SC08 is currently in progress. Collected notes and other details about how and what we should do next year should be placed in the SC09 wiki page: SCEd'09 Software and Laptop Images
| Software Title
| Requester/Point person
| Downloaded?
| Installed?
| Tested?
| Notes
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| Firefox
| Thomas Loughran
| Y
| Y
| Y
| Both FF2 and FF3 installed. The latter is default. Need to update menus.
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| Google Earth
| Thomas Loughran
| Y
| Y
| Y
| Choppy, as it's in a VM instance and doesn't have access to DirectX stuffs.
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| Skype
| Thomas Loughran
| Y
| Y
| N
| Not tested in VM environment. Installed 3.8, but there is also a 4.0 Beta 2. Open to thoughts.
|
| Microsoft Excel 2003
| Thomas Loughran
| Y
| Y
| N
| We are experiencing and "installation" issue every time we attempt to start an MS Office product. The products are usable, with an initial two clicks of Cancel and waiting between. Message sent to Keith.
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| Microsoft Excel 2007
| Susan Ragan
| N
| N
| N
| We will not be installing 2007, per complications and executive decision.
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| OpenOffice
| Susan Ragan
| Y
| Y
| Y
| Installed OpenOffice 3.0. Opened, and tested saving of simple text and spreadsheet files.
|
| Cygwin
| Christian Trefftz
| Y
| Y
| Y
| Installed with only the default applications. Minimally tested (bash console, a few minor file operations)
|
| EJS (Easy Java Simulations)
| David Joiner
| Y
| Y
| N
| Unzipped version 4.1 to Desktop/EJS. Ran EJS once "to create default configuration." Did not type any author information. Also installed EJS_Documentation and EJS_Compiled_Modules to Desktop/EJS.
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| Java JRE
| David Joiner
| N
| N
| N
| A JRE is installed with the JDK, so we'll simply use that. Not installed, see Java JDK
|
| Java JDK
| David Joiner
| Y
| Y
| Y
| Installed Java JDK 6u10, includes similar JRE.
|
| PtPlot v5.7
| Rubin Landau
| Y
| Y
| N
| Unzipped to desktop
|
| Mathematica 6.0+
| Richard Gass
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed, pointed to Paul's license server, seems to work. Needs to be tested.
|
| Mathematica Fonts
| Richard Gass
| Y
| Y
| N
| Found Mathematica Fonts from the supplied website. The instructions said to put fonts in three places, but only the MS System one needed updating. I have no idea if this is what is requested.
|
| Assorted Mathematica models
| David Joiner
| N
| N
| N
|
|
| GridMathematica
| David Joiner
| N
| Y
| N
|
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| PCT (parallel computing tool kit)
| Richard Gass
| N
| N
| N
|
|
| PuTTY
| Paul Gray
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed the suite of PuTTY utilities: PuTTY, PSCP, PSFTP, Plink, Pageant, PuTTYgen. I placed the binaries in \WINDOWS so that they may be more easily used from the command line, if desired.
|
| WinSSH
| Paul Gray
| N
| N
| N
| I couldn't find this online. Per email discussion w/ Paul, no need to install. Just WinSCP.
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| WinSCP
| Paul Gray
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed v4.17. Chose MS Explorer-similar interface.
|
| X server for Windows (Xming)
| Paul Gray
| Y
| Y
| N
| Xming and Cygwin were the contenders, I went with Xming because it has a maintainer currently. It claims to work with PuTTY, but I did not install the Xming specific build of PuTTY. Also installed Xming Fonts
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| Internet Explorer
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| This is built-in to the MS Windows operating system. Set the home page to http://sc-education.org/
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| Adobe Acrobat or Reader
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Pre-installed by Intel.
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| Quicktime
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed. Minimal test: it successfully opens and displays information from the web.
|
| ACD ChemSketch 11.0 Freeware
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed, seems to work, with limited tests Shawn gave us.
|
| BioRad KnowItAll Academic Edition
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed, site-license entered.
|
| MDL Chime 2.6 SP7 for Windows plugin
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Plugin installed to both Firefox and Internet Explorer. I note that their is now a Java Applet version available as well, so on a cursory inspection, I wonder if the plugin necessary any more.
|
| Cortona VRML Client
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed, appears to work. Use OpenGL installation option.
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| Jmol Version 11.4.6
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Folder placed on desktop, as requested.
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| VenSim PLE (NOT demo)
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed PLE (Personal Learning Edition), chose 60-day Evaluation option.
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| Odyssey
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed, awaiting license on-site from Shawn.
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| Mercury 1.4.2 Viewer
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed, selected defaults (no file-associations)
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| Cambridge Structural Database (CSD) Teaching Database
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Unzipped to a folder on the Desktop.
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| Molecular Workbench
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed to the desktop.
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| Netlogo v4.0.3
| Shawn Sendlinger
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed with defaults.
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| MATLAB
| Steven Gordon
| Y
| Y
| N
| Installed. Used update license file, per email from Siddharth Samsi (4:03pm -0400 Fri, 17 Oct 2008)
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