Translations:Niagara Quickstart/68/en

• 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.