{"id":2457,"date":"2018-12-19T15:31:17","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T15:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/?page_id=2457"},"modified":"2019-01-29T12:08:44","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T12:08:44","slug":"act-services","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/act-services\/","title":{"rendered":"ACT Services Catalogue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<article id=\"post-1753\" class=\"sq-hentry post-1753 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish hentry kbe_taxonomy-cloud-description kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n            <\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"sq-post-wrapper\">\n        <header class=\"entry-header\">\n            <h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/research-cloud-service\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Research Cloud Service<\/a><\/h2>\n                    <\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n        <div class=\"entry-content\">\n            <p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>The Reading Research Cloud is a platform for server hosting which runs virtual machine (VMs) on University owned servers, The platform is comprised of servers with a combination of: high end CPU, GPU, Memory and\u00a0 SSD Storage. Also all the servers are connected by a reliable high speed network. This means that the platform is\u00a0flexible enough to meet the users research requirements while being available at an affordable price.<\/p>\n<p>The Research Cloud is managed by a self-service portal. Because of this the user can provision and configure servers to their own needs. We also offer a set of standard templates which can be used and adapted by the end user available on login.<\/p>\n<h2>How to access<\/h2>\n<p>Access to the Research Cloud can be requested using\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/uor.topdesk.net\/tas\/public\/ssp\/\">the form available in the DTS Self Service Portal (TOPdesk)<\/a>\u00a0and follow the path <span class=\"ssdnav-breadcrumb\">Home =&gt; <\/span> <span class=\"ssdnav-breadcrumb\"> Research Computing (RACC &amp; VMs)=<\/span><span class=\"ssdnav-breadcrumb\">&gt;<span data-bind=\" text: caption, style: $component.setLowerCaseForTitle()\">Request a Virtual Machine for Research<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Research Cloud Pricing 2025-2026<\/h2>\n<p>Users can calculate the costs for using virtual machines or storage by combining the basic units below as required.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>VCPU &#8211; \u00a380 per core per year<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Memory &#8211; \u00a38 per GB per year<\/li>\n<li>Virtual Disk &#8211; \u00a38 per GB per year<\/li>\n<li>Offsite backup for VM &#8211; \u00a360.00 per TB per year<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/research-data-storage-service\/\">Associated Network Storage costs linked to VM available here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>These costs have been certified for use with research councils. VAT will be charged for external entities.<\/p>\n<p>The below table shows costs for some typical configurations which are comparable to costs on public clouds.<\/p>\n<h2><u>Typical VM Prices<\/u><\/h2>\n<table style=\"height: 175px; width: 100%; border-collapse: collapse;\" cellpadding=\"10\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<th style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">Annual Cost<\/th>\n<th style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: left;\">VM Configuration<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">\u00a396<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px;\">1 core, 2 GB RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">\u00a3192<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px;\">2 core, 4 GB RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">\u00a3384<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px;\">4 core, 8 GB RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">\u00a3768<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px;\">8 core, 16 GB RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">\u00a31536<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px;\">16 core, 32 GB RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px; text-align: right;\">\u00a33072<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 50%; height: 25px;\">32 core, 64 GB RAM<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n        <footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n                    <\/footer><!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<\/article><!-- #post-## -->\n<article id=\"post-1756\" class=\"sq-hentry post-1756 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish hentry kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n            <\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"sq-post-wrapper\">\n        <header class=\"entry-header\">\n            <h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/research-data-storage-service\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Research Data Storage Service<\/a><\/h2>\n                    <\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n        <div class=\"entry-content\">\n            <h3>Information about the DTS Research Data Storage Service can be found on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/digital-technology-services\/service-catalogue\/research-data-storage-service\">DTS Research Data Storage webpage<\/a>.<\/h3>\n\n                    <\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n        <footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n                    <\/footer><!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<\/article><!-- #post-## -->\n<article id=\"post-1760\" class=\"sq-hentry post-1760 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish hentry kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n            <\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"sq-post-wrapper\">\n        <header class=\"entry-header\">\n            <h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/academic-cluster-service\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Reading Academic Computing Cluster Service<\/a><\/h2>\n                    <\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n        <div class=\"entry-content\">\n            <h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>The <strong>Reading Academic Computing Cluster (RACC)<\/strong> is a Linux cluster which provides resources for interactive research computing and batch jobs submissions to the University of Reading staff and students.<\/p>\n<p>The cluster consists of login nodes and a larger number of compute nodes. On a typical cluster, login nodes are used only for preparing and submitting batch jobs. Here, we provide several load-balanced login nodes, equipped with multi-core processors, large memory and fast network connection to the research data storage volumes, such that they can also be used for interactive research computing, such as data analysis and visualization, or code development and testing.