Software Metasites

These are sites which list available software for specific application areas. Not all of the software at these sites will work on Linux platforms, although a great deal of it does.

Alternative Operating Systems

This includes embedded, mainframe, network, parallel, research and other types of OS.

[http://www.indexos.com/]

Artificial Intelligence Software

Various categories including traditional AI, neural networks, evolutionary computation, agents, and artificial life and other complex systems.

[http://www.emsl.pnl.gov:2080/proj/neuron/ai/systems/]

Artificial Life on the Web

An artificial life site featuring alife, genetic algorithms and cellular automata programs written in cross-platform web languages.

[http://www.aridolan.com/index.html]

Assembly Language Resources

Software and other resources for programming in assembly language.

[http://www.cera2.com/softd/assmhot.htm]

Astronomical Software and Documentation

A collection of software packages dealing with astronomy.

[http://asds.stsci.edu/asds/]

Automated Reasoning Systems http://www-formal.stanford.edu/clt/ARS/ars-db.html

[http://www-formal.stanford.edu/clt/ARS/ars-db.html]

Biocatalog

Software in molecular biology and genetics.

[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/biocat/]

Biological Software and Databases

Archives for biological software and databases around the world.

[http://www.bis.med.jhmi.edu/Dan/software/software.html]

Chemical Informatics

Several data storage and transfer formats used in chemistry.

[http://www.indiana.edu/~cheminfo/informatics/cinformstds.html]

CodEc for Economics and Econometrics

A site whose mission is to collect and provide computer programs of interest for economists and econometricians.

[http://netec.wustl.edu/CodEc.html]

CMU AI Repository

This contains just about every piece of freely available software even remote related to artificial intelligence.

[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/air.html]

Compiler Construction Tools

Annotated list of compiler construction kits, lexer and parser generators, attribute grammar systems, transformation tools, backend generators, and more.

[http://www.first.gmd.de/cogent/catalog/index.html]

Compilers and Interpreters

Freely available software language tools including compilers, compiler generators, interpreters, translators, libraries, assemblers, and more.

[http://www.idiom.com/free-compilers/]

Computational Geometry Software

A list of computational geometry programs and packages.

[http://www.geom.umn.edu/software/cglist/]

Computer Vision Software

Software related to computer vision including research code, image processing toolkits, display tools, synthetic data generators, and mathematical toolkits.

[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cil/v-source.html]

CORBA Page

A list of free and otherwise implementations of CORBA.

[http://adams.patriot.net/~tvalesky/freecorba.html]

International Cryptography

Everything you want or need to know about cryptography and software to implement encryption and decryption algorithms.

[http://www.cs.hut.fi/crypto/]

Emulators

Software that emulates games or computers.

[http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Emulators/index.shtml]

FFT Software

A veritable plethora of various implementations of the Fast Fourier Transform.

[http://www.fftw.org/benchfft/doc/ffts.html]

Formal Methods Tools

Tools for working with various formal specification languages including CCS, CSP, Estelle, LOTOS, HOL, FOL, OMT, Petri nets, Prolog, RSL, SDL, VDM and Z.

[http://www.csr.ncl.ac.uk/projects/FME/InfRes/tools/]

Formal Methods Virtual Library

Information about formal methods including software for working with formal specification languages.

[http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/formal-methods.html]

Fuzzy Logic and Neurofuzzy Software

Software related to fuzzy logic, fuzzy arithmetic, and the combination of neural nets and fuzzy logic.

[http://www.isis.ecs.soton.ac.uk/resources/nfinfo/fzsware.shtml]

GNU Project

The home page of the GNU Project featuring all of the nifty software they've developed over the years.

[http://www.gnu.org/]

Graph Drawing Tools and Related Work

Tools for graph drawing, layout, and visualization.

[http://www.cs.uni-sb.de/RW/users/sander/html/gstools.html]

GUI Toolkit and Framework Page

Packages for creating graphical user interfaces or GUIs.

[http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/7184/guitool.html]

HyperRFC

A hyper-linked collection of all currently available RFCs.

[http://www.csl.sony.co.jp/rfc/]

Linear Algebra Software

Links to and comparisons of linear algebra software packages.

[http://www.netlib.org/utk/people/JackDongarra/la-sw.html]

Machine Learning Resources

Information about various aspects of machine learning including clustering, decision trees, neural nets, genetic algorithms, etc.

