Core Software #

A large number of common Linux software tools are available on the cluster as part of the core setup. Below follows a small excerpt of what tools are available development nodes and compute nodes. The login and data-transfer nodes have a much smaller selection of software.

File Editing

emacs, nano, vim

File Transferring

ftp, lftp, scp, sftp, rsync
curl, wget
rclone
dos2unix

File Compression and Archiving

7z, bzip2, gzip, lz4, zip, xz
ar, cpio, tar

Communication

ssh, telnet

Version Control

git, svn

Text, Documents, and Reports

hunspell
pandoc
LaTeX, PDF and Postscript tools

Programming Languages, Compilers, and Tools

make, cmake
gcc / g++ (C, C++, and Fortran)
java, javac
lua
node, npm
perl
python
rustc (Rust)

System Utilities

top
screen, tmux

Linux Containers

apptainer (formerly singularity)

Note: These core tools will be updated without notice as the operating system is updated on a regular basis. Many of the tools originate from the (stable) Rocky 8 repositories. To see what software and system libraries that are installed, run dnf --cacheonly list. Please note that, compared to compute nodes, the development nodes have additional software installed (typically named -devel) needed to build and compile from source.