The partner computing centers in ScalaLife provide the necessary tools for software development, along with the core simulation packages. The tools include version control systems, build environemnts, compilers, debuggers, performance tools and special libraries. Analysis and visualization software is also provided.

Some of the provided tools require special or paid licenses. Users will need to obtain those licenses themselves, except for the cases where the centres provide system wide licensing scheme. Please contact support for more information.

Access to the tools (and pre-compiled applications)

Some of the centers use module systems to manage access to the tools. See below for details.

PDC at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)

Precompiled versions of the tools are provided through the Tcl modules systems on all clusters at PDC. Information about their usage through the module system can be found on the PDC website.

LRZ

LRZ uses the modules approach to manage the user environment for different software versions. This is the standard method available for user environment management on all Linux-based LRZ HPC platforms. More information can be found on the LRZ website.

BSC

BSC uses the module tools to manage the user environment to support  different software stack versions. More information about software and tools can be found at BSC website

OeRC

Tools such as the GNU build system and compilers which are part of the standard Linux distributions are available by default. The other tools can be added as modules. More information is available on the OeRC website.

Documentation

Links to documentation about the usage of the tools can be found in the performance section.

Provision of tools

The availability of the tools on the different platforms is presented in the table below. More details are available in the support tools matrix.