Software

Science

Astro stuff

• Belt (which needs PETSc): Rolf's PLUTO version (manual for compiling)
  • Restarting belt automatically
  • Scaling tests (for belt)
• Visit Tips and tricks
• pyPLUTO: a Python module to read and analyse PLUTO output

Online Tools

• A nice, free 3D-plotter (in cases when Mathematica is somehow unavailable)
• A large language model with different available AIs accessible through your university account: Chat-AI

Other

• avoiding O(N²) for long range interactions:
  • ScaFaCoS
  • Multilevel Summation Method

Network & Collaboration

• VPN
• SSH and SCP
• Two-Factor Authentification (2FA)
• University GitLab (https://git.uni-due.de)
• University Zoom
• University Nextcloud: This is where we have the group calendar as well, which you can sync to your iphone/ipad.

Publishing

• MS Office for faculty members. Note that LibreOffice (Windows, Linux; use package manager) is an excellent and free alternative but caveat emptor about some formatting incompatibilities.
• Zotero
• making bibliographies compact (e.g. for proposals): https://github.com/lmytime/tex_compact_bib