<\/p>\n<p>In batch mode the tasks are described in a script and submitted to the scheduler, to be run on one of the compute nodes without further user intervention.\u00a0 The compute nodes provide over 500 CPU cores for serial and parallel batch jobs. The default time limit for a batch job is 24 hours, but when it is justified, running longer batch jobs is also possible. When justified by the project requirements, it is also possible to use compute node allocation for interactive processing.<\/p>\n<p>In the future, approximately 300TB of local scratch storage will be provided.<\/p>\n<p>A comprehensive list of installed software can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/act-software-list\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>How to access<\/h2>\n<p>The RACC can be accessed by connecting to cluster.act.rdg.ac.uk:<br \/>\n<span class=\"lang:default decode:true crayon-inline \">ssh cluster.act.rdg.ac.uk<\/span><\/p>\n<h2>Costs<\/h2>\n<p>The majority of cluster resources are available free of charge, subject to fair use policy. Details of this policy will follow. Dedicated paid-for resources can be purchased and integrated with the cluster.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n        <footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n                    <\/footer><!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<\/article><!-- #post-## -->\n<article id=\"post-1768\" class=\"sq-hentry post-1768 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/off-site-cloud-storage\/\"><img class=\"colorbox-6720\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/icons\/image-512x420.jpg\" alt=\"Off Site Cloud Storage\"><\/a>\n            <\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"sq-post-wrapper\">\n        <header class=\"entry-header\">\n            <h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/off-site-cloud-storage\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Off Site Cloud Storage<\/a><\/h2>\n                    <\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n        <div class=\"entry-content\">\n            <p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1>OneDrive for Business<\/h1>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>OneDrive for Business is a managed cloud storage that allows users to store and share files and folders online.<\/p>\n<h2>How to access<\/h2>\n<p>Simply login to Office 365 to gain access to OneDrive for Business:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/login.microsoftonline.com\/\" name=\"o365\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"ae_image colorbox-1768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/web\/MultimediaFiles\/button-login.png\" alt=\"loginbutt\" width=\"246\" height=\"45\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>USEFUL LINKS\/GUIDES<\/h2>\n<p>Microsoft has provided some user guides to help you get up and running with OneDrive for Business:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-gb\/article\/OneDrive-for-Business-Quick-Start-a1397e56-61ec-4ed2-9dac-727bf8ac3357#ID0EAABAAA=Overview\" name=\"onedrive-overview\">Overview<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-gb\/article\/OneDrive-for-Business-Quick-Start-a1397e56-61ec-4ed2-9dac-727bf8ac3357#ID0EAABAAA=Set_up_\/_sign_in\" name=\"onedrive-signin\">Set up\/sign in<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-gb\/article\/OneDrive-for-Business-Quick-Start-a1397e56-61ec-4ed2-9dac-727bf8ac3357#ID0EAABAAA=First_steps\" name=\"onedrive-quickstart\">Quick start<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/support.office.com\/en-gb\/article\/OneDrive-for-Business-Quick-Start-a1397e56-61ec-4ed2-9dac-727bf8ac3357#ID0EAABAAA=Next_steps\" name=\"onedrive-nextsteps\">Next steps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>USE OF ONEDRIVE<\/h2>\n<p>Ensure there are no contractual restrictions on use of Cloud Storage for the work you wish to store in One Drive. Use OneDrive for collaboration but be mindful that any documents used by a team will need to be moved should the owner of the document leave. Please read the University of Reading&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/nmsruntime\/saveasdialog.aspx?lID=124037&amp;sID=428129\" name=\"Data_Security_One_Drive_IMPS_Mar_2017\">usage requirements<\/a>\u00a0regarding OneDrive.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>OneDrive For Business<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Cost<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Free of charge for all Staff &amp; Students<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Default capacity<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">5TB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Integration with UoR systems<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Yes \u2013 uses UoR login<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Approved for storage of UoR\u00a0 data<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Is data stored in the EU<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Maximum file size (for individual file)<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">15GB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Supported Operating systems<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Windows (App &amp; Web)<\/p>\n<p>MacOS (App &amp; Web)<\/p>\n<p>Linux (Web only)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Ability to access files via App, without having to Sync entire content <\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Windows 10 (from Q2 2018) tbc<\/p>\n<p>MacOS (10.9 and above)<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Data can be shared with staff\/students at UoR?<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Data can be shared with users outside of UoR<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"210\"><strong>Data can be shared with users who don\u2019t have an account with the provider<\/strong><\/td>\n<td width=\"210\">Yes<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n        <footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n                    <\/footer><!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<\/article><!-- #post-## -->\n<article id=\"post-339\" class=\"sq-hentry post-339 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish hentry kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n            <\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"sq-post-wrapper\">\n        <header class=\"entry-header\">\n            <h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/managed-desktop-service\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Linux Managed Desktop Service<\/a><\/h2>\n                    <\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n        <div class=\"entry-content\">\n            <div id=\"c5LO_5P\" class=\"a0 b5 c1 d0 e2 f10 h5 i6 j3 k1 l2\">\n<p>Note: the following desktop is a remote desktop and users need to connect with their PC \/ Mac. ACT supports the services, but do not provide the personal desktop hardware.