{"id":2323,"date":"2018-11-09T10:39:07","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T10:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/?post_type=kbe_knowledgebase&#038;p=2323"},"modified":"2026-02-06T14:51:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T14:51:20","slug":"act-software-list","status":"publish","type":"kbe_knowledgebase","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/act-software-list\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT software list"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Overview of Installed Software<\/h2>\n<p>This page contains information about the software that is available on the academic computing cluster, the met-cluster and the NX nodes. The lists are not exhaustive as we restricted them to software that isn&#8217;t available by default in Centos 7 Linux and focus here on scientific software and programming tools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Reading Academic Computing Cluster (RACC)<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>On the RACC software is both installed in default system paths from software package managers (rpms) and as environmental modules, which have to be loaded first.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Software installed from rpms<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>The default versions of these software packages are already in the path and the &#8216;module load&#8217; command is not needed.<\/p>\n<table style=\"height: 707px;width: 100%;border-collapse: collapse\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 35px\">\n<td style=\"height: 35px\"><strong>Package<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 35px\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 35px\"><strong>Commands<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 45px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">R<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px\">Language for statistical computing and graphics,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.r-project.org\">https:\/\/www.r-project.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">R<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">rstudio<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">GUI environment for R,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/\">https:\/\/www.rstudio.com\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">rstudio<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">octave<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Numerical programming suite compatible with Matlab,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/octave\/\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/octave\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">octave<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">gcc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">GNU Compiler Collection,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gcc\/\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gcc\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">gcc, g++, gfortran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">git<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Version control system,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/git-scm.com\">https:\/\/git-scm.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">git<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">GSL<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">GNU Scientific Library,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gsl\/\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gsl\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">boost<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.boost.org\">https:\/\/www.boost.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">lapack<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Linear Algebra Package,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netlib.org\/lapack\/\">http:\/\/www.netlib.org\/lapack\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">blas<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.netlib.org\/blas\/\">http:\/\/www.netlib.org\/blas\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">gdal<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Geospatial Data Abstraction Library,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gdal.org\">https:\/\/www.gdal.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">zlib<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">A Massively Spiffy Yet Delicately Unobtrusive Compression Library,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/zlib.net\">https:\/\/zlib.net<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">grib-api<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">ECMWF\u00a0application program interface accessible for encoding and decoding data in grib format,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/confluence.ecmwf.int\/display\/GRIB\/Home\">https:\/\/confluence.ecmwf.int\/display\/GRIB\/Home<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">e.g. grib_ls, grib_info, grib_get<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">curl<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Command-line tool and library for transferring data,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/curl.haxx.se\">https:\/\/curl.haxx.se<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">curl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">fftw<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT),<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fftw.org\">http:\/\/www.fftw.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">udunits<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">C library for units of physical quantities and a unit-definition and value-conversion utility,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/software\/udunits\/\">https:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/software\/udunits\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">udunits<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">expat<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">A stream-oriented parser,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/libexpat.github.io\">https:\/\/libexpat.github.io<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">proj<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">A generic coordinate transformation software,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/proj4.org\">https:\/\/proj4.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">proj<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 47px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 47px\">ncl<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 47px\">NCAR Command Language,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ucar.edu\">https:\/\/www.ncl.ucar.edu<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 47px\">ncl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">nco<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">netCDF Operators&#8217;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/nco.sourceforge.net\">http:\/\/nco.sourceforge.net<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">e.g. ncks, ncecat, ncwa<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">ncview<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">netCDF visual browser,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/meteora.ucsd.edu\/~pierce\/ncview_home_page.html\">http:\/\/meteora.ucsd.edu\/~pierce\/ncview_home_page.html<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">ncview<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">cdo<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Climate Data Operators,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/code.mpimet.mpg.de\/projects\/cdo\">https:\/\/code.mpimet.mpg.de\/projects\/cdo<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">cdo<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">mplayer<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Movie Player,<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mplayerhq.hu\/design7\/news.html\">http:\/\/www.mplayerhq.hu\/design7\/news.html<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">mplayer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">cmake<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Tools to build, test and package software,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/cmake.org\">https:\/\/cmake.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">cmake<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">rsync<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">File transfer utility,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rsync.samba.org\">https:\/\/rsync.samba.