Software installers available from UW-Physics:
MS Windows and Office (for University owned computers)
Adobe Creative Cloud (for University owned computers)
Cisco-AMP anti-virus software (for University owned computers)
Software available from UW:
UW Campus Software Library, including free licenses for software such as
- Labview
- Mathematica (our license server is
mathlm.physics.wisc.edu) - Matlab (our license server is
matlablm.physics.wisc.edu) - Maple
Software that UW-Physics provides as a service (no installation required by you)
Condor – Large scale scientific computing
JupyterHub – Interactive browser-based python notebooks for scientific computing in research and classrooms.
OpenProject – Web-based project management system.
Linux – General purpose Linux environment accessible via ssh.
Please contact help@physics.wisc.edu for getting access to these services.
The UW-Physics IT staff recommends and supports the following software…
For reading PDF files: Acrobat
For high throughput batch computing: Condor
For compiling C, C++ and Fortran code: GNU Compilers
For data acquisition and instrument automation: LabVIEW
For numerical and symbolic computations: Mathematica
(The Department license server is mathlm.physics.wisc.edu.)
For remote logins and file copying on Linux and MacOS-X: OpenSSH
For remote logins on Windows: SecureCRT
For remote file copying on Windows: WinSCP
For anti-virus: Cisco-AMP (University owned computers), DoIT’s recommendations (for personally owned computers)