Building Software

The HPC Clusters have two suites of compilers available for users:

  • GCC – These are the standard, free compilers available on Linux servers as standard
  • Intel – These are commercial compilers available from Intel

Both of these suites of compilers are available in a number of versions, in order to allow backward compatibility as well as providing the latest versions.

As well as compilers for the standard languages C, C++ and Fortran, software modules containing Python v3 and MatLab are also available.

A number of software libraries are also provided including the two most common MPI implementations – MVAPICH2 (a flavour of MPICH) and Open-MPI.

For the complete list of available compilers and libraries, please visit the Available Software page.