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Core

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lmod  
settarg  

Bio

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almost all atom molecular simulation toolkit - is a fast and flexible molecular modeling environment that provides powerful and efficient algorithms for molecular simulation, homology modeling, de novo design and ab-initio calculations.
bowtie2  
GROMACS 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.
PLUMED PLUMED is an open source library for free energy calculations in molecular systems which works together with some of the most popular molecular dynamics engines. Free energy calculations can be performed as a function of many order parameters with a particular focus on biological problems, using state of the art methods such as metadynamics, umbrella sampling and Jarzynski-equation based steered MD. The software, written in C++, can be easily interfaced with both fortran and C/C++ codes.

Bullxde

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bullxde  

Bullxmpi

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bullxmpi  

Chem

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abinit  
cp2k-mpi  
lammps  
molpro  
namd  
nwchem  
ORCA ORCA is a flexible, efficient and easy-to-use general purpose tool for quantum chemistry with specific emphasis on spectroscopic properties of open-shell molecules. It features a wide variety of standard quantum chemical methods ranging from semiempirical methods to DFT to single- and multireference correlated ab initio methods. It can also treat environmental and relativistic effects.
PLUMED PLUMED is an open source library for free energy calculations in molecular systems which works together with some of the most popular molecular dynamics engines. Free energy calculations can be performed as a function of many order parameters with a particular focus on biological problems, using state of the art methods such as metadynamics, umbrella sampling and Jarzynski-equation based steered MD. The software, written in C++, can be easily interfaced with both fortran and C/C++ codes.
QuantumESPRESSO Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).
xdrfile XTC library

Compilers

Module Description
bupc  
chicken  
gcc  
GCC The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
GCCcore The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
gupc  
icc C and C++ compiler from Intel
ifort Fortran compiler from Intel
java  
llvm  

Data

Module Description
GDAL GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing.
HDF5 HDF5 is a unique technology suite that makes possible the management of extremely large and complex data collections.

Debugger

Module Description
Forge Allinea Forge is the complete toolsuite for software development - with everything needed to debug, profile, optimize, edit and build C, C++ and FORTRAN applications on Linux for high performance - from single threads through to complex parallel HPC codes with MPI, OpenMP, threads or CUDA.
PerformanceReports Allinea Performance Reports are the most effective way to characterize and understand the performance of HPC application runs. One single-page HTML report elegantly answers a range of vital questions for any HPC site. - Is this application well-optimized for the system and the processors it is running on? - Does it benefit from running at this scale? - Are there I/O, networking or threading bottlenecks affecting performance? - Which hardware, software or configuration changes can we make to improve performance further. - How much energy did this application use?

Devel

Module Description
Autoconf Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls.
Automake Automake: GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator
Autotools This bundle collect the standard GNU build tools: Autoconf, Automake and libtool
Boost Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
CMake CMake, the cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
Doxygen Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.
fontsproto X11 font extension wire protocol
guile Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system.
libSM X11 Session Management library, which allows for applications to both manage sessions, and make use of session managers to save and restore their state for later use.
M4 GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU M4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc.
make make-3.82: GNU version of make utility
makedepend The makedepend package contains a C-preprocessor like utility to determine build-time dependencies.
Maven  
ncurses The Ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses Terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD Curses.
PCRE The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.
pkg-config pkg-config is a helper tool used when compiling applications and libraries. It helps you insert the correct compiler options on the command line so an application can use gcc -o test test.c pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 for instance, rather than hard-coding values on where to find glib (or other libraries).
Qt Qt is a comprehensive cross-platform C++ application framework.
renderproto Xrender protocol and ancillary headers
SCons SCons is a software construction tool.
SQLite SQLite: SQL Database Engine in a C Library
xbitmaps provides bitmaps for x
xcb-proto The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
xextproto XExtProto protocol headers.
xineramaproto X protocol and ancillary headers for xinerama
xorg-macros X.org macros utilities.
xproto X protocol and ancillary headers
xtrans xtrans includes a number of routines to make X implementations transport-independent; at time of writing, it includes support for UNIX sockets, IPv4, IPv6, and DECnet.

Engineering

Module Description
adams  
ansys  
beopest  
blender  
Code_Saturne  
comsol  
digimat  
Discovery_Studio  
dytran  
fds  
hypermesh  
hyperworks  
lsdyna  
lsprepost  
lux  
marc  
matlab  
maxwell  
modflow-2005  
modflow-nwt  
nastran  
openfoam  
paraview  
pest  
wien2k  

Environments

Module Description
bullxde  
PrgEnv-gnu  
PrgEnv-intel  

Lang

Module Description
Bison Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser employing LALR(1) parser tables.
byacc Berkeley Yacc (byacc) is generally conceded to be the best yacc variant available. In contrast to bison, it is written to avoid dependencies upon a particular compiler.
flex Flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text.
Java Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers.
libgdiplus An Open Source implementation of the GDI+ API.
Lua Lua is a powerful, fast, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. Lua combines simple procedural syntax with powerful data description constructs based on associative arrays and extensible semantics. Lua is dynamically typed, runs by interpreting bytecode for a register-based virtual machine, and has automatic memory management with incremental garbage collection, making it ideal for configuration, scripting, and rapid prototyping.
NASM NASM: General-purpose x86 assembler
Perl  
Python Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
Ruby Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
Tcl Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses, including web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and many more.

