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* | * Possibly, but you have to bring your own license for it. You can connect to an external license server using [https://docs.scinet.utoronto.ca/index.php/SSH_Tunneling ssh tunneling]. | ||
* SciNet and Compute Canada have an extremely large and broad user base of thousands of users, so we cannot provide licenses for everyone's favorite software. | * SciNet and Compute Canada have an extremely large and broad user base of thousands of users, so we cannot provide licenses for everyone's favorite software. | ||
* Thus, the only commercial software installed on Niagara is software that can benefit everyone: compilers, math libraries and debuggers. | * Thus, the only commercial software installed on Niagara is software that can benefit everyone: compilers, math libraries and debuggers. | ||
* That means no | * That means no [[MATLAB]], Gaussian, IDL, | ||
* Open source alternatives like Octave, Python, R are available. | * Open source alternatives like Octave, [[Python]], and [[R]] are available. | ||
* We are happy to help you to install commercial software for which you have a license. | * We are happy to help you to install commercial software for which you have a license. | ||
* In some cases, if you have a license, you can use software in the Compute Canada stack. | * In some cases, if you have a license, you can use software in the Compute Canada stack. | ||
The list of commercial software which is installed on Niagara, for which you will need a license to use, can be found on the [https://docs.scinet.utoronto.ca/index.php/Commercial_software commercial software page]. | |||
Revision as of 18:23, 4 December 2018
- Possibly, but you have to bring your own license for it. You can connect to an external license server using ssh tunneling.
- SciNet and Compute Canada have an extremely large and broad user base of thousands of users, so we cannot provide licenses for everyone's favorite software.
- Thus, the only commercial software installed on Niagara is software that can benefit everyone: compilers, math libraries and debuggers.
- That means no MATLAB, Gaussian, IDL,
- Open source alternatives like Octave, Python, and R are available.
- We are happy to help you to install commercial software for which you have a license.
- In some cases, if you have a license, you can use software in the Compute Canada stack.
The list of commercial software which is installed on Niagara, for which you will need a license to use, can be found on the commercial software page.