HPC/Carbon Cluster - Development tools

This is an overview of the compilers and MPI libraries available on Carbon. Each package name leads to its documentation.

See also

Module catalog.

Compilers

GNU family

• GCC
• GDB
• Make
• … other manuals

Intel Software Development Products

As of 2011, we have the following tools under support within the Intel® Composer XE 2011 for Linux bundle.

• Intel C/C++
• Intel Fortran
• Math Kernel Library -- see also HPC/Software/Modules/mkl
• Integrated Performance Primitives Documentation (IPP)
• Threading Building Blocks Documentation (TBB)
