Institut Laue-Langevin

ILL/Computing for Science software pre-installed on a LiveDVD

The Computing for Science group has built a custom LiveDVD which gathers some ILL 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 as well as many other scientific software.

These are pre-installed on the DVD-embedded Ubuntu system. Running it does not affect your own computer system, and runs entirely from the DVD and in the computer memory, You are free to install this DVD (an Install icon is on the Desktop), aside your existing system (Windows, Mac OSX, Linux). The DVD supports 64 bit architectures (that is more than 3 Gb of memory) and multi-CPU systems (including clusters). Some Windows and MacOSX installers are also available on the DVD (ILL_CS_Software directory).

You may burn the DVD from ftp://ftp.ill.fr/pub/cs/ubuntu_cs, where you will find documentation, 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,
   4. then select 'Live CD session' (1st item in the menu) when the blue style splash shows up
   5. login as cs_guest without password
   6. use and/or install (requires at least a 10 Gb partition)
   7. or simply get the Windows and MacOSX installers in the DVD ILL_CS_Software directory

Notes:

   1. The Network proxy is set to proxy.ill.fr for use at the ILL. Change it from menu System/Preferences/Network Proxy
   2. To run LAMP with iTools, you will need to install an additional package from here.