Lib

Module Description
libdrm Direct Rendering Manager runtime library.
libffi The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run-time.
libfontenc X11 font encoding library
libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo is a fork of the original IJG libjpeg which uses SIMD to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression. libjpeg is a library that implements JPEG image encoding, decoding and transcoding.
libmatheval GNU libmatheval is a library (callable from C and Fortran) to parse and evaluate symbolic expressions input as text.
libpng libpng is the official PNG reference library
libpthread-stubs The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
libreadline The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.
LibTIFF tiff: Library and tools for reading and writing TIFF data files
libtool GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.
libunistring This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.
libxcb The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
libxml2 Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolchain developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform).
SIONlib SIONlib is a scalable I/O library for parallel access to task-local files. The library not only supports writing and reading binary data to or from several thousands of processors into a single or a small number of physical files, but also provides global open and close functions to access SIONlib files in parallel. This package provides a stripped-down installation of SIONlib for use with performance tools (e.g., Score-P), with renamed symbols to avoid conflicts when an application using SIONlib itself is linked against a tool requiring a different SIONlib version.
spGPU spGPU is a set of custom matrix storages and CUDA kernels for sparse linear algebra computing on GPU. It isn't a replacement for cuBLAS/cuSPARSE that should be used for a full featured linear algebra environment on GPU.
tbb  
zlib  

Libraries

Module Description
adios  
boost  
dataspaces  
fftw2  
fftw2-mpi  
fftw3  
fftw3-mpi  
gpi2  
gsl  
hdf5  
hdf5-parallel  
ipp  
libmesh  
magma  
mkl  
mxml  
netcdf  
netcdf-cxx  
netcdf-fortran  
netcdf-parallel  
opencl-rt  
opencl-sdk  
petsc  
plasma  
slepc  
szip  
tbb  
trilinos  
zlib  

Math

Module Description
GMP GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.
ISL isl is a library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded by linear constraints.
MLD2P4 MLD2P4 (Multi-Level Domain Decomposition Parallel Preconditioners Package based on PSBLAS) is a package of parallel algebraic multi-level preconditioners. It implements various versions of one-level additive and of multi-level additive and hybrid Schwarz algorithms. In the multi-level case, a purely algebraic approach is applied to generate coarse-level corrections, so that no geometric background is needed concerning the matrix to be preconditioned. The matrix is assumed to be square, real or complex, with a symmetric sparsity pattern.
numpy NumPy is the fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. It contains among other things: a powerful N-dimensional array object, sophisticated (broadcasting) functions, tools for integrating C/C++ and Fortran code, useful linear algebra, Fourier transform, and random number capabilities. Besides its obvious scientific uses, NumPy can also be used as an efficient multi-dimensional container of generic data. Arbitrary data-types can be defined. This allows NumPy to seamlessly and speedily integrate with a wide variety of databases.
Octave GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
PSBLAS Most computationally intensive applications work on irregular and sparse domains that complicate their implementation on parallel machines. The major goal of the Parallel Sparse Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (PSBLAS) project is to provide a framework to enable easy, efficient and portable implementations of iterative solvers for linear systems, while shielding the user from most details of their parallelization. The interface is designed keeping in view a Single Program Multiple Data programming model on distributed memory machines.
PSBLAS-ext PSBLAS - Extended formats and NVIDIA GPU support
ScientificPython ScientificPython is a collection of Python modules for scientific computing. It contains support for geometry, mathematical functions, statistics, physical units, IO, visualization, and parallelization.

Mpi

Module Description
bullxmpi  
impi The Intel(R) MPI Library for Linux* OS is a multi-fabric message passing library based on ANL MPICH2 and OSU MVAPICH2. The Intel MPI Library for Linux OS implements the Message Passing Interface, version 2 (MPI-2) specification.
lam  
MPICH MPICH v3.x is an open source high-performance MPI 3.0 implementation. It does not support InfiniBand (use MVAPICH2 with InfiniBand devices).
mvapich2  
OpenMPI The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-2 implementation.
openmpi  

Numlib

Module Description
Armadillo Armadillo is an open-source C++ linear algebra library (matrix maths) aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point and complex numbers are supported, as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions.
arpack-ng ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems.
ATLAS ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) is the application of the AEOS (Automated Empirical Optimization of Software) paradigm, with the present emphasis on the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS), a widely used, performance-critical, linear algebra kernel library.
FFTW FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data.
GSL The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting.
imkl Intel Math Kernel Library is a library of highly optimized, extensively threaded math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications that require maximum performance. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms, Vector Math, and more.
OpenBLAS OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
ScaLAPACK The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK) library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers.

