> Which brings me to my next question... Mathematica's on the Pantheon. I'd
> assume it's there so we can use it; nonetheless, does anyone think that
> the powers-that-be would find it angering if I were to regularly run it
> off the Pantheon and send the display to my own X terminal? (Yes, I'd be
> likely to see lower load averages on the Zoo, but it seems that the Zoo's
> mathematica license expired at the end of last August and hasn't been
> renewed, at least on the nodes I tried.)
Well, I guess I'm one of the powers-that-be, so I can answer this one. You
are welcome, nay, encouraged to run Mathematica on mercury and biscu, using
your own machine as an X server. If you are going to be using it a lot, it's
probably worth your while to get an account on the latter, which is a
statlab-run machine specifically for scientific computing (see
http://biscu.its.yale.edu for information). There is usually almost no one
logged into biscu and it's a fast machine (a Sun Ultra 2 with 128MB).
I don't know what the policies are for actually obtaining a Linux version of
Mathematica, but I can tell you that this program is administered by
Scientific Computing Support (http://www.yale.edu/secf).
If you want to write up a detailed explanation of how to set up the fonts,
etc, to run Mathematica using a Linux machine as a display, I'll add it to
PantheonHelp.
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