Software

Overview

• Astro stuff:
  • Belt (which needs PETSc): Rolf's PLUTO version (manual for compiling)
  • Visit Tips and tricks
  • pyPLUTO: a Python module to read and analyse PLUTO output
  • Scaling tests (for belt)
  • Restarting belt automatically
• Online Tools:
  • a nice, free 3D-plotter (in cases when Mathematica is somehow unavailable)
• Two-Factor Authentification (2FA)
• VPN
• SSH and SCP
• University GitLab (https://git.uni-due.de)
• University Zoom
• University Nextcloud: This is where we have the group calendar as well!
• MS Office. Note that LibreOffice (Windows, Linux; use package manager) is an excellent and free alternative but caveat emptor about some formatting compatibilities.
• Zotero
• Making bibliographies compact (e.g. for proposals): https://github.com/lmytime/tex_compact_bib