VLF Group compute cluster – Software

Software

A minimum suite of tools is installed on each node:

  • OpenMPI

    Open MPI, optimized for the infiniband fabric, is installed in /usr/local. MPICH2 is not installed, as its performance was generally lower than that of OpenMPI.

  • MATLAB r2010b

    Installed in /usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b

    Software

    A minimum suite of tools is installed on each node:

    • OpenMPI

      Open MPI, optimized for the infiniband fabric, is installed in /usr/local. MPICH2 is not installed, as its performance was generally lower than that of OpenMPI.

    • MATLAB r2010b

      Installed in /usr/local/MATLAB/R2010b

    • Compilers

      The gnu compilers are available in /usr/bin. The MPI-wrapped versions of these are in /usr/local/bin (mpic++, mpif77, mpicc, mpif90, etc.).

    • Editors

      Vim and emacs are both installed.

    • VNC server

      VNC server (run with vncserver) is installed on the head node only, to make interacting with the MATLAB and other GUIs more convenient, should you choose not to use X11.

    • ATLAS/Lapack

      A tuned atlas is provided in /usr/local/lib

    Any other tools you want or need, please contact your administrator. If you want a tool but don’t believe it has general use (like a special build of Petsc), please just put it in your personal directory on the shared filesystem at /shared/users/username.