a graphical interface. Helpful documentation to assist with the use of Maple is available upon request to hpc@nyu.edu.
Accessing Maple
A permanent license for Maple is shared by ITS and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, and is available from accounts on NYU CIMS computers.
For command line operation of Maple, type: ./maple
For the Maple graphical interface, type: ./xmaple
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Mathematica
 www.wolfram.com
Mathematica is a general computing environment with organizing algorithmic, visualization, and user interface capabilities. The many mathematical algorithms included in Mathematica make computation easy and fast.
NYU has a campus-wide site license for Mathematica software that is managed by ITS. The site license is available for use by any "affiliated individual" on "eligible computers" (computers owned or leased by NYU and primarily used for teaching and academic research). Faculty and staff who join the site license are also entitled to receive an additional Mathematica license for personally-owned machines. The upgrades for home use are free for NYU faculty and staff.
The annual fee for single users is $165. Departmental licenses cost approximately $2,000, depending on the number of seats included in the network license. Mathematica training courses are available at a 30% discount for site license participants.
Instructions
- Faculty, staff, administrators, or departments who wish to join the site license should send email to hpc@nyu.edu.
- Students who wish to use Mathematica can access it via the Virtual Computer Lab (VCL) or at the Data Service Studio. You can also check to see whether your department has joined the site license, which enables student access. The Physics Department, Courant Institute, Center for Neural Sciences, Politics, and the ITS Fourth Street Academic Technology Center also have copies of the software installed on their computers for student use. In addition, students can purchase a license from ITS for $20 for their personal computer by sending email to hpc@nyu.edu.
Version and Operating System Information
Mathematica is available for network and single machines using any of the following operating systems:
- Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
- Mac OS X (Universal)
- Linux x86 (32-bit, 64-bit)
- Solaris UltraSPARC
- Solaris x86
- IBM AIX
- HP-UX
- Linux IA64 (Itanium)
Questions
Please send your Mathematica questions to hpc@nyu.edu.
WebMathematica is also available.
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Matlab
 www.mathworks.com
Matlab is a technical computing environment for high performance numeric computation and visualization. Matlab integrates numerical analysis, matrix computation, signal processing, and graphics in an easy to use environment without using traditional programming. Typical uses include general purpose numeric computation, algorithm prototyping, and special-purpose problem solving with matrix formulations that arise in disciplines such as control theory, statistics, and digital signal processing. Matlab is compatible with all platforms, including Intel-based Macs and Power PC Macs.
Students can access Matlab via the Virtual Computer Lab (VCL). Students can purchase a copy for their personal computer from the NYU Computer Store.
Matlab features a family of application specific solutions called Toolboxes. (You can read more about these Toolboxes at the Matlab website.) Many of the most popular toolboxes are available through NYU's MatLab license.
Accessing Matlab
NYU has a TAH (Total Academic Headcount) Matlab Site License.
The number of individual licenses for software and each Toolbox
is unlimited. Students cannot have the TAH Matlab software on their personal computers; it must be used on NYU computers or networks.
The annual site license for Matlab is divided into two sections:
- Designated Computer: The Designated Computer License is the stand-alone license. The purchaser of this license can install and activate the Matlab software on his or her own computer and can also obtain a home use license free of charge. The annual fee is $100.
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Network Concurrent User:
The TAH Site License permits multiple network license servers.
Only the administrator or asset manager can install and activate
the software and license on a server. Those using client computers
can install software on their computers and do not have to
activate the software. Eligible University community members can download software from the Mathworks website and check out a license from a network
server. ITS, the Leonard N. Stern School of Business, Neural Sciences, and the Medical School maintain Matlab Servers. CIMS, Physics, and Economics have Matlab software available. Matlab is also available on the HPC clusters and on computers at the Data Service Studio.
To request Matlab access, send an email request to hpc@nyu.edu. (Interested NYU School of Medicine community members should see this website for more information.)
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Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG)
 www.nag.com
The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) is the largest collection of algorithms for mathematical, statistical, and
data mining problems. The subroutines can be incorporated into code in all languages and used on all platforms.
Compilers for Fortran and C are available.
