Application Availability and Usage

Available Applications:

• School Core Applications - Cross-platform, school-supported applications for everyday tasks (documentation being updated)
  
• Linux/Windows Packages (mainly educational versions of commercial packages)
• Linux Applications - Applications available on Linux (both staff/PG and teaching/Open Access Labs) (documentation being updated)
• Linux Cad Tools - Cadence, Mentor, Xilinx, design kits etc
• Unix Applications - Applications available on Unix (documentation being updated)
• Windows Applications: Staff/PG - Availability and Installation of Windows XP applications within Eng (Staff/PG)
• Windows Applications: Labs - Windows XP applications available in the School PC and central Open Access Labs (documentation being updated)
• Office productivity tools - Open Office (now being replaced by LibreOffice) available on Linux and Windows
  

Licences:

• Eng Licence Monitor - (real-time)
• Eng EDEM Licences - (real-time)
• Eng LS-DYNA Licences - (real-time)

Most applications have licence restrictions of one kind or another. A number use the flexlm licence manager. The page shows the software that uses flexlm and the number of licences available for each application and who is using them (access to this page is restricted to within Eng).

Licensing Software - Obtaining and managing software licences.

New applications:

Before any new application may be introduced for use within the School network, a detailed case must be submitted for to the IT team for consideration by the team and the budget holders. The required forms are to be found under:

• Pre-purchase/pre-use: Application approval process.

Application Request Status:

The progress of packaging and the deployment of requested software can now be tracked.

• Status: Application package progress.