Local computing

The High Energy Theory group maintains a number of general purpose desktop computers. Group members may also request accounts on the Oscar cluster.

Scientific computing resources

• Brown software
• Unix help
• Useful software
  • latex — our basic scientific publishing format
  • lyx — a wysiwm front-end for latex
  • Adobe Illustrator — vector graphics
  • unison — syncronize files/directories between different computers
  • jabref — bibtex editor, for citing other papers in articles
  • bibdesk — Mac bibtex editor
  • mathematica
  • maple
  • vnc — remote desktop environment (lets you run long mathematica/maple jobs on the cluster)
  • grace — statistical plotting program (for when you have error bars)