CTC Partner Contributions
CTC partners with leading software and hardware companies such as Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Unisys,
MathWorks, Fluent, and Verari Systems Software. We help our partners bring better
products to market faster. In return, they provide us with benefits of value
to you, such as early release versions of their software, advance roadmaps, and
streamlined technical support.
CTC also operates a Corporate Program. Our Members include Fortune 500 leaders Boeing,
Corning, and Pfizer and start-ups such as Flagstone Reinsurance. They leverage our staff,
systems, and R&D to help them develop and deploy new platforms and applications.
For information on CTC partners and our Corporate Program, please visit
http://www.tc.cornell.edu/corporate.
Free (public domain) Software
Many valuable software and especially utility programs are available in the public
domain, and we have installed those which make sense for CTC users.
Some examples are perl, python, cygwin, R, and various editors and libraries.
Cornell-wide Discounted Software Purchases
Some of the software installed at the Theory Center is also available for users
to install on their own workstations at low or no cost thanks to agreements made
with the vendor for site licenses or volume discounts. CTC software acquired through
or available under site licenses includes:
- Exceed
- Maple
- Mathematica
- Matlab
- Splus
- Symantec Anti-virus
Cornell has many more software packages available under site license or with volume
discounts, most of which are coordinated through CIT (some are purchased by CTC
and shared with other departments).
Some packages are available
at no cost to individual users; others are available at a much lower price than
if it were purchased individually.
For more information and to see the complete
list of site licenses, see the Software Information Directory at
http://www.cit.cornell.edu/software/licenses/.
CTC-purchased Software
Additional software packages are purchased by CTC when it is determined that a particular
application is needed by a number of CTC users. However, the budget for software
is limited and we cannot purchase every software package desired by every user.
In some cases when a specific application is not widely used, the users who have
a critical need for it are asked to contribute to the cost.
For some site licenses and concurrent licenses purchased by/through CTC, users may
be permitted to install the application on their own machines if they contribute
to the purchase price. This reduces the costs to each department as ooposed
to each purchasing individual licenses. Currently CTC shares licenses for
Gaussian, Abaqus and Tecplot.
Software Purchased by Other Departments
Occasionally, other departments at Cornell purchase software licenses and let CTC
iaccess their license; one example is Ansys.
