⚠️ Only UCSF P1-P2 data ("research using public data sets") is allowed on the Wynton cluster as of 2026-01-30.

⚠️ Please note that the Wynton HPC service is being phased out as part of the Wynton Transition project and is scheduled to retire in early March, 2027. New research projects should generally use the newer FAC and CoreHPC environment instead. ⚠️

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 on 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.