<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Scientific Computing with Free software on GNU/Linux HOWTO </TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Preamble" HREF="preamble.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="article" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="title" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Scientific Computing with Free software on GNU/Linux HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Manoj Warrier</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:m_war (at) users.sourceforge.net" >m_war (at) users.sourceforge.net</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN10" >Shishir Deshpande</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:shishir (at) ipr.res.in" >shishir (at) ipr.res.in</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><H3 CLASS="author" ><A NAME="AEN16" >V. S. Ashoka</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="affiliation" ><DIV CLASS="address" ><P CLASS="address" ><TT CLASS="email" ><<A HREF="mailto:ashok (at) rri.res.in" >ashok (at) rri.res.in</A >></TT ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><P CLASS="pubdate" >2003-10-03<BR></P ><DIV CLASS="revhistory" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.2</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-10-19</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: M. W</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >1 Correction and new additional links</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.1</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2004-06-21</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: M. W</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Updates and evaluated distros</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 1.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-11-18</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: JP</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >Document Reviewed by LDP.</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.0</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2003-10-01</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: M. W</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" >first draft proposed</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="abstract" ><A NAME="AEN44" ></A ><P ></P ><P > This document aims to show how a PC running GNU/Linux can be used for scientific computing. It lists the various available free software and also links on the world wide web to tutorials on getting started with the tools. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="preamble.html" >Preamble</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="preamble.html#copyright" >Copyright and License</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="preamble.html#disclaimer" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="preamble.html#motive" >Motivation</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="preamble.html#credits" >Credits / Contributors</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="preamble.html#feedback" >Feedback</A ></DT ><DT >1.6. <A HREF="preamble.html#translations" >Translations</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DT >3. <A HREF="devtools.html" >Code Development Tools</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="devtools.html#ProgLang" >Programming Languages</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="devtools.html#DebugTool" >Debugging Tools</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="devtools.html#VCT" >Version Control Tools</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="devtools.html#IDE" >Integrated Development Environments</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="mathpack.html" >Mathematics Packages</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="numlib.html" >Numerical Methods and Libraries</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >5.1. <A HREF="numlib.html#Repositories" >Repositories</A ></DT ><DT >5.2. <A HREF="numlib.html#AEN292" >Other topic specific numerical libraries</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >6. <A HREF="graphvis.html" >Graphics and Visualization</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="systems.html" >Programming systems for GNU/Linux</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >7.1. <A HREF="systems.html#GNULinuxWS" >The GNU/Linux Workstation</A ></DT ><DT >7.2. <A HREF="systems.html#PPSMP" >Parallel Processing and Symmetric Multiprocessing: Supercomputing</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >8. <A HREF="publish.html" >Word-Processing and Poster presenting tools on Linux</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >8.1. <A HREF="publish.html#wp" >Word Processing Tools</A ></DT ><DT >8.2. <A HREF="publish.html#ppt" >Poster presentation tools</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >9. <A HREF="database.html" >Free Database Management Systems for Linux</A ></DT ><DT >10. <A HREF="lablinux.html" >Linux in the laboratory</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="preamble.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Preamble</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >