Software

Overview	The Scientific Computing and Visualization group provides a broad set of scientific, engineering, mathematical, plotting, and other software packages for research computing. These packages are available to all University faculty members, their students, and their collaborators for research and for educational use in courses related to computational science.
Available To	Students, Faculty, Researchers, External Research Collaborators, Industrial Partners (some limitations may apply)
Benefits	The use of a rich set of preconfigured and compatible software tools and libraries can reduce development efforts and increase productivity. Clients bear no direct costs for software purchases or licenses. SCV maintains the software and hardware it runs on, and has expertise in many of the packages.
Key Features	Access to a broad set of software packages for research computing Usage and assistance from our system administrators and scientific consulting staff
Requirements	Must be on a Scientific Computing Facilities (SCF) research project. Software is not available for commercial use.
Cost	No charge for the BU community. Certain software may be available to industrial partners; there is a charge to industrial partners.
Getting Started	Learn more about SCV Software Packages.