Skip to content

Cortex Starter Edition

Download

Visit our website, click on Sign Up, and register. You will be redirected to our download page. Please select the Starter App button in the top menu bar. The drop-down menus Operating system and Package offer you the choice between three different operating systems and their respective architectures: win(x64), darwin (x64), darwin (arm64).

Help with Operating System Selection

For Microsoft Windows (64-bit) machines, please select win(x64)

For Apple macOS (64-bit) machines

Up to 2023 with Intel/AMD x64 chip, please select darwin (x64)

From 2023 with M1/M2/Mx chip, please select darwin (arm64)

Note for Users with Terminal Knowledge
Package Operating System Tip
win (x64) Microsoft Windows -------
darwin (x64) MacOs *Terminal input: uname -a' Terminal output: .... x86_64 GNU/Linux |
darwin (arm64) Mac with M1 and M2 chips *Terminal input: uname -a Terminal output: .... arm 64

* Terminal: command/space opens Spotlight, type Terminal and confirm

Packages

For each operating system, you may choose between three packages with different data inventories. Feel free to download all three.

  1. CortexStarterApp with NYC Taxi demo data inventory

    • information about taxi rides in New York - an extract (3 million taxi rides in 265 taxi zones) of all available data

  2. CortexStarterApp with Lego demo data inventory

    • a data inventory based on download files from the website Rebrickable, containing comprehensive information about LEGO® bricks, sets, themes, etc.

  3. CortexStarterApp with empty data inventory

    • an empty environment for importing and using your own data

Installation on macOS

After downloading and opening the app in the corresponding folder, drag and drop the icon of the downloaded program into the applications folder. In your finder, you will find the folder Cortex-IP-StarterApp under applications. Alternatively, you can also find and start the app via launchpad or spotlight search.

Installation on Microsoft Windows

The Microsoft Windows operating system requires that software downloaded from websites meets Microsoft’s requirements. If this is not possible for beta and test versions, the following manual adjustments are required.

Cortex AG offers the possibility to download compressed package files (zip files) from this download page. These zip files are assigned a quarantine mark by the Microsoft Windows operating system, which you must remove after downloading. Only then can you execute the files contained in the zip file.

To change the mark, follow these steps:

  1. Open the file dialog with a right-click the zip file
  2. Click on properties - the file properties window opens.
  3. In the first tab general, at the bottom, you will see the security section with a note indicating that the file is from another computer
  4. Check the box unblock
  5. Confirm with the OK button
  6. Unzip the zip file into a working directory

The unpacked directory contains the executable file cip-se-starter (cip-se-starter.exe). A double-click opens the application, where you can launch a browser window with the Uniplex application by clicking the button Start Uniplex Web Application.

Documentation

On the Cortex Starter Edition documentation page, you will find a detailed description of the data inventories in the various packages. Discover our videos there to help you get started with and use the Starter Edition effectively.