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Welcome to Socrates

Socrates will be going out of service soon. At this time no new accounts are being created on Socrates.

IST has begun the effort to retire the Socrates and Arachne services and to move clients to new services that are appropriate for their technical needs. For information about the Socrates and Arachne Abatement Project see
http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/serverabatement.html

IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT: FAQ answers about the Socrates/Archne retirement

Published answers to questions about the retirement of Socrates and Arachne are available at http://ist.berkeley.edu/services/tam/faqs.html.

Socrates Shared Unix System :

Socrates is a Sun Fire v880 Server that provides computational software and general UNIX computing for the Berkeley Campus. Mathematical and Statistical software is also available for use.

Socrates offers multiple languages (such as C, C++, perl, Java and Fortran) as well as Mathematical Libraries (such as NAG and IMSL), and Statistical Software (such as SAS, SPSS, Matlab and Maple). Please see the complete list of added products on the Products web page.

 

Please send comments to: socrates_consult@berkeley.edu. For additional questions, see Questions.

Last updated 8 April 2008