LiveDVD for testing/installing software (July 2013)

09.09.2013

Live DVD NMI3/ILL cover (July 2013) The Live DVD NMI3/ILL based upon Ubuntu 12.04. Ready to run, with all software pre-installed.

The Data Analysis workpackage and the Computing for Science group at the ILL, provide a ready to run LiveDVD (bootable) which includes a set of neutron scattering software. It runs out of the box, does not affect your current installed system, and can optionally be installed on a hard disk (create an empty partition/area so that the installer use it).
This is especially suited for testing software, schools/workshop/tutorials, and system deployment.

The current Live DVD ‘July 2013’ is based upon a Ubuntu 12.04 system with the following additional applications:

LAMP, DAVE, Mantid, Frida, Isaw, nMoldyn, iFit, qtiKWS
McStas, Vitess, SimRes
MFit/MView, vTAS, ResTrax
GRASP, SANSView, SASFit, GenX
FullProf, PDFgui, F.O.X., OpenMX, GSAS/EXPGUI

as well as:

C, C++ and Fortran compilers, Java, Python, Perl, Tcl/Tk, MPICH,
Python libs: Matplotlib, numpy, scientific, tk, numeric
AbInit, Chemtool, Gelemental, Ghemical, Gperiodic,
Gromacs, mopac, MPQC, PyMol, Rasmol, Viewmol,
Avogadro, DrawXtl, CBFlib DX, Fityk, Gabedit, Garlic, Gcrystal,
Scilab, Octave, PerlDL, PGPLOT, netcdf, ncview, hdf4, hdf5, nexus, hdfview
GeomView, OpenBabel, ParaView, Maxima, Java3d, Mayavi, qtiplot
gimp, virtualbox, openoffice, freewrl, partimage, gparted

Get the LiveDVD here (3.2 Gb ISO). Burn ISO, reboot, login with nmi3 no password. More information at the ILL Computing for Science .

History/releases:

March 2011: initial release based on Ubuntu 10.04
May 2012: release based on Ubuntu 12.04 , adding Frida, Isaw, SANSview, GenX, PDFgui, Vitess. nMoldyn and FreewWRL are buggy.
June 2012: fixed FreeWRL crash, and nMoldyn. Update your May 2012 installation by installing the following U12.04 amd64 deb packages python-netcdf, python-scientific, libmozjs2d, freewrl).
July 2013: updated packages, fixed some applications

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