Software

General Software Information

Many widely used pieces of software are installed in central locations for your convenience and to avoid replication on the system.

Some applications are only available on specific back-end nodes. For example Intel Xeon Phi applications are only relevant on the xenomorph node containing the Xeon Phi (MIC) hardware.

Utilities are available on all nodes, including the Zrek login node.

Software on Zrek is accessed through use of user environment modules (which set up your environment to run an application). In most cases you should log in to the required backend node and then set up your modules / environment.

Select from the categories of applications in the menu on the left to see which nodes the application is available on and how to run it.

Requesting Additional Software

If you wish to access software we do not have on the system please contact us via its-ri-team@manchester.ac.uk ; we will discuss the requirement with you and do our best to help. Usually it is possible to add most freely available software and commercial packages, where licenses exist on campus. Commercial software which does not have a campus license can be more problematic to handle so please contact us before assuming that a purchase you wish to make will work on zrek. For software that only one user requires it might be deemed most suitable for you to install it in your home directory. Although we may be able to install software we cannot guarantee to provide in-depth support for every package.

Please note that linux has a lot of packages which we cannot list here, but which are available by default on the command line.