LDEO IT Home

LDEO Information Technology group (LDEO-IT)

LDEO-IT provides computing, technology, and infrastructure services to support and enable academic, research, and administrative activities of the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO). We are a strategic enabler for many functions at LDEO. Our services include but not limited to central IT and unified communication and Infrastructure services for the Palisades campus including email, phones, data shares, web publishing, full lifecycle laptop/desktop support, extensive audio/visual support, embedded research computing support, and support for administrative shares and applications on premise and in the cloud.

Popular Services

askit

Box provides current LDEO faculty, staff, students, and affiliates with a simple way to share critical research, collaborate on group assignments, and manage team files, delivering a consistent user experience across campus.

For participation details, visit here.

Crashplan features easy file backup that protects and recovers your precious data. LDEO IT has negotiated a centralized backup protection for your Mac, Windows, and Linux systems. The agreement complies with all the requirements recommended by Columbia University and by national standards including at rest file encryption features. Please review Columbia University Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Policy. 

For technical and purchase details, and installation guides, visit here.

E-mail services

LDEO G Suite (LamontMail)

Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory (LDEO) offers Google Suite to all faculty, students, and staff to help accelerate productivity, and increase collaboration. These are some of the productivity tools included in our G Suite services:

  • Gmail - unlimited storage, built-in instant messaging including voice and video chat, mobile access, spam and virus protection, IMAP
  • Google Calendar - multiple calendars, room/resource scheduling
  • Google Docs - word processing, spreadsheets, forms, presentations, with unlimited storage
  • Google Drive  - file storage and sharing, with unlimited storage
  • Google Sites  - website creation with videos, images, gadgets, and documents integration

Gmail is Google's free email service. You can find Gmail at mail.google.com. If you have a Google account, you already have a Gmail account. Inbox is an optional upgraded user interface for Gmail accounts. 

Access Your Lamont Mail via a Web Browser

Setup Email Client

To setup Email clients on desktop or mobile device, visit here.

FTP files

The primary purpose of the FTP server is to house those files we wish to make publicly available either to LDEO users with accounts or to 'anonymous' external users without local accounts. The ftp server also accepts incoming material (usually too large for an email attachment) from the outside from both users with and without LDEO accounts.

Pickup Folder: pub
Server: ftp.ldeo.columbia.edu
(Using your lamont username and password)
ftp> cd /home/ftp/pub/username
OR for archived files:
ftp> cd /home/ftp/archive/username

Some browsers might support ftp and download access:
ftp://[email protected]/pub
(Using your lamont username)

Drop off Folder: incoming
Server: ftp.ldeo.columbia.edu
ftp> cd incoming/username

Some browsers might support ftp and upload access:
ftp://[email protected]/
(Using the username anonymous and [email protected]_domain as the password)

For additional information on FTP, visit here.

Matlab Software

Matlab, a product of MathWorks, is a high-level technical computing language for data analysis, data visualization, and numeric computation.

Matlab can be used in a wide range of applications, including signal and image processing, communications, control design, test and measurement, financial modeling and analysis, and computational biology. Add-on toolboxes extend the Matlab environment. A list of add-ons, available under the same license, can be found in CUIT page (https://cuit.columbia.edu/content/matlab).

The campus-wide concurrent license information for Matlab use can be obtained from LDEO IT group.

INSTALLATION

Current supported Matlab version is Matlab-R2022a.

You can download Matlab from our software download page using your UNI (Columbia's Username) at
https://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/ldeo/it/software/

For Mac installation use the Matlab_R2022a_maci64.dmg file. If your Mac has Apple Silicon chip, first install rosetta. From terminal window run this command (/usr/sbin/softwareupdate --install-rosetta).

Windows users may need to extract contents of the .iso files first (7zip, winrar, isobuster can be used). Once downloaded, double click the installer to start installation.

Select locale Installation option, and don't create an account with MathWorks.

For File Installation Key and License file, email your request to askit.