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Software Packages

ICHEC provides access to a large range of compilers, libraries and high-performance computing packages on it's supercomputer systems. If you are interested in using software which is not on the list it is best to contact us with your query. ICHEC can also assist you with installing packages for your own use.

Please note this list is not exhaustive and does not include many packages one might take for granted, e.g. python. Certain packages are installed on an on request basis and so may not yet have been requested on a given system.

Software List

Misc. Application packages
Package name Stokes Stoney
ABAQUS 6.8-1 / 6.9-1 / 6.10-2 / 6.11-1 / 6.12-1 6.9-1 / 6.10-2 / 6.12-1
ABINIT 6.2.2 / 6.12.3  
CFX 12.1 / 14.0 12.1 / 14.0
CPMD 3.13.2  
CP2K 2.1.366  
CRYSTAL 06 v1_0_2 06 v1_0_2
FLUENT 12.1 / 14.0 12.1 / 14.0
Quantum Espresso 4.0.5 / 4.1 / 4.2 4.1
GAMESS-UK 7.0  
Gaussian 03e01 / 09b01 / 09c01 09a01 / 09a02 / 09b01 / 09c01
NWChem 5.1.1  
Octave 3.2.4 3.2.3
Octopus 3.2.0 / 4.0.0 N/A
OpenBabel 2.3.0 / 2.3.1 2.3.0
OpenFOAM 1.6 - ext / 1.7.1 / 2.0.1 / 2.1.0 / 2.1.1 2.0.1 / 2.1.1
OpenMX 3.5 / 3.5.1 / 3.5.2 / 3.5.4 3.4.4 / 3.5 / 3.5.1 / 3.5.2 / 3.5.4
Turbomole 5.10  
VASP 4.6 / 5.2 / 5.2.11 / 5.2.12 4.6 / 5.2 / 5.2.11 / 5.2.12
Molecular Dynamics packages
Package name Stokes Stoney
Amber 10 / 11  
DL_POLY 2.20 / 3.10 4.01 / 4.03
GROMACS 4.0.1 / 4.5.1 / 4.5.5 4.5.5
OpenMM   4.0
LAMMPS 24-Apr-2013 / 15-Jan-2010 24-Apr-2013 / 09-Jul-2009
NAMD 2.7b2 / 2.7b3 / 2.8b1 2.7b2
Bioinformatics packages
Package name Stokes Stoney
Bioconductor 2.6  
ClustalW 2.0.12 2.0.12
EMBOSS 6.3.1 6.2.0
FASTA 35.4.12  
Gblocks 0.91b  
HMMER 3.0 3.0
MCL 10-201 09-308
mpiBLAST 1.6.0 1.6.0-beta1
MrBayes 3.1.2 / 3.2-rev120 3.1.2
MUSCLE 3.8.31 3.8.31
NCBI-BLAST 2.2.23 / 2.2.23+ 2.2.22
p4 0.88.r142  
PAML 4.4c 4.4a
PHYLIP 3.69  
PhyloBayes 3.2e 3.2e
PhyML 3.0 3.0
PLINK 1.07 1.07
PRANK 100802  
RAxML 7.2.6  
T-Coffee 8.93  
TREE-PUZZLE 5.2  
Climate & Forecasting packages
Package name Stokes Stoney
Afterburner 4.7.0  
CDAT 5.2  
CDO 1.4.5, 1.5.0 1.4.5, 1.5.0
ecaccess 3.3.0 3.3.0
EMOSLIB 000380, 000381 000380, 000381
FERRET 6.6.2 6.6.2
GMT 4.5.3  
GrADS 2.0.8a 2.0.8a
grib-api 1.9.0, 1.9.5, 1.9.9 1.9.0, 1.9.5, 1.9.9
NCL 5.2.1 5.1.0
NCO 4.0.2 4.0.1
OASIS3 3.3  
SMS 4.4.13  
udunits 2.1.14 2.1.4
WRF 3.2  
Analysis and visualisation tools
Package name Stokes Stoney
R 2.11.1 / 2.13.1 / 2.14.0 2.11.0 / 2.13.1 / 2.14.0
Grace 5.1.22  
gnuplot 4.4.0  
gnuplot-py 1.8  
IDL 7.0  
VISIT 2.1  
VMD 1.8.7  
XCrySDen 1.5.21  
Communication libraries
Package name Stokes Stoney
Intel MPI 4.0.1 - 4.0.3 / 4.1.0 4.0.3
MVAPICH2 1.4 / 1.5.1p1 / 1.7 / 1.8 1.7
sgi-mpt 2.01  
I/O libraries
Package name Stokes Stoney
GridFTP 4.2.1  
HDF4 4.2.5 4.2.5
HDF5 1.8.5 1.8.5
NetCDF 4.1.1 4.1
CFITSIO 3.25  
Numerical libraries
Package name Stokes Stoney
FFTW3 3.2.2 3.2.2
GSL 1.14 1.15
Boost 1.49.0  
Intel MKL 10.1 / 10.2 / 10.3 / 11.0 2011.9
PETSc Contact ICHEC Contact ICHEC
NumPy 1.5.0 1.3.0 / 1.5.0b1
SciPy 0.8.0 0.8.0
Programming tools
Package name Stokes Stoney
cmake 2.8.2  
DDT 2.6 2.4.1 / 2.5.1 / 2.6
GCC4 Compilers 4.3.4 4.1.2
Git 1.6.0.2 1.6.0.4
Intel Compilers 9.1 / 10.1 / 11.0 / 11.1 / 2011.1 / 2011.5 / 2011.7 / 2013.0 10.1 / 2011.9
nVidia CUDA Compiler   2.1 / 2.2 / 2.3 / 3.0 / 3.1
Intel Trace Analyzer 8.0 7.2 / 8.0
OPT   1.4.3
Splint 3.1.2  
subversion 1.5.2 1.4.2
Tcl/Tk 8.5.5 / 8.5.8 8.4.13
valgrind 3.3.1 / 3.4.0  

ICHEC advises users to benchmark their particular application in order to facilitate running their jobs in an efficient regime.