Penn participates in the SGI Varsity Program. This program provides a variety of software in addition to IRIX and updates to IRIX.  This page will describe the varsity software and how to install the varsity software package for 1999-2000 for Penn, (the Developer Package) on an IRIX 6.5 machine.  Note: to use this software you need to pay the yearly fee to ISC and get access to the Varsity software CD's.  I like to think of the varsity software as comprising three categories, the compilers and code development software, web and graphical development software and the system functionality software.  In my experience in the Chemistry department, the software in the compilers category are the most frequently used.   For more information on this program, see SGI's varsity home page.  Some of the products mentioned here require a license key.  Get this from the same person you got the software from.

Note: SGI has re-organized its software as of 6.5.  Some products that were available to us only through Varsity are now standard with 6.5.  See below.

Compilers and code development software

• ProDev Workshop: visual tools for creating, debugging and tuning software.
• Workshop Pro MPF: A visual interface to the Power Fortran Analyzer.
• ADA95 Compiler
• Fortran 77 7.3
• Fortran 90 7.3
• MIPS Pro C Compiler 7.3
• MIPS Pro C ++ Compiler 7.3
• Message Passing Toolkit: libraries and tools for parallel programming.

Web and graphical development software

• Cosmo web creation tools: CosmoCode for Java development, CosmoCreate for HTML development and CosmoWorlds for VRML (3-D web) development.
• Webforce: web development tools
• Imagevision Libary Development: graphical libraries
• Performer: 3D graphics software
• Open Inventor: libraries for SGI's 3-D graphics description language.

System functionality Software

• Impressario: augments your systems printing and scanning capabilities.
• NFS: allows remote filesystems to be used almost the exact same as local filesystems.
• XFS volume plexing: allows you to make disk volumes.
• Roboinst: lets you automate software installations.
• Performance Co-pilot: lets you graphically monitor and analyze system performance.
• Mineset: data mining software

Installing this varsity software is usually pretty easy.  The software is usually bundled onto its own CD, or a CD with several products.  Place the relevant CD in the drive and load the software distribution "/CDROM/dist" from inst or Software Manager.  This will load the default selections.

IRIX 6.5 Important!
The following products are included on the IRIX 6.5 Operating System Applications CD:

                        Image Development Foundation (IDF)
                        Image Development Library (IDL)
                        Annotator
                        Impressario
                        CosmoTM Create
                        NFSTM
                        MPEG Encoder
                        CINEPAK Encoder

last updated 2/28/00 by Martin McCormick, martinm@sas.upenn.edu