Research Workstations - default software loads

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A standard Research computer will have the following software installed, depending on the platform.

This page is for listing purpose only, not for installation instructions.

Windows XP

For 32-bit platforms, Windows XP Professional (x86, Corporate VLK edition) is the ONLY officially supported Windows operating system.

Windows 7

For multicore 64-bit hardware, Windows 7 Enterprise Edition is standard

Standard Windows (64- and 32-bit) Packages

  • Device drivers, including printers
  • 7Zip
  • Adobe Creative Suite 4
  • Adobe Acrobat Reader
    • This is for reading PDF documents, while Acrobat Professional is for creating/editing.
    • Install Acrobat Reader AFTER Creative Suite.
      The reason for this is that because it has no license limitations, we want it to be the default app. for viewing PDF files. Acrobat Professional should ONLY be used for when you need to edit PDF files. Using it to view PDFs will needlessly tie up one of the license seats.
  • Adobe Updates
    • launch from the Help menu in any Creative Suite applications
  • Audacity
  • Autodesk AutoCAD, Revit, Architecture
  • Autodesk Maya
  • CityEngine
  • Cycling 74 MAX/MSP/Jitter
  • Firefox
  • Google Sketchup
  • GoogleEarth
  • Google Chrome
  • ImgBurn (CD/DVD burner)
  • Java Development Kit (JDK) 6 (Sun Microsystems)
  • Sassafras K2 Keyserver Client
  • Trend Micro OfficeScan
  • Microsoft DirectX Runtimes (latest)
  • Microsoft .Net Framework (latest)
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer
  • NotePad Plus (text editor)
  • Microsoft Office 2010
  • PuTTY (telnet / ssh client)
  • Solidworks
  • VLC Media Player
    • supports VCD, DVD, AVI, MKV, Ogg, OGM, 3GP, MPEG-1/2/4, WMV, RealMedia, FLV and QuickTime
  • WinSCP (FTP client)

On Request

  • AtlasTi
  • Mathworks Mathlab
    SIAT has a limited number of Matlab licenses with a small subset of the toolboxes. For the complete toolbox set, we recommend using the SFU campus version which also supports many more simultaneous license uses than SIAT's does. The only limitation with the SFU version is that you must be connected to the campus network for their version of Matlab to run.
  • Mozilla Sunbird calendar client
  • Mozilla Thunderbird email client
  • OpenOffice
  • Nikon Capture
  • Nikon View

Linux

Complete install Ubuntu

  • Auto-update
  • Both KDE and GNOME, maybe some other WMs too.
  • Development tools
    • Eclipse (Java & C++ support)
  • Mozilla Firefox
  • K3B for cd/dvd writing

Other distributions of Linux are also available - just ask! We often have SuSE, and Gentoo on-hand, but Fedora and others are easy to obtain. We can help with dual-boot setups, or provide LiveCDs (which don't actually install, but rather let you test-drive Linux).

Mac OS-X

Complete install of OS 10.4 with all updates, XCode Tools

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