Obtaining software commonly used at MRCAT

Software available for free or at a discount through Argonne

SPEC - available under Site License from Certified Scientific Software. Contacts: Xuesong Jiao JIAOX@aps.anl.gov or Gerry Swislow info@certif.com

Other Windows Software

WinSCP - Free SFTP and SCP client for Windows. Use this to copy your data from the lab to your home institution.

PuTTY - GPL Windows SSH client. Supports X forwarding Kerberos and may other features. (XCygwin or other Windows X server required for full display fowarding to work.)

Cygwin/XCygwin - Suite of GPL/GNU standard tools ported to work in a windows environment. XCygwin provides a X server for windows allowing X forwarding.

Debian and (|k|x)ubuntu Linux

Specialized/Custom Scientific Debian packages

The following are available to use in your /etc/apt/sources.list. Among others, Ifeffit, Athena, and Artemis can be obtained from these repositories.

# backported packages for sarge (will stop supporting this once etch 
# releases)
deb http://debian-xray.iit.edu sarge main contrib non-free

# backported packages for etch (now that etch is in freeze, any new 
# versions will be placed here)
deb http://debian-xray.iit.edu etch main contrib non-free

# additional software not yet in Debian (you can see what is there just 
# for grins!)
deb http://debian-xray.iit.edu sid main contrib non-free

# packages made for Ubuntu (I will support only the last three releases)
deb http://debian-xray.iit.edu dapper main contrib non-free
deb http://debian-xray.iit.edu edgy main contrib non-free
deb http://debian-xray.iit.edu feisty main contrib non-free

Private repositories

/PrivateRepositories - authenticated users only.

Homepages of software used at MRCAT

MX - Motor Control software chiefly developed by BillLavender
IFEFFIT - XAS Analysis Software package by Matt Newville
Athena, Artemis, and Hephaestus XAS software using IFEFFIT developed by BruceRavel