Tools

List of tools for common tasks such as editing files, software development and configuration, simple post-processing. Please not that while these tools are often run on the login node, if you are processing large files or running jobs that take more than a few minutes to run, please run these tools via the batch queue. This can easily be done with a simple jobscript. Long running post-processing jobs may be killed if they are affecting the performance of the login node.

Tools and Utilities

PACKAGENOTES
cmakeCross-platform, open-source build system
dcm2niixDICOM to the NIfTI file converter
gedit - a simple text editorA simple text editor, similar to notepad
git & git-lfsVersion Control
GnuplotA command-line driven graphing utility.
Grace / xmgrace2D interactive plotting tool
ninjaSoftware build system
p7zip7z archive compression and decompression
pigz and unpigzParallel gzip file compression/decompression
Proxy (for web downloads)Envronment setup to give name of proxy server
PyCharmPython IDE
SConsSoftware configuration tool
SQLite browser (DB4S)Graphical browser for sqlite files
Subversion (svn)Version Control
UKBioBank Helper ModulefileEnvironment variables to help access UK BioBank full-release datasets.
unzipExtract files from zip archives
VSCodeA popular source-code editor by Microsoft.
zstdfast lossless compression algorithm, targeting real-time compression scenarios at zlib-level and better compression ratios

Last modified on September 4, 2018 at 11:21 am by George Leaver