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Software

There are a variety of different operating systems running at the SSC, and different versions of the software must be accessible depending with OS you are running.

For this reason and others, it is best to install the Scientific Applications package maintained by the ISG; doing this will make all of the OS differences transparent, and will insure you have the correct path, binaries, environment variables, etc., set-up for things to run smoothly, and correctly, on your computer. This includes common astro software such as Super Mongo, IRAF, CIAO, Python, etc.

At the SSC, all of these are bundled under SCIAPPS. 
Email Lee Rottler for more information:
rottler@ipac.caltech.edu