Software

University Software

University Computers – Departmental Sales:

Through the IT Help Center licensed software, including Microsoft and Adobe, can be purchased at substantial savings. These items may be purchased with an approved requisition. For a complete list of software please visit: http://www.bu.edu/tech/help/sales/departmental/index.html

Software Distribution Center:

At the Software Distribution Center you will find access to a variety of free software and shareware, as well as commercial software licensed to all or part of the University. For complete details please visit: http://www.bu.edu/software.

McAfee VirusScan	Cisco VPN	WinSCP	PuTTy
X-Win32	PSFTP	SPSS

Systems Support Software:

At http://www.bu.edu/systems-support/software you can find a list of software offered through the AFS server on campus (OIT application server). Some of the software packages offered through AFS to BU Linux machines are:

Maple:	10 shared licenses
Mathematica:	student, faculty or academic staff may also get a home-use copy
Matlab:	network based Matlab for faculty, staff, and sponsored graduate students on university owned machines

College Software

The software listed below is available to anyone in the College without the purchase of a license. Most other software including but not limited to Microsoft and Adobe software packages need to be purchased through University Computers (see above).

Abaqus	4 floating licenses, 1 processing license (certain installation restrictions apply)
Comsol Multiphysics	90 Class-Kit licenses, 4 Floating licenses (certain installation restrictions apply)
SolidWorks/COSMOS	College-wide site license
Pro/ENGINEER	College-wide site license
Labview	certain installation restrictions apply

Departmental Software

Within each department and for various labs additional software has been purchased. Please contact ENG IT for any questions regarding departmental and lab software.