The software packages listed below are available for installation on individual computer systems (primarily Windows PCs). Licensing and installation requirements differ for each software package.
Click on a software package for details on licensing restrictions, available platforms (hardware and operating system), and cost.
If you have any questions, please contact the Help Desk in the Voorhees Computing Center (276-7777, consult@rpi.edu).
| SOFTWARE PACKAGE | DESCRIPTION |
| Abaqus | Suite of general purpose FEA (Finite Element Analysis) software for linear and non-linear problems in engineering. |
| Altair HyperWorks | HyperWorks is a suite of CAE software for modeling and assembly, Linear Analysis, Robust Design and Optimization, Visualization and Collaboration, Manufacturing Process Simulation, Process Automation and Engineering Data Management. |
| Aspen | Aspen is a suite of software applications used in process industries for modeling the manufacturing and supply chain processes. |
| Bentley | Design, construction, and operation software suite |
| EES | General Equation Solver for coupled non-linear algebraic and differential equations. |
| Fluent | Suite of CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) software. |
| GeoStudio | Suite of applications for geotechnical and geo-environmental modeling |
| LabVIEW | Graphical programming environment for measurement and automation |
| LabVIEW Modules and National Instruments Software | LabVIEW add-on modules plus other National Instruments software. |
| LaTeX | Document formatting system based on the typesetting program TeX. |
| MapBasic | Application development environment for MapInfo |
| MapInfo | Desktop mapping software |
| Maple | Symbolic mathematics package with arbitrary precision arithmetic and plotting capabilities |
| Mathematica | Computational tool for arbitrary precision arithmetic, symbolic mathematics, and visualization. |
| Matlab for Faculty and Staff Only | Matlab combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization with a high level programming language. |
| Matlab for Students Only | Matlab combines numeric computation, advanced graphics and visualization with a high level programming language. |
| MSC.ADAMS | Family of interactive motion simulation software. |
| MSC.Nastran | Program for analyzing Stress, Vibration, Dynamic, Non-linear and heat transfer. |
| MSC.Patran | Pre- and Post Processor for CAE simulation. |
| NX (Unigraphics) | Computer-aided design and analysis package |
| SecureCRT | Secure replacement for telnet |
| SolidWorks | Computer-aided design package |
| System Center Endpoint Protection | Client Security solution that protects Institute desktop, laptop and server operating systems against malware and exploits. |
| Description | The Abaqus suite includes: CAE,Standard, Explicit, Euler Lagrange, Parasolid Cad Porter and NX Import. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows and Linux |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an Abaqus on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows and Linux versions of Abaqus over the network. |
| Description | HyperWorks is a suite of CAE software for modeling and assembly, Linear Analysis, Robust Design and Optimization, Visualization and Collaboration, Manufacturing Process Simulation, Process Automation and Engineering Data Management. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an altair on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows version of hyperworks over the network. |
| Description | The Aspen suite includes:Aspen Plus, Aspen Dynamics, Aspen Batch Plus, Aspen Properties, etc. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows only |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an aspen on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows version of aspen over the network. |
| Description | The Bentley software suite includes:
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| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a Bentley software on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows version of Bentley software over the network. |
| Description | EES is a General Equation Solver for coupled non-linear algebraic and differential equations. EES includes a library of thermodynamic and transport properties for hundreds of substances. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an ees on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing ees over the network. |
| Description | The Fluent suite includes: CFX-Pre, Fluent Prep & Post, Fuel cell, Geometry Connections, Design Modeler, and HPC (4 cores/Processors). |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows and Linux |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| Restrictions | Commercial activity including paid-for consulting is prohibited. Research results must be in the public domain. If not, a commerical research license is required. |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a fluent on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows and Linux versions of fluent over the network. |
| Description | GeoStudio is a suite of applications for geotechnical and geo-environmental modeling. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a geostudio on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing geostudio over the network. |
| Description | LabVIEW is a graphical programming environment used for measurement and automation. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows, Macintosh |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a LabVIEW on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows version of LabVIEW over the network. |
| Description | The package includes LabVIEW add-on modules plus National Instruments software. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty and staff |
| Platforms | Windows, Macintosh, Linux |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | Rensselaer ID card |
| How to Obtain | Contact the VCC Help Desk (518-276-7777) |
| Description | LaTeX is based on TeX, which was designed especially for formatting mathematical and scientific text. It also handles long, complex documents with ease, and there is a local "thesis" template that meets the requirements of the Rensselaer Graduate School. LaTeX is not WYSIWYG; it uses text markup that looks similar to HTML. |
| Licensed For | Freely Available |
| Platforms | Windows, Mac OS 10, Linux, UNIX |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password to download Windows version from RCS space |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to see information and instructions for obtaining and installing distributions for Windows, Macs, and UNIX systems. Windows version can be installed from RCS space; other versions from the web. |
