Open Source/ Free Software Alternatives
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RobAllan
- 20 Apr 2010
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/opensource/library/os-newlight/index.html?ca=dnw-1116&ca=dth-o
Main page now on
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This section is to collect information about open source or free software which is widely used as an alternative to commercial or proprietary offerings. It has a focus on software relevant for research and HPC systems. There are other sites for more general software, for instance see
http://www.osalt.com
and
http://alternativeto.net
. We will split this collection into categories off the links below. Mike Croucher's blog is at
http://www.walkingrandomly.com/
. See also the Open Science Project
http://www.openscience.org
.
A lot of general information can be found via the Open Directory Project
http://www.dmoz.org/Science
and Wikipedia
http://www.wikipedia.org
. There are also a number of books on this subject, e.g. see
Google Books
A report on the breakout session we held at
MEW20
on “Open-source alternatives to commercial scientific software” is available here:
http://bit.ly/8SulTc
.
Note many of the free packages are included with Linux distributions such as Gentoo.
Algebra Packages
- and general maths
Computational Chemistry
Molecular Dynamics
Computational Biology
and bio-informatics
Physics and Astronomy
Engineering
- structural, fluid and electronic
Computational Statistics
- including econometrics
Geographical Information Systems
- and geo-sciences
Agent Based Modelling and Simulation
Other relevant Links
Graph Plotting, etc.
including networks, flow charts...
Astronomy
- actually a paper discussing the issues with developing Open Source
Collaborative Computational Projects
- develop and share software packages in many science domains
Scientific Visualisation
- some packages listed here
http://tyne.dl.ac.uk/twiki/bin/view/GridAndHPC/PowerWall
General IT
- a compendium from North Carolina State University
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