Nvidia

Module Description
cuda  

Omics

Module Description
fastqc  
gatk  
hpg-aligner  
hpg-fastq  
hpg-variant  
ngsPipeline  
picard  
samtools  
snpEff  

Oscar-Modulefiles

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Oscar-Modules

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oscar-modules  

Perf

Module Description
OPARI2 OPARI2, the successor of Forschungszentrum Juelich's OPARI, is a source-to-source instrumentation tool for OpenMP and hybrid codes. It surrounds OpenMP directives and runtime library calls with calls to the POMP2 measurement interface.
OTF2 The Open Trace Format 2 is a highly scalable, memory efficient event trace data format plus support library. It is the new standard trace format for Scalasca, Vampir, and TAU and is open for other tools.
PAPI PAPI provides the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors. PAPI enables software engineers to see, in near real time, the relation between software performance and processor events. In addition Component PAPI provides access to a collection of components that expose performance measurement opportunites across the hardware and software stack.
Vampir The Vampir software tool provides an easy-to-use framework that enables developers to quickly display and analyze arbitrary program behavior at any level of detail. The tool suite implements optimized event analysis algorithms and customizable displays that enable fast and interactive rendering of very complex performance monitoring data.

Phys

Module Description
phono3py Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
phonopy Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
VASP  

Prace

Module Description
GLOBUS  
PRACE  

System

Module Description
CUDA CUDA (formerly Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and programming model created by NVIDIA and implemented by the graphics processing units (GPUs) that they produce. CUDA gives developers access to the virtual instruction set and memory of the parallel computational elements in CUDA GPUs.
hwloc The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) software package provides a portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, ...) of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures, including NUMA memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous multithreading. It also gathers various system attributes such as cache and memory information as well as the locality of I/O devices such as network interfaces, InfiniBand HCAs or GPUs. It primarily aims at helping applications with gathering information about modern computing hardware so as to exploit it accordingly and efficiently.
libpciaccess Generic PCI access library.

Toolchain

Module Description
foss GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, including OpenMPI for MPI support, OpenBLAS (BLAS and LAPACK support), FFTW and ScaLAPACK.
gimkl GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, next to Intel MPI and Intel MKL (BLAS, (Sca)LAPACK, FFTW).
gimpi GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, next to Intel MPI.
GNU Compiler-only toolchain with GCC and binutils.
gompi GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, including OpenMPI for MPI support.
iccifort Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers
iimpi Intel C/C++ and Fortran compilers, alongside Intel MPI.
intel  

Tools

Module Description
advisor_xe  
APR Apache Portable Runtime (APR) libraries.
APR-util Apache Portable Runtime (APR) util libraries.
Bash Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
binutils binutils: GNU binary utilities
bzip2 bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
cmake  
cube  
cURL libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more.
dhi-mike  
EasyBuild EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework written in Python that allows you to install software in a structured, repeatable and robust way.
elmer  
expat Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags)
git  
gnuplot  
grace  
gzip gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program as a replacement for compress
inspector_xe  
intelpcm  
ipm  
itac  
JOE JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
likwid  
Lmod  
MATLAB  
memoryscape  
Mercurial Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.
mercurial  
MIKE  
mono  
mpi.net  
numactl The numactl program allows you to run your application program on specific cpu's and memory nodes. It does this by supplying a NUMA memory policy to the operating system before running your program. The libnuma library provides convenient ways for you to add NUMA memory policies into your own program.
octave  
opari2  
openssh-x509  
oscar-modules  
otf2  
papi  
parallel  
python  
R  
racket  
relion  
Rstudio  
ruby  
scalasca2  
scite  
scorep  
Serf The serf library is a high performance C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library
Subversion Subversion is an open source version control system.
Szip Szip compression software, providing lossless compression of scientific data
tcl  
tcsh Tcsh is an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell (csh). It is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C-like syntax.
tk  
totalview  
turbovnc  
util-linux Set of Linux utilities
valgrind  
vampir  
virtualgl  
VTune Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2016 is the premier performance profiler for C, C++, C#, Fortran, Assembly and Java.
vtune_xe  
XZ xz: XZ utilities

Virtualization

Module Description
qemu  
vde2  
wine  

Vis

Module Description
cairo Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB
ffmpeg A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
fixesproto X.org FixesProto protocol headers.
FLTK FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and MacOS X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation.
fontconfig Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access.
freetype FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.
gettext  
GLib GLib is one of the base libraries of the GTK+ project
inputproto X.org InputProto protocol headers.
kbproto X.org KBProto protocol headers.
libICE X Inter-Client Exchange library for freedesktop.org
libX11 X11 client-side library
libXau The libXau package contains a library implementing the X11 Authorization Protocol. This is useful for restricting client access to the display.
libXdmcp The libXdmcp package contains a library implementing the X Display Manager Control Protocol. This is useful for allowing clients to interact with the X Display Manager.
libXext Common X Extensions library
libXfixes X Fixes extension library
libXfont X font libary
libXt libXt provides the X Toolkit Intrinsics, an abstract widget library upon which other toolkits are based. Xt is the basis for many toolkits, including the Athena widgets (Xaw), and LessTif (a Motif implementation).
pixman Pixman is a low-level software library for pixel manipulation, providing features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization. Important users of pixman are the cairo graphics library and the X server.
Tk Tk is an open source, cross-platform widget toolchain that provides a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface (GUI) in many different programming languages.