Scientific Packages List

Software available in Fedora Scientific

This page lists the software tools available in Fedora Scientific, in addition to the ones available in the Fedora KDE Spin.

This page is in progress. All the packages included are here

(Refer: Scientific_Spin)

Scientific and Numerical Computing Tools/Environments

Name	Functionality	Homepage
gsl	GNU Scientific Library	http://www.gnu.org/s/gsl/
maxima	Computer Algebra System	http://maxima.sourceforge.net/
GNU Octave (with QtOctave frontend)	Numerical Computation Package	http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/
matplotlib	Python plotting library	http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
SciPy	Scientific tools for Python	http://www.scipy.org/
SpeedCrunch	Fast, high precision and powerful desktop calculator	http://speedcrunch.org/en_US/index.html
Spyder	Scientific PYthon Development EnviRonment	http://packages.python.org/spyder/
Root	Data Analysis	http://root.cern.ch/drupal/
R (with Rkward)	Statistical Computing and Graphics	http://www.r-project.org/

Generic Programming and Development Tools/Libraries

Name	Functionality	Homepage
C/C++ tools (gcc, autotools, flex, bison, strace,ddd, valgrind..)	Tools for C/C++ development	http://gcc.gnu.org/ and others.
GNU Fortran	Fortran Compiler	http://gcc.gnu.org/fortran/
Java Development tools	Java compilers/interprters	http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Java
NetBeans IDE	IDE for C/C++/Java/PHP/Groovy..	http://netbeans.org/
Eclipse IDE	IDE for C/C++/Java/PHP/Groovy..	http://www.eclipse.org/

Parallel and Distributed Progeamming Tools/Libraries

Name	Functionality	Homepage
OpenMP	Shared memory C/C++ programming	http://openmp.org/wp/
OpenMPI	Open Source MPI implementation	http://www.open-mpi.org/
PVM	Parallel Virtual Machine	http://www.csm.ornl.gov/pvm/
Torque	Batch jobs processing/Resource manager	Homepage

Editing, Plotting, Drawing and Visualization

Name	Functionality	Homepage
Texmaker	LaTex Editor	http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/
Kile	TeX/LaTeX editor for the KDE	http://kile.sourceforge.net/
Lyx	The Document Processor	http://www.lyx.org/
Scribus	Layout and Publishing	http://www.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus
Inkscape	Vector graphics editor	http://inkscape.org/
ScITE	Text Editor	http://www.scintilla.org/SciTE.html
Xfig and associated Utilities	Drawing program	http://www.xfig.org/
gnuplot	Plotting Program	http://www.gnuplot.info
Dia	Drawing program	http://projects.gnome.org/dia/
GGobi	Data Visualization	http://www.ggobi.org/
G3DATA	Extracting data from graphs	http://www.frantz.fi/software/g3data.php
GIMP	Image processing	http://www.gimp.org/

Version Control/Backup tools and Document Managers

Name	Functionality	Homepage
Git (with GUI)	Distributed Version control	http://git-scm.com/
SVN (RapidSVN)	Subversion Version Control	http://rapidsvn.tigris.org/
backintime(with GUI)	Backup tool	http://backintime.le-web.org/
pdfshuffler	PDF manager	Homepage
BibTool	Bibliography manager	Homepage

Miscellaneous

Name	Functionality	Homepage
Wine	Run Windows applications	http://www.winehq.org/
hevea	LaTex to HTML translator	http://hevea.inria.fr/
IPython	Productive Interactive Computing	http://ipython.org/

--Amitksaha 22:17, 19 October 2011 (UTC)