We provide a range of software for users on ALICE. The software is organized in modules. Because nodes on ALICE feature Intel Skylake CPUs as well as AMD EPYC Zen II and III CPUs and because we build software optimized for the CPU architecture, we maintain two module trees for users. One tree is for the Intel and one for the AMD nodes.

New software is added upon request by users send to the ALICE Helpdesk. While we usually install new software in both module trees, the module tree for AMD is newer than the tree for our Intel nodes, which means that some software might not be available in the AMD tree. If you are missing software in the AMD module tree, just send an e-mail to the ALICE Helpdesk.

Switching between both trees is easily done using module load ALICE/Intel or module load ALICE/AMD. Alternatively, you can use module load ALICE to automatically load the correct tree for the CPU architecture of the node, e.g., in Slurm batch scripts.

Because we build software for the CPU architecture, it is possible that you need to compile or set up environments twice if you want to use nodes with both type of CPUs on ALICE.

You can find information on how to use the module system here: https://pubappslu.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HPCWIKI/pages/37749316

See also: https://pubappslu.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HPCWIKI/pages/37519378 for an hardware overview and https://pubappslu.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/HPCWIKI/pages/37519504 for a information on the partitions.

Recently added software

Here, you can find a list of recently added software to our software stack. It usually excludes dependencies and focuses on the main software package that was installed.

The list has been started on 8 Aug 2023 which means that software installed prior to this date is not shown here. For a complete list, run module avail, but the output will be extensive.

You can get a description of the module with module whatis <module_name>