Software
The following list of software is available on the nyx cluster. To access any of these packages, use the module load modulename command; for more information on the module command see our module documentation page.
Many of these packages have multiple versions, to see available versions, type module avail.
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| R | 2.9.1 | R is a software environment for statistical computing | Vendor Website |
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| abaqus | 6.8 | abaqus is set of general purpose nonlinear finite element analysis (FEA) tools | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| abinit | 5.8.4-intel | ABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials and a planewave basis. | Vendor Website |
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| aces2 | 2005 | ACES II (= Advanced Concepts in Electronic Structure) is a series of programs for performing high-level quantum chemical ab initio calculations. Its major strength is the accurate calculation of atomic and molecular energies as well as properties using "many-body" techniques such as many-body perturbation theory (MBPT) and, in particular coupled-cluster techniques to treat electron correlation. | Vendor Website |
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| acml | 4.0.1-gcc 4.0.1-gcc-mp 4.1.1-pgi 4.2.0-pgi-i8 |
ACML is the AMD Core Math Library, which contains functions from BLAS and LAPACK, among other things, optimized for the AMD CPUs | Vendor Website |
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| adina | 8.5.2 | ADINA System for the analysis of solids, structures, fluids and fluid flow with structural interactions. | Vendor Website |
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| amber | 8.0 | Amber a set of molecular mechanical force fields for the simulation of biomolecules | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| ampl | 2008 | AMPL is a comprehensive, powerful and flexible algebraic modeling language | CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| ansys | 11.0 | ANSYS, produced by ANSYS, Inc., is a finite element simulation tool that incorporates multiphysics to simulate real world conditions. This allows users to analyze parts for behavior under multiple physical forces simultaneously | CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| autodock | 4.0.1 | AutoDock is a suite of automated docking tools. It is designed to predict how small molecules, such as substrates or drug candidates, bind to a receptor of known 3D structure. | Vendor Website |
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| blat | 34 | Blat is a tool which performs rapid mRNA/DNA and cross-species protein alignments. | Vendor Website |
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| boost | 1.39.0 | Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries. | Vendor Website |
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| cfour | beta | CFOUR (Coupled-Cluster techniques for Computational Chemistry) is a program package for performing high-level quantum mechanical calculations on atoms and molecules. | Vendor Website |
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| charmm | c32b2 c35b2 |
CHARMM (Chemistry at HARvard Macromolecular Mechanics) is a program for macromolecular simulations, including energy minimization, molecular dynamics and Monte Carlo simulations. You must possess a license to use this software. | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| chemkin | 4.1 | CHEMKIN software enables the simulation of complex chemical reactions | Vendor Website |
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| cmake | 2.6.4 | CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software. | Vendor Website |
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| comsol | 3.4 3.5a |
COMSOL Multiphysics is a modeling package for the simulation of any physical process you can describe with partial differential equations | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| cplex | 11.0 | CPLEX is a high-performance optimizer for linear programming | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| cplex-threaded | 11.0 | CPLEX is a high-performance optimizer for linear programming | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| cubit | 11.1 | loads the CUBIT Mesh Generation Kit | Vendor Website |
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| cuda | 2.2 | CUDA is the development environment for using nVidia's graphics cards for processing | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| ddt | 2.4.1 | Distributed Debugging Tool is a comprehensive graphical debugger designed for the complex task of debugging parallel code. | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| espresso | 4.1-pgi | Espresso: Electronic Structure Computation Software | Vendor Website |
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| fftw | 2.1.5-gcc 2.1.5-intel 2.1.5-pgi 3.2.1-gcc 3.2.1-intel 3.2.1-pgi |
FFTW is a C/Fortran subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions | Vendor Website |
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| flomerics | 72 | FLOTHERM is a powerful 3D computational fluid dynamics software that predicts airflow and heat transfer in and around electronic equipment, including the coupled effects of conduction, convection and radiation. | Vendor Website |
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| fluent | 12.0 6.3 |
fluent - a comprehensive CFD (computational fluid dynamics) analysis tool. The FLUENT solver can be used to model turbulence, combustion, and multiphase applications. | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| gaussian | 03-32bit 03-64bit 03-64bit-linda |
Gaussian is an electronic structure program that predicts the energies, molecular structures, and vibrational frequencies of molecular systems, along with numerous molecular properties derived from these basic computation types. | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| grads | 2.0.a7.1 | The Grid Analysis and Display System (GrADS) is an interactive desktop tool that is used for easy access, manipulation, and visualization of earth science data. | Vendor Website |
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| gromacs | 3.3.1-gcc 4.0.2-gcc 4.0.5-gcc |
GROMACS is a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles. | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| gti | 6.2 | GT-SUITE offers the only true virtual engine/powertrain tool, capable of integrated simulations of the total engine and powertrain system | Vendor Website |
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| hdf5 | 1.6.9-gcc 1.6.9-pgi 1.8.3-gcc 1.8.3-intel 1.8.3-pgi 1.8.3-pgi-par |
HDF5 is a set of file formats and libraries designed to store and organize large amounts of numerical data. | Vendor Website |
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| helios | 1.10 | loads the HELIOS Generalized Geometry Lattice Analysis package | Vendor Website |
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| hfss | 10.1 11.1 |
loads the hfss environment for Full-Wave Sprice extraction and electromagnetic field simulation | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| hspice | 2006.09-sp1 | HSPICE is used for circuit simulation | Vendor Website |
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| idl | 7.0 | IDL is software for data analysis, visualization, and cross-platform application development | CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| intel-comp | 10.0 11.0 9.1 c-10.0.025 c-11.0.074 c-9.1.043 fortran-10.0.025 fortran-11.0.074 fortran-9.1.037 |
