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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 6.8-1 / 6.9-1
ABINIT 5.4.4 / 5.7.3 / 5.8.3 / 6.0  
Amber 10  
CFX 11.0-1 / 12.1 12.1
CPMD 3.13.2  
CRYSTAL 06 v1_0_2 06 v1_0_2
DL_POLY 2.19 / 2.20 / 3.09.4  
FLUENT 12.1 12.1
Quantum Espresso 4.0.5 / 4.1 / 4.2 4.1
GAMESS-UK 7.0  
Gaussian 03d01 / 03e01 / 09a02 09a01 / 09a02
GROMACS 4.0.2 / 4.0.4 / 4.0.5 / 4.0.7  
NAMD 2.6 / 2.7b1  
NWChem 5.1 / 5.1.1  
Octave 3.0.3 / 3.2.4 3.2.3
OpenMX 3.4 / 3.4.4 / 3.5 3.4.4 / 3.5
Turbomole 5.9.1 / 5.10  
VASP 4.6 / 5.2 4.6 / 5.2
Bioinformatics packages
Package name Stokes Stoney
BEAST 1.6.0pre  
Bioconductor 2.4  
BioPerl 1.6.0  
Biopython 1.50  
ClustalW 2.0.10 2.0.12
Crann 1.04  
Crux 1.1.0  
EMBOSS 6.0.1 6.2.0
FASTA 35.4.4  
HMMER 3.0b2 3.0
MCL 08-312 09-308
MEME 4.3.0  
mpiBLAST 1.5.0-pio 1.6.0-beta1
MrBayes 3.1.2 / 3.1.2h / 3.2-cvs / 3.2-svn-rev51 3.1.2
MUSCLE 3.7 3.8.31
NCBI-BLAST 2.2.17 / 2.2.18 / 2.2.19 / 2.2.19+ 2.2.22
p4 0.87.r132  
PAML 3.15 / 4.1 / 4.2a / 4.3 / 4.4a 4.4a
PHYLIP 3.68  
PhyloBayes 2.3c / 3.2e 3.2e
PhyML 3.0 3.0
PLINK 1.06 1.07
PRANK 081202  
R 2.8.0 / 2.9.0 / 2.10.0 2.11.0
RAxML 7.0.4 / 7.2.6  
SWAPSC 1.0b  
TREE-PUZZLE 5.2  
Climate & Forecasting packages
Package name Stokes Stoney
CDAT 5.2  
CDO 1.3.1 / 1.4.4 1.4.4
EMOSLIB 000360 / 000380 000380
FERRET 6.6.2 6.6.2
GMT 4.5.1  
GrADS 2.0.8a 2.0.8a
grib-api 1.6.4 / 1.9.0 1.6.4 / 1.9.0
NCL 5.1.0 5.1.0
NCO 4.0.0 / 4.0.1 4.0.1
OASIS3 3.3  
SMS 4.4.13  
udunits 2.1.4 2.1.4
WRF 3.1.1  
Analysis and visualisation tools
Package name Stokes
Grace 5.1.22 / 5.99  
IDL 7.0  
VISIT 1.12.0 / 2.0  
Communication libraries
Package name Stokes Stoney
Intel MPI 3.1 / 3.2 / 3.2.1 / 3.2.2 / 4.0 3.2 / 3.2.1 / 3.2.2 / 4.0
MVAPICH2 1.2 / 1.2p1 / 1.4.1 1.2p1 / 1.4.1
sgi-mpt 1.20-sgi600r1  
I/O libraries
Package name Stokes Stoney
GridFTP 4.2.1  
HDF4 4.2r3 4.2.5
HDF5 1.6.9 / 1.8.2 / 1.8.4 1.8.4
NetCDF 4.0 / 4.1 4.1
CFITSIO 3.10  
Numerical libraries
Package name Stokes Stoney
FFTW3 3.2  
GSL 1.11 / 1.12 / 1.14 1.14
Intel MKL 10.0 / 10.1 / 10.2 10.1 / 10.2
PETSc 2.3.3-p15  
Programming tools
Package name Stokes Stoney
Charm++ 6.0 / 6.1  
cmake 2.6.4  
DDT 2.3.1 / 2.4.1 / 2.5.1 2.4.1 / 2.5.1 / 2.6
GCC4 Compilers 4.1.2 / 4.4.0 4.1.2
Git 1.6.0.4 1.6.0.4
Intel Compilers 9.1 / 10.1 / 11.0 / 11.1 9.1 / 10.1 / 11.0 / 11.1
Intel Trace Analyzer 7.1 / 7.2 / 8.0 7.2 / 8.0
OPT   1.4.3
Splint 3.1.2  
subversion 1.5.4 1.4.2
Tcl/Tk 8.4.19  
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.