Computer Lab (RTK)

The usual opening hours of the RTK are:
Monday to Friday from 8:00 am. until 4:00 pm.

Dr. Holger Irrgang

Alexander Dieme

The RTK consists of a Mac-Pool of 10 Mac minis and a PC-Pool of 40 computer. Here you find a list of the hardware and all installed software:

Hardware: Intel NUC i7-5557U

• Processor: Intel Core i7 5557U 3.1 GHz
• Memory: 16 GB RAM
• SSD 250 GB

Operating system

• Linux Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Mathematics

Biology

Compiler and programming environment

Editors

Office

• Open Office

Tools

This list can help you to find open source software as an alternative to expensive commercial software and gives you useful software advises and recommendations. 

Mathematics Software

• Octave
  Free MATLAB alternative.
• Scilab
  extensive Software package for numerical calculations.
• R
  Statistics Software for data analysis etc.
• Cinderella
  older version free geometry program.
• Zirkel und Lineal
  powerful geometry program.
• GeoGebra
  dynamical geometry program awarded with the German educational software award (platform-independent).

Compiler and Programming Environments

• G95
  Fortran 95 Compiler for Windows and Linux.
• MinGW
  Collection of GNU-Compilers (C/C++, Fortran) and corresponding Header files.
• Dev-C++
  Programming environment for C++ (contains MinGW).
• Eclipse
  originaly programming environment for Java, plugins for a range of other languages and Latex (TeXlispe) exist.
• Photran
  Eclipse version developed for Fortran.
• Sun Studio
  Programming environment from Sun, Compiler for C/C++ and Fortran included (Registration required).

LaTeX

• MiKTeX
  LaTeX implementation for Windows. Contains all necessary packages and tools (latex, pdflatex, bibtex,...).
• TeXnicCenter
  IDE for creating LaTeX documents, suitable for beginners.
• LEd
  Extensive LaTeX editor with integrated dokument preview, BibTeX support and automatic code completion.
• Texmaker
  Basic LaTeX-Editor, also available for Linux.

Editors

• PSPad
  powerful editor, with syntax highlightning for allmost all programming languages (HTML, CSS, Java, c/c++, Fortran, MATLAB, LaTeX,...). A special feature is the automatic allocation of compilers according to the file ending.
• Phase 5
  Good HTML-Editor, that also supports CSS, Javascript etc.

In the following you find link recommendations:

• Collection of Computer Technology
  
• DANTE (Deutschsprachige Anwendervereinigung TeX e.V.)
• heise online (News from the world of Computer Science)
• heise open (Open Source News)
• WinFAQ (useful tips for all Windows versions)