Software that you should have on your Mac

Commercial Software

  1. OmniGraffle - good diagramming software

  2. Matlab - IMSS website
  3. COMSOL 5.6 - LIGO has a network license
  4. Papers - download
  5. Mathematica - IMSS

You can get a license for these through Larry Wallace, or its free through IMSS

Free Software

  1. X-Code (~2.4 GB): needed to compile things on your laptop. Get it from the Mac App store.

  2. Homebrew: you need this to handle UNIX packages on the Mac. This is better than the native unix tools or MacPorts (which is kind of fading out)

  3. BibDesk: BibTex manager for Latex

  4. MacTex: texlive package from CTAN. use 'sudo tlmger update' to keep this up to date between installs

  5. Anaconda: use this to install python and always use virtual environments for each kind of python task you do so that new packages don't ruin your base OS python
  6. Gimp
  7. GIT: version control; get it with homebrew

  8. Coconut Battery

LIGO Software

  1. nds2 client - get it through anaconda / conda-forge. Lets you download LIGO data.
  2. pycbc - can do a bunch of waveform stuff

Computers_and_Scripts/MacSoftware (last edited 2021-01-12 03:07:27 by RanaadhikariATligoDOTorg)