You can specify license information during installation or by running the Harris License Administrator. If you have an account on the LC platforms, you can use the LLNL LC site license to process data generated on Livermore Computing resources. If you do not see the installer you are looking for, please contact Licensing General LC users can download the installer from the CZ Confluence page.
Only license administrators can download the IDL software from. The IDL Analyst and IMSL libraries are not available on OS X as of July 2012. The software is available for Linux, Mac and Windows.
You can install IDL on your local workstation.
Help is available from the LC Hotline: (925) 422-4531 Download They also provide on-site and online training. HelpĪt the UNIX shell prompt, you can access the help documentation by typing idlhelpĪ live online version of this documentation is available on 元Harris Geospatial's documentation site. You are encouraged to use the IDL Virtual Machine instead of the main IDL application whenever possible in order to free up licenses for other users. sav) file, you can run it with the IDL Virtual Machine instead, which requires no license at all! See the IDL Virtual Machine Applications documentation for more information. If all you need to do is run an IDL SAVE (. Running without a license: All IDL installations also include the IDL Virtual Machine. So if you get 16 CPUs on one node, each with 4 cores, you might be able to make good use of as many as 64 copies of IDL using only a single license! Please ask for more details. This can be confirmed easily by running them by hand and checking the license server records.
How to get "extra" "free" licenses: An important quirk of IDL licensing is that IDL checks out only one license per node/DISPLAY, no matter how many instances of IDL you run on that node. It's a vicious circle.Ģ) If you are using multiple licenses, and we run out of licenses, please consider releasing one or two so that we are not out any more.
LC has two licenses for AMS on the OCF and two on the SCF.ġ) Please do not hold onto IDL licenses overnight ("hoarding") unless you are actually using them - hoarding licenses creates artificial scarcity and encourages further hoarding by others. Calling one of the IDL AMS routines will cause an IDL Analyst license to be checked out to you until you quit IDL. To use the Advanced Math and Statistics (AMS) routines that are available with IDL Analyst, start up IDL in the manner shown above. If you are running the X window system, IDL can also be started with the idlde command, which invokes a convenient multiple-document interface called the IDL Development Environment. Starting IDL with the idl command begins a traditional IDL session using a simple text command line interface. IDL for UNIX can be used with one of two different interfaces. For more information about using this feature, see this help article: Quick tips for customizing your IDL program search path Usage You can also use the environment variable IDL_PATH to include personal files in IDL's search path. The module load idl command will setup your PATH and any other needed environment variables. The actual installation directories are in /usr/tce/packages/idl Settings You can specify a particular version in the module command, e.g., module load idl/8.8.1 Type module avail idl to see the available options. Multiple versions may be accessible via modules. Links to the latest version exist in /usr/tce/bin
Note that IDL for Mac OS X does not support AMS or ISML. IDL at LLNL includes four licenses for the Advanced Math and Statistics (AMS) package, two on the OCF and two on the SCF networks.
IDL is the programming language of choice for many scientists and engineers because it’s easy to learn, easy to use, and requires fewer lines of code than other programming languages, making it easier and faster to go from data to discovery. With IDL you can interpret your data, expedite discoveries, and deliver powerful applications to market. IDL is a scientific programming language used across disciplines to extract meaningful visualizations from complex numerical data.
IDL (Interactive Data Language) is a product from 元Harris Geospatial. NOTE IDL is not currently available on CORAL systems.