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Overview

The policies regarding the installation of software are on this page.  In general, scientific software is installed as requested with the caveats noted in that section

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CentOS 6 and CentOS 7

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. There are over 100 software applications installed as modules so you should look there before submitting an installation request. As an alternative, you are always welcome to install your own software or other software in your file space.

Puma, Ocelote, and ElGato are built with CentOS 7 along with the system libraries, compilers and utilities that are needed for HPC operations.

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Elgato is also built on CentOS, and is kept consistent with Ocelote.  The big difference is that Elgato does not have a comprehensive suite of software, by design.

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Available Software

Software packages are available as modules and are accessible from the compute nodes of any of our three clusters. They are not available on the login nodes so you will need to be in an interactive session to access them. A list of installed software can be seen by clicking the link below, but may not be as current as using the module avail command

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Modules

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(more information under Module Commands).


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Module Commands

Tip

If multiple versions of software are available on the system, the newest is made the default. This means loading a module without specifying the version will select the most recent. We strongly recommend including version information in your module statements. This ensures that you maintain a consistent environment for your analyses in the event of a software upgrade.

To see, access, and get information on individual software packages available on the system, use the module commands detailed below. If you have trouble accessing the module command, see our FAQ section.

Module CommandDescription

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$ module avail

 Display all the software and versions installed on the system

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$ module avail module_name

Display all installed versions of the software "module_name" 

$ module list

Display the software you have loaded in your environment

$ module what-is

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module_name

Displays some descriptive information

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about a specific module

$ module load module_name

Load a software module in your environment

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$ module unload module_nameUnload a specific software package from your environment

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$ module purge

 Unload all the software modules from your environment

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$ module help

 Display a help menu for the module command

Compilers

Puma, Ocelote, and El Gato all run CentOS7 and have the following compilers available:

CompilerVersionModule Command
Intel 2020.1$ module load intel/2020.1
Intel2020.4$ module load intel/2020.4
gcc5.4.0

$ module load gnu/5.4.0

gcc7.3.0$ module load gnu7/7.3.0
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Installing additional software

To submit a request to have software installed on the

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UArizona HPC systems, use

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. There is no expected

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time frame for how long it takes to install software

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, there are many variables that determine this. If you haven't heard back in a week, it is reasonable for you to follow up

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with a support ticket

You

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may also install software packages into

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the space that is allocated to you with your HPC account.  However, you cannot install software that requires root permission

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or use a method like "yum install" that accesses system paths.

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For information on

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Using Perl

Follow this link for more information on using Perl.

Using Python

Follow this link for more information on using Python.

Using  R

Follow this link for more information on using R.

Using Matlab

Follow this link for more information on using Matlab

Using Anaconda

Anaconda is available as a module and comes with Glueviz, JupyterLab, Jupyter Notebook, Spyder, Orange and RStudio.  It also supports the conda commands for building a personal environment.

More details are at this page.

Using Spark

Apache Spark is a fast and general-purpose cluster computing system.  However it has not been installed for support in a multi-node environment as yet.  That functionality is planned for the future.  It provides high-level APIs in Java, Scala, Python and R, and an optimized engine that supports general execution graphs. It also supports a rich set of higher-level tools including Spark SQL for SQL and structured data processing, MLlib for machine learning, GraphX for graph processing, and Spark Streaming.

There are some simple tests here.

Compilers

  • El Gato  

    ElGato is now running CentOS 7.  The compilers available are:
    • Intel/2019.3: "module load intel"

    • GCC 5.4.0: "module load gnu"
    • GCC 8.3.0: "module load gnu8"
    • LLVM 5.0.1" "module load llvm5" 

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  • There are standard Red Hat versions of mpich, mvapich, mvapich2 and openmpi.  Some extra options are invoked when you load one - use module avail to see the specific name.
  • The same four MPI are available with more detailed options for gcc, intel and open64.  Again use module avail for the appropriate choices.

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For AVX2 support, compile with the -xHOST option. Note that -xHOST alone does not enable aggressive optimization, so compilation with -O3 is also suggested. The -fast flag invokes -xHOST, but should be avoided since it also turns on interprocedural optimization (-ipo), which may cause problems in some instances.

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installing software locally, see our online guide for an example.