Current version Ubuntu-CS March 2011 [ISO][Release notes]

The Computing for Science provides a custom LiveDVD which gathers some ILL and neutron scattering community related software to be used for data analysis and simulation. It runs on all Intel/AMD based computers and contains

LAMP, nMoldyn, McStas, Matlab MFit/MView and GRASP, FullProf, vTAS, ResTrax and SimRes, looktxt, idl2matlab, DAVE, Mantid,

as well as many other scientific software:

• 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,
• BallView, 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
  

This DVD is bootable. It contains a Ubuntu 10.04 system with pre-installed applications. You may just run it without touching the current computer hard disk. You may also install it (with all software) on a 30 Gb+ disk. The Ubuntu system runs on all machines, including Apple ones (press C key when booting). The CPU needs to support 64bit architecture (will not run on some netbooks and older machines).

You may burn the DVD from:

where you will find Release notes, an ISO (3.7 Gb) and DVD cover documents.

Usage:

1. burn the DVD iso,
2. reboot your computer,
3. press Return at the 'boot:' prompt or wait for 5 seconds,
4. then select 'Live CD session' (1st item in the menu) when the blue style splash shows up
5. login as custom without password
   
6. use and/or install (requires at least a 30 Gb partition)