[http://www.ai.univie.ac.at/oefai/ml/ml-resources.html]

Mesh and Grid Generation

Information about mesh and grid generation including research groups, people, news, software, conferences, literature, etc.

[http://www-users.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/
~roberts/meshgeneration.html]

Molecular Linux

Molecular biology software for Linux platforms.

[http://www.ebi.ac.uk/software/software.html]

National HPCC Software Exchange

Software related to parallel processing of one kind or another including benchmarks, data analysis and visualization, distributed processing tools, numerical software, parallel processing tools, and scientific and engineering applications.

[http://www.nhse.org/rib/repositories/nhse/catalog/]

Natural Language Software Registry

A summary of the capabilities and sources of language processing software available to researchers. The categories include speech signal analysis, morphological analysis, syntactic analysis, formalisms, semantic and pragmatic analysis, generation, knowledge representation systems, multicomponent systems, NLP-tools, data sets, and applications and text processing.

[http://www.dfki.de/lt/registry/]

Network Measurement Tool Taxonomy

An overview of Internet and TCP/IP performance measurement tools and efforts.

[http://www.caida.org/Tools/taxonomy.html]

Number Theory Software

Software that might be of interest to number theorists, e.g. calculator programs, algebraic number theory programs, etc.

[http://www.maths.uq.oz.au/~krm/listi.html]

Operating Systems Projects

A list of operating system projects divided into various categories, e.g. research, microkernel, object-oriented, persistent, free, etc.

[http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html]

Operations Research Software

A site with information on all aspects of operations research including an extensive list of software packages.

[http://mat.gsia.cmu.edu/]

Optimization Software

Optimization software in many categories including linear, integer, and quadratic programming as well as network, unconstrained, and bound-constrained optimization and several more.

[http://www.mcs.anl.gov/home/otc/Guide/SoftwareGuide/]

Parallel C++ Projects

A collection of projects involving both parallel processing and C++.

[ftp://riacs.edu/pub/Excalibur/
parcpp-projects.html]

Parascope

A listing of parallel computing sites including software and projects.

[http://computer.org/parascope/]

Pattern Recognition and Image Processing

The categories include pattern recognition, neural networks and learning; image processing and vision; and OCR and handwriting. There are also unsorted lists of software and hardware announcements.

[http://www.ph.tn.tudelft.nl/PRInfo/PRInfo/software.html]

Programming Languages for the JVM

A list of over 60 different systems which implement a programming language for the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) other than Java.

[http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de/~tolk/vmlanguages.html]

ScriptSearch

Advertised as the largest CGI and script resource on the Internet, this contains links to scripts written in over a dozen languages and in over twenty categories.

[http://www.scriptsearch.com/]

Security Tools

Free security-related software at the Freefire Project web site.

[http://sites.inka.de/sites/lina/freefire-l/index.en.html]

Seismology Software for Linux

A collection of programs for earthquake seismology, exploration seismology, general graphics and plotting, and mathematics.

[http://www.seismo.unr.edu/ftp/pub/ichinose/LINUX/
seismolinux.html]

Seismological Software Library

A huge collection of software related to seismology.

[http://orfeus.knmi.nl/working.groups/wg4/index.html]

SGML/XML Software

Freely available SGML-related software including parsers, editors, formatting tools, and tools for data conversion, transformation, and manipulation. Also sections on DSSSL and XML tools.

[http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/publicSW.html]

Software Engineering Resources

Software and all sorts of other information about the broad topic of software engineering.

[http://www.csci.csusb.edu/doc/se.html]

Statistical Programs for Astronomy

Links to programs implementing statistical methods chosen for their potential utility for research in astronomy and other physical sciences.

[http://www.astro.psu.edu/statcodes/]

Stony Brook Algorithm Repository

A comprehensive collection of algorithm implementations for over seventy of the most fundamental problems in combinatorial algorithms.

[http://www.cs.sunysb.edu/~algorith/index.html]

3-D Modeling and Rendering

A central location for information and software relating to 3-D graphic modeling, rendering, ray tracing, etc. under the Linux OS.

[http://www.pages.drexel.edu/undergrad/gen22/linux.html]

Window Managers for X

A guide to window managers for the X Window System with descriptions, screenshots, and configuration files for many window managers.

[http://www.PLiG.org/xwinman/]

Zooland Artificial Life Software

Software that implementats one or another form of what is called artificial life

[http://alife.santafe.edu/~joke/zooland/]