LabVIEW   howto

C&CZ administers the licenses for the use of LabVIEW within FNWI. LabVIEW by NI is a graphical programming environment engineers use to develop automated research, validation, and production test systems. From version 2022Q3 LabVIEW no longer works standalone and unlimited in terms of time. C&CZ manages a LabVIEW license server with a small number of licenses that have to be renewed every year. Users of this license must be registered on the license server....

Updated Feb 3, 2023  ·  Peter van Campen · Created Mar 18, 2022

Gaussian   howto

Prerequisities Science (CNCZ) account. Being member of the qm, qmorgchem or qmteaching and gaussian groups (ask Jan for access). Vpn (when working from home). SSH client (linux usually has OpenSSH, windows - for instance MobaXterm or Putty). X11 client (linux usually has OpenSSH, windows - for instance MobaXterm (optional) WinSCP Video guides GUIDE how to setup environment for Gaussian calculations in windows. Setting-up the environment (to be done once) To submit calculations easily you need to set-up the environment first....

Updated Dec 31, 2023  ·  Ben Polman · Created Dec 13, 2021

Mathematica   howto

Mathematica is a mathematical software package made by Wolfram Research. C&CZ manages the network license for the concurrent use of Mathematica within Radboud University. The license for a small number, ca. 20, of concurrent users of Mathematica, is paid for by C&CZ and may be used freely by students and staff of the Faculty of Science. Until the end of 2023, there temporarily was an unlimited license for all RU staff and students....

Updated Dec 19, 2023  ·  Peter van Campen · Created Dec 5, 2021

Maple   howto

Maple by Waterloo Maple’s Maplesoft is an interactive computer-algebra system, for which C&CZ has acquired a license. The license of Maple is a 4-user concurrent license in 2023 and a 2-user in 2024.

Updated Dec 1, 2023  ·  Peter van Campen · Created Dec 5, 2021

GitLab   howto

About GitLab “GitLab is an incredibly powerful open source code collaboration platform, git repository manager, issue tracker and code reviewer.” Quoted from the GitLab website Logging in Info The URL for GitLab is: http://gitlab.science.ru.nl Science login Although anyone with a Science Login can login to GitLab, only people that have actually logged in to GitLab will be visible for other GitLab users. Keep that in mind when adding people to projects or groups....

VPN   howto

VPN A VPN makes it possible to get secure access to the internet or to the campus network from anywhere. The computer at home (or anywhere on the internet) in the latter case becomes part of the campus network. In this way you can get access to services that are normally only accessible from computers on campus. The most common of such services are connecting to disk shares or to special servers....

Printing   howto

Printing Through the Radboud University printing system, students and employees are able to print, scan, and copy anywhere on campus, regardless of the location or building at which they study or work. When printing, you send your print job to a print queue instead of a specific printer. The next step is to simply retrieve your print job from any printer. Read more… Printing from own laptop. In case printing does not work on self managed devices, documents can be uploaded to https://peage....

MestreNova   howto

Mnova is a multivendor software suite designed for processing data from NMR, LC-MS, GC-MS, and Electronic & Vibrational Spectroscopic techniques (UV-VIS, FT-IR etc.). Mnova is available for installation on Windows, Linux, and MacOS machines. Employees and students from the Faculty of Science can install mestreNova under the university site licence on their personal computer. Currently the faculty holds a site license for MNova 15. Installation & license files can be found on the install share in \install\science\MestreNova....

Slurm   howto

SLURM batch software The Science cn-cluster uses SLURM for batch management. The cluster consists of 2 parts, determined by the ubuntu version, each has its own login node. Currently we have Login node Ubuntu version number of nodes cnlogin20 ubuntu 20.04 22 cnlogin22 ubuntu 22.04 91 Typically you login to the login node and use that to submit your jobs. Terminology term meaning node A node is a single machine in the cluster....

Laptop pool   howto

Lending laptop pool General remarks The Faculty of Science has a pool of 60 RU-standard laptops that can be lent by employees and students of the Faculty. These are standard-RU laptops. They are almost identical in use to the pc’s in the computer labs. The main difference is that reservation is not through Housing & Logistics. The reservation of the laptops is administered by the Library of Science. Use for FNWI education has precedence....

Updated Oct 27, 2025  ·  Simon Oosthoek · Created Aug 14, 2020