This loads both the Intel C and Fortran compilers | Vendor Website |
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| java | 1.6.0_01 | loads the Java development and runtime environment | Vendor Website |
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| lammps | 1Jul09 | A classical molecular dynamics code LAMMPS, which stands for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator | Vendor Website |
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| lsdyna | 971-R421 | LS-DYNA is a general purpose transient dynamic finite element program; we support a parallel version | Vendor Website |
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| marc | 2007r1 | MARC is a non-linear FEA program | CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| mathematica | 6.0 | Mathematica is a compuer algebra system | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| matlab | 2009a | Matlab is interactive package for numerical analysis, matrix computation, control system design, and linear system analysis and design | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| mcnp5 | 1.4 1.51 |
loads the mcnp5 environment | Vendor Website |
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| metis | 4.0.1-pgi | METIS - Serial Graph Partitioning and Fill-reducing Matrix Ordering | Vendor Website |
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| mkl | 10.1 | This loads the Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL) runtime. | Vendor Website |
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| molpro | 2008.1-intel | Molpro is a complete system of ab initio programs for molecular electronic structure calculations | Vendor Website |
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| mpiexec | 0.83 | Mpiexec is a replacement program for the script mpirun, which is part of the mpich package. | Vendor Website |
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| msmodel | 4.4 | Material Studio -- a software environment that brings the world's most advanced and validated materials simulation technology to the CAC | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| nag | 5.1 5.2 |
NAGWARE - f95/f90 fortran compiler | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| naglib | 7.0-gcc 7.0-pgi 7.0-pgi-mp |
NAG has over 1,450 tried and tested routines that are both flexible and portable | Vendor Website |
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| namd | 2.7b1 | NAMD is a parallel molecular dynamics code designed for high-performance simulation of large biomolecular systems. | Vendor Website |
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| nastran | r3 | Nastran is a powerful general purpose finite element analysis solution for small to complex assemblies | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| ncbi | 200908 | Provides Blast. The program compares nucleotide or protein sequences to sequence databases and calculates the statistical significance of matches. BLAST can be used to infer functional and evolutionary relationships between sequences as well as help identify members of gene families. | Vendor Website |
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| nco | 3.9.9 | The netCDF Operators, or NCO, are a suite of programs known as operators. Each operator is a standalone, command line program which is executed at the UNIX shell-level like, e.g., ls or mkdir. The operators take netCDF files as input, then perform a set of operations (e.g., deriving new data, averaging, hyperslabbing, or metadata manipulation) and produce a netCDF file as output. | Vendor Website |
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| netcdf | 4.0-gcc 4.0-pgi |
NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data | Vendor Website |
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| ocean | 6.1-32bit 6.1-64bit |
loads the Open Command Environment OCEAN part of Cadence IC | Vendor Website |
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| octave | 2.1.57 | GNU Octave is a high-level language, primarily intended for numerical computations. | Vendor Website |
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| openfoam | 1.5 | OpenFOAM CFD Toolbox | Vendor Website |
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| openmpi | 1.2.6-intel 1.3.2-gcc 1.3.2-intel 1.3.2-nag 1.3.2-pgi 1.3.2-pgi62 |
loads the OpenMPI/GCC compiler environment | Vendor Website |
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| optistruct | 9.0 | Optistruct finite element based software program for both structural analysis and design optimisation. OptiStruct is used to design, evaluate and improve performance of mechanical structures. | CAC Documentation CAEN Documentation Vendor Website |
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| parmetis | 3.1.1-intel 3.1.1-pgi |
ParMETIS is an MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs, meshes, and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices. ParMETIS extends the functionality provided by METIS and includes routines that are especially suited for parallel AMR computations and large scale numerical simulations. | Vendor Website |
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| petsc | 3.0.0-p7-intel-debug 3.0.0-p7-intel-opt 3.0.0-p7-pgi-debug 3.0.0-p7-pgi-opt |
PETSc is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. It employs the MPI standard for parallelism. | Vendor Website |
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| pgi | 6.2 7.2 8.0 9.0 |
loads the PGI compiler environment | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| polimi | 1.2.5 | loads the polimi environment | Vendor Website |
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| samtools | 0.1.4 | SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format. | Vendor Website |
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| scipy | 0.7.0 | Scipy is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. | Vendor Website |
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| sentaurus | 2007.03 | Loads the Synopsys TCAD programs | Vendor Website |
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| starccm | 4.04 | Star-ccm+ is a CFD application that supports parallel processing | Vendor Website |
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| stata | 10 | Stata is a complete, integrated statistical package that provides everything you need for data analysis, data management, and graphics. | CAC Documentation Vendor Website Manuals |
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| subversion | 1.6.3 | ||||
| torque | loads the Torque and Maui batch computing environment | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| vasp | 4.6.36 5.2.2 |
VASP is a licensed package for performing ab-initio quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics (MD) | CAC Documentation Vendor Website |
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| vcs | 2006.06 | loads the VCS simulation environment | Vendor Website |
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| verilog | 5.8 | loads the Verilog part of Cadence IC | Vendor Website |
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| visit | 1.11.2 | loads the Visit serial and parallel engine for visualization of large data | Vendor Website |
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| xpressmp | 2007a | Xpress-MP is a suite of mathematical modeling and optimization tools used to solve linear, integer, quadratic, non-linear, and stochastic programming problems. | Vendor Website |
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