How Faculty and Staff can Obtain Mathematica:

Home Use:

home-use copies of Mathematica are available to faculty and academic staff. (Kerberos password required).

Labs/on-campus Offices :

Obtain the media through the Office of Information Technology Front Office, 111 Cummington Street, open 9am to 5pm Monday through Friday. Only University-owned machines whose primary purpose is teaching and/or academic research are eligible. System Requirements and loan agreement

OIT Application Server:

Mathematica is available on departmental machines that run BU custom Solaris and Linux. Ask your system administrator whether your UNIX / Linux machines are connected to the Office of Information Technology's Application Server and if so, whether /usr/local/IT/bin is in your $PATH.

Academic Computing Cluster:

For those without access to a departmental or personal system, the latest version is installed on ACS-LINUX.BU.EDU. Contact owner-mathematica-list@bu.edu for more information.

Faculty or research sponsored SCF project:

Faculty and research staff can request Scientific Computing Facility resources on a supercomputer for a class or current project. This is a good solution when a project requires extra power.

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