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Application Details
- Description : IDL, short for Interactive Data Language, is a programming language used for data analysis. It is popular in particular areas of science, such as astronomy, atmospheric physics and medical imaging. IDL shares a common syntax with PV-Wave and originated from the same codebase, though the languages have subsequently diverged in detail.
- Versions : 8.4
- Module names : idl/8.4
- License: University of Hull Engineering department, restricted by physics department
Usage Examples
IDL Programs
Below is an example of a very basic IDL program called helloworld.pro
; helloworld.pro pro helloworld,what print,'HELLO ',what end
And the corresponding main.pro program
; main.pro pro main helloworld,'WORLD' end
Batch Script
#!/bin/bash #SBATCH --job-name=sayhello #SBATCH --output=slurm.out #SBATCH --error=slurm.err #SBATCH --partition=compute module add idl/8.4 idl -e main
Batch Submission
[username@login01 ~]$ sbatch idl.job Submitted batch job 289543
Interactive Mode
IDL can be invoked an interactive mode as below:
[user@login01 ~]$ module add idl/8.4 [pysdlb@login01 ~]$ idl IDL Version 8.4 (linux x86_64 m64). (c) 2014, Exelis Visual Information Solutions, Inc. Installation number: 406930. Licensed for use by: STFC - Dept of Physics IDL>