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">rsync<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">rclone<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">A command line program to sync files and directories to and from cloud storage including OneDrive,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rclone.org\">https:\/\/rclone.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">\u00a0rclone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 287px;height: 25px\">firefox<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 852.317px;height: 25px\">Web browser,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/firefox\/\">https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-GB\/firefox\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 238.683px;height: 25px\">firefox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3><\/h3>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Software available using environmental modules<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>If you&#8217;re not familiar with the &#8216;module&#8217; commands, please see <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/accessing-software-on-the-cluster\/\">Accessing Software on the Cluster<\/a> for information about using environmental modules.<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 422px\" border=\"1\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\"><strong>Package<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\"><strong>Commands<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">ENVI (licensed for v. 5.5 and onward)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Image analysis software<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisgeospatial.com\/Software-Technology\/ENVI\">https:\/\/www.harrisgeospatial.com\/Software-Technology\/ENVI<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">envi<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">IDL<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Scientific programming language,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.harrisgeospatial.com\/Software-Technology\/IDL\">https:\/\/www.harrisgeospatial.com\/Software-Technology\/IDL<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">idl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">Matlab<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Numerical computing software and programming language, see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/running-matlab-scripts-as-batch-jobs\/\">Running Matlab Scripts as Batch Jobs<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/uk.mathworks.com\/products\/matlab.html\">https:\/\/uk.mathworks.com\/products\/matlab.html<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">matlab<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">Canopy python (2.7 and 3.5)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Enthought python distribution\u00a0and analysis environment for scientific and analytic computing, see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/python-on-the-academic-computing-cluster\/\">Python on the Cluster<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.enthought.com\/product\/canopy\/\">https:\/\/www.enthought.com\/product\/canopy\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">python<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">Anaconda Python (2.7 and 3.5)<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Anaconda python distribution\u00a0and analysis environment for scientific and analytic computing, see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/python-on-the-academic-computing-cluster\/\">Python on the Cluster<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.anaconda.com\">https:\/\/www.anaconda.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">python<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">cuda<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">NVIDIA parallel computing platform and programming model,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/cuda-zone\">https:\/\/developer.nvidia.com\/cuda-zone<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">nvcc<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">gcc<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">GNU Compiler Collection,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gcc\/\">https:\/\/www.gnu.org\/software\/gcc\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">gcc, g++, gfortran<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">intel<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Intel Parallel Studio XE for Fortran,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/parallel-studio-xe\">https:\/\/software.intel.com\/en-us\/parallel-studio-xe<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">ifort<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">pgi<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">PGI Fortran compiler and tools,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pgroup.com\">https:\/\/www.pgroup.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">e.g. pgf90, pgcc, pgunzip<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">solstudio<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Oracle Developer Studio compilers and tools,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/server-storage\/developerstudio\/overview\/index.html\">https:\/\/www.oracle.com\/technetwork\/server-storage\/developerstudio\/overview\/index.html<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">e.g. cc, CC, f90, f95<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 47px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 47px\">mpich<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 47px\">High performance implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mpich.org\">https:\/\/www.mpich.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 47px\">e.g. mpicc, mpifort, mpiexec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">openmpi<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Open source\u00a0implementation of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.open-mpi.org\">https:\/\/www.open-mpi.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">e.g. mpicc, mpifort, mpiexec<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">nag<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">NAG library, a\u00a0collection of robust, documented, tested and maintained numerical algorithms,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/content\/nag-library\">https:\/\/www.nag.co.uk\/content\/nag-library\u00a0<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/nag-library\/\">NAG library on RACC<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">netCDF<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Libraries and tools that support the creation, access and sharing of array-oriented scientific data,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/software\/netcdf\/\">https:\/\/www.unidata.ucar.edu\/software\/netcdf\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">e.g ncdump, ncgen, nccopy<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">hdf5<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8504%;height: 25px\">Technology suite for the management of extremely large and complex data collections,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/support.hdfgroup.org\/HDF5\/\">https:\/\/support.hdfgroup.org\/HDF5\/<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3221%;height: 25px\">e.g h5dump, h5diff, h5ls<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Met-Cluster<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The met-cluster is now a legacy service. While it is still available, software on it can be accessed via the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/accessing-software-on-the-cluster\/\">module<\/a>&#8216; command. Some of the software and packages that are listed for the RACC are also available for the met cluster, although these are older versions and are no longer maintained. For up to date software and libraries, please switch to the <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/migrating-from-met-cluster-to-racc\/\">RACC<\/a>\u00a0as there are no more updates or additions planned to the met-cluster software.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">NX nodes<\/span><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/using-nx-reading-ac-uk\/\">NX nodes<\/a>\u00a0use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nomachine.com\">NoMachine NX<\/a> Enterprise software to provide a virtual linux desktop. 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