A Fortran Library of routines is available for the following (and others):
- Complex Arithmetic
- Optimization
- Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
- Roots of Nonlinear Equations
- Solution of Linear and Nonlinear Least Squares Problems
- Special Functions
- Eigenvvalue and Eigenvector Problems
- Sparse Linear Algebra
- Simple Calculations and Statistical Data
- Correlation and Regression Analysis
- Random Number Generators
- Operations Research
- Sorting
The IRIS Explorer Package has subroutines for visualization.
Accessing NAG
A site license for NAG software is shared by ITS and the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences; it includes the Parallel Library and all the Fortran and C Libraries. The software can be downloaded from the NAG website. To obtain the installation key, send email to hpc@nyu.edu. The NAG Toolbox for Matlab (used for Optimization) is also available. |
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Numerical Recipes
Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing is a book published
by the Cambridge University Press that includes about 200
mathematical subroutines. For each subroutine, the code (in Fortran or C) and a discussion is included.
The code (available electronically) can be incorporated in a user's program as a subroutine.
Typical topics are: Solutions of linear algebraic equations, interpolation and extrapolation,
special functions, random numbers, root finding, eigenvalues,
Fourier transforms, statistical descriptions of data, integration of
Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE), 2-point boundary value problems, and
Partial Differential Equations (PDE).
Accessing Numerical Recipes
A copy of this book is available through ITS. Send
an email request to hpc@nyu.edu for more information.
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R
www.r-project.org
R is a highly extensible language and environment that provides a wide variety of statistical (linear and nonlinear modeling, classical statistical tests, time-series analysis,
classification, clustering) and graphical techniques. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S language and environment.
Accessing R
R is available on the USQ HPC cluster and the Bowery HPC cluster. For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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Remark Office OMR
www.gravic.com/remark/officeomr
Remark Office OMR is a popular Windows-based forms-processing software package for surveys and tests. The software recognizes optical marks (bubbles and checkboxes) and
barcodes. It allows you to design your own forms using any word processor, print them out, scan and recognize data with your image scanner, and then analyze the data
or export it to the application of your choice!
Accessing Remark Office OMR
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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SAS
www.sas.com
SAS is a predictive analytics software package. Along with SPSS, it
is the most popular statistical software package at NYU. For additional information about using SAS, see the Data Service Studio website.
Accessing SAS
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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Schrodinger
 www.schrodinger.com
Schrodinger enables the solving of problems in Pharmacology, Biotechnology, and Material Science.
SiteMap is a Schrodinger product used in protein structures to identify binding sites and is available on the HPC clusters.
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SPSS
www.spss.com
SPSS is a popular statistical package similar to SAS and Stata. For additional information about using SPSS, see the Data Service Studio website.
Accessing SPSS
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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SPSS Text Analysis
www.spss.com/textanalysis_surveys/
SPSS Text Analysis is natural language processing software that facilitates categorization and import of text responses to open-ended survey questions.
The software offers both automated and manual techniques, and allows you to import data from SPSS for Windows, Microsoft Excel, ODBC-compliant
databases and SPSS' Dimensions survey research products. Results can be exported as categories or dichotomies for further analysis in SPSS, mrTables,
or Excel.
Accessing SPSS Text Analysis
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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Stata
www.stata.com
Stata is a statistical package used for data analysis, data management, and graphics. For additional information about using Stata, see the Data Service Studio website.
Accessing Stata
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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SUDAAN
www.rti.org/sudaan/
The SUDAAN software package offers nine analytic procedures for analyzing complex data sets, and is often used in conjunction with SAS and SPSS.
Accessing SUDAAN
For information, see the DSS Supported Software page.
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Tecplot 360
 http://www.tecplot.com/products/tecplot-360
Tecplot 360 is a software package that combines advanced plotting and data visualization. It enables you to analyze and explore complex datasets, arrange multiple XY, 2- and 3-D plots, and create high-quality animations.
Accessing Tecplot 360
A license for Tecplot 360 is shared by ITS and CIMS, and is available on CIMS computers and for download from the Tecplot website. This license allows up to 10 Tecplot 360 sessions to be used simultaneously. For assistance with using an ITS/CIMS license, send an email request to
hpc@nyu.edu.
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TotalView
 http://www.roguewave.com/products/totalview.aspx
A parallel and multi-thread debugger and profiler, TotalView offers free software licenses to students at degree-granting institutions.
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