<\/p>\n<h1>Linux Desktops<\/h1>\n<h2>Description<\/h2>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Linux Desktop<\/em>\u00a0service uses NoMachine NX to provide access to Linux desktop environment software running on a set of servers, via client software running on office desktop computers.<br \/>\nThe main purpose of the Linux Desktop Service is to facilitate the use of the Research Processing service for Windows and Mac users.<br \/>\nUsing the\u00a0NoMachine software, you&#8217;ll have to first connect to\u00a0nx.reading.ac.uk.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/how-to-use-the-linux-desktop-service-nx\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The only Linux desktop applications supported by IT are the following terminal emulators: gnome-terminal and xterm.\u00a0 Other Linux desktop applications may be installed but no support for their use is available from IT.<\/p>\n<h2>How to access<\/h2>\n<p>The NX service is available to all staff and students.\u00a0 However, from January 2021, if you haven\u2019t used it before, if you require off-campus access,\u00a0 you will need to request it by sending an email to <a href=\"mailto:it@reading.ac.uk\">it@reading.ac.uk<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase_category\/desktop-guide\/\">See user&#8217;s guide.<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>Costs<\/h2>\n<p>The Linux desktop service is free of charge.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n                    <\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n        <footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n                    <\/footer><!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<\/article><!-- #post-## -->\n<article id=\"post-2323\" class=\"sq-hentry post-2323 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry kbe_taxonomy-academic-cluster-articles kbe_taxonomy-software kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n                    <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/act-software-list\/\"><img class=\"colorbox-6720\"  decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/icons\/software.png\" alt=\"ACT software list\"><\/a>\n            <\/figure>\n\n\n    <div class=\"sq-post-wrapper\">\n        <header class=\"entry-header\">\n            <h2 class=\"entry-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/act-software-list\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">ACT software list<\/a><\/h2>\n                    <\/header><!-- .entry-header -->\n\n        <div class=\"entry-content\">\n            <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. The software is only installed in default system paths from software package managers (apt).<\/p>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse;width: 100%;height: 160px\" 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: 61.8503%;height: 25px\"><strong>Description<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3222%;height: 25px\"><strong>Commands<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 10px\">git<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8503%;height: 10px\">Version control system,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/git-scm.com\">https:\/\/git-scm.com<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3222%;height: 10px\">git<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">curl<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8503%;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: 17.3222%;height: 25px\">curl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">ncview<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8503%;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: 17.3222%;height: 25px\">ncview<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">rclone<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8503%;height: 25px\">A command line program to sync files and directories to and from cloud storage including OneDrive, see also: <a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/knowledgebase\/rclone-sync\/\">Transferring files to OneDrive for Business via rclone<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rclone.org\">https:\/\/rclone.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3222%;height: 25px\">\u00a0rclone<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">rsync<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8503%;height: 25px\">File transfer utility,<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/rsync.samba.org\">https:\/\/rsync.samba.org<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 17.3222%;height: 25px\">rsync<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px\">\n<td style=\"width: 20.8275%;height: 25px\">firefox<\/td>\n<td style=\"width: 61.8503%;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: 17.3222%;height: 25px\">firefox<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<h3>Packages installed for Meteorology<\/h3>\n<p>Ubuntu\u00a0 repositories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">cmake,ghostscript,gimp,git,gv,imagemagick,latexdiff,latex2rtf,libreoffice,lynx,pdftk,php,r-base,rcs,subversion,texlive-full,texmaker,w3m,vlc,xfig,xournal<\/p>\n<p>Other repositories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">chrome<\/p>\n<h3>Packages installed for Computer Science<\/h3>\n<p>Ubuntu\u00a0 repositories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">cmake-qt-gui,eclipse,git-gui,gedit,meld,nano,vim,gcc,clang,dnsutils,strace,doxygen<\/p>\n<p>Other repositories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">atom,eclipse,visual_studio_code<\/p>\n<p>Direct install from archive file<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px\">archi<\/p>\n\n                    <\/div><!-- .entry-content -->\n\n        <footer class=\"entry-footer\">\n                    <\/footer><!-- .entry-footer -->\n    <\/div>\n<\/article><!-- #post-## -->\n<article id=\"post-6720\" class=\"sq-hentry post-6720 kbe_knowledgebase type-kbe_knowledgebase status-publish has-post-thumbnail hentry kbe_taxonomy-web-description kbe_tags-service_description\">\n\n    <figure class=\"entry-figure\">\n                    <a 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(CMS) that allows you to create, edit your website pages as easily as editing a document in a text editor.<\/p>\n<p>For a basic introduction to WordPress see A Simple Beginners Guide to WordPress on YouTube<\/p>\n<p>This service is free of charge.<\/p>\n<p>If you want to create a website,<a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/act\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/06\/Wordpress-for-research_process-for-requesting_May20221.pdf\"> please read this guidance [LINK TO PDF]<\/a> and then <a href=\"mailto:vbs12r@reading.ac.uk\">contact the Research Communication team to discuss your requirements.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read the full procedure description below.<\/p>\n<p>The default website URL will be: https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/yourwebsite. 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