• Question: What computer and software do you use in your work?

    Asked by sciencedwarf to Iain on 8 Mar 2014.
    • Photo: Iain Moal

      Iain Moal answered on 8 Mar 2014:


      The computer at my desk is a normal PC, but instead of Windows I use Linux, as I find it is a better for doing scientific computing. I use this computer to login to two different supercomputers at my work. The first is the massive one that I have a picture of on my profile. The other is smaller, but I don’t have to share it with as many other people. I’m actually in the process of buying another 64 CPUs for this computer, to make my calculations faster.

      As for software, I tend to use my own software a lot. I write my programs in Python and C++ programming languages. Otherwise, I use technical software written by other laboratories.

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