Unix services
IS Unix services run the Solaris operating system. Services include:
Timesharing service: Socrates
Socrates supports many users concurrently and can be
accessed from any IS computer as well as from other networked computers
in departments and from outside UCL. It is also accessible from
WTS via software called Exceed. Software
provided on Socrates includes mathematical and statistical packages,
text editing and formatting programs, and a variety
of programming languages.
Research computing service: Plato
Plato is a more powerful Unix system intended for non-interactive
number crunching and medium-scale computationally
intensive work. Only staff and postgraduates who can demonstrate
a particular need may be registered to use Plato - for more information
e-mail plato-registrations@ucl.ac.uk
Unix/Graphics workstations
Powerful workstations with high specification graphics cards are
housed in a room on the top floor of the Chadwick building. They
are particularly suited to sophisticated
graphical and mathematical
work and support the use of 24-bit colour.
You can see a full list
of software available on Unix services.
This page last modified
October 8, 2003
by Sally
Lynch
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