| Description | MapBasic is an application development environment for MapInfo. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students,faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a MapBasic license agreement and to receive MapBasic installation instructions. |
| Description | MapInfo is desktop mapping software that helps you see patterns and trends in your data. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students,faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a MapInfo license agreement and to receive MapInfo installation instructions. |
| Description | Maple is a symbolic mathematics package that can integrate, differentiate, solve equations, compute to arbitray precision and plot and animate 2D and 3D functions. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows, Mac, Linux, and Solaris |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a Maple license agreement and to receive Maple installation instructions. |
| Description | Mathematica is a computational tool for arbitrary precision arithmetic, symbolic mathematics, and visualization. The number of concurrent users is limited. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux, and Mac |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a Mathematica on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Mathematica over the network. |
| Description | The flexible MATLAB environment lets you perform advanced analyses, visualize data, and develop algorithms in a fraction of the time it takes in C, C++, or Fortran. Licensed software includes Matlab, Simulink, Bioinformatics Toolbox, Curve Fitting Toolbox, Matlab Compiler, Control System Toolbox, Data Acquisition Toolbox, Parallel Computing Toolbox, DSP System Toolbox, Instrument Control Toolbox, Image Processing Toolbox, SimMechanics, Optimization Toolbox,Signal Processing Toolbox, Simscape, Statistics Toolbox, and Symbolic Math Toolbox. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer faculty and staff only |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux on Intel, and Mac OS 10 |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a Matlab on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Matlab over the network. |
| Description | The flexible MATLAB environment lets you perform advanced analyses, visualize data, and develop algorithms in a fraction of the time it takes in C, C++, or Fortran. Licensed software includes Matlab, Simulink, Bioinformatics Toolbox, Control System Toolbox,Curve Fitting Toolbox, Data Acquisition Toolbox, DSP System Toolbox, Image Processing Toolbox, Instrument Control Toolbox, Optimization Toolbox,Signal Processing Toolbox,SimMechanics, Simscape, Stateflow, Statistics Toolbox, and Symbolic Math Toolbox. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer Students Only |
| Platforms | Windows, Linux on Intel, and Mac OS 10 |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a Matlab on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows, Mac, and Linux versions of Matlab over the network. |
| Description | Family of interactive motion simulation software. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows and Linux |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| Restrictions | Commercial activity including paid-for consulting is prohibited. Research results must be owned by Rensselaer or in the public domain. |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an mcs.adams on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows and Linux versions of msc.adams over the network. |
| Description | Program for analyzing Stress, Vibration, Dynamic, Non-linear and heat transfer. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows and Linux |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| Restrictions | Commercial activity including paid-for consulting is prohibited. Research results must be owned by Rensselaer or in the public domain. |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an mcs.nastran on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows and Linux versions of msc.nastran over the network. |
| Description | Pre- and Post Processor for CAE simulation. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows and Linux |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete an mcs.patran on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows and Linux versions of msc.patran over the network. |
| Description | NX is a suite of integrated 3-D CAD/CAM/CAE applications. NX touches the full range of development processes in product design, manufacturing and simulation. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows and MAC OS 10 |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| Restrictions | Use of the software for commerical activity including paid-for consulting, training of individuals outside the Rensselaer community, and developing of software for sale or license is prohibited. |
| Export Control Restrictions | This software is Export Administration Regulation (EAR) controlled under ECCN # 5D992. This software cannot be exported (as defined in the EAR) to or used by any foreign national from Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan or Syria. |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a NX license agreement and to receive installation instructions. |
| Description | SecureCRT is a secure version of telnet used to connect to remote systems. All communication with the remote system is encrypted including userid and password. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| Restrictions | This software may not be downloaded or otherwise exported to any country subject to U.S. trade sanctions governing the software. |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a SecureCRT license agreement and to receive installation instructions. |
| Description | SolidWorks is a computer-aided design package capable of modeling 3/D solids. |
| Licensed For | Rensselaer students, faculty, and staff |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Identification Required | RCS userID and password |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a SolidWorks license agreement and to receive installation instructions. |
| Description | System Center Endpoint Protections is a Client Security solution that protects Institute desktop, laptop and server operating systems against malware and exploits. |
| Licensed Only For | Any full time employee from Rensselaer departments that are part of the Microsoft Campus Agreements or Students from the Mobile Computing Program |
| Platforms | Windows |
| Cost | No Charge |
| Restriction | Only full time employee from Rensselaer departments that are part of the Microsoft Campus Agreements or Students from the Mobile Computing Program |
| How to Obtain | Click HERE to complete a System Center Endpoint Protection on-line license agreement and to receive instructions for installing the Windows version of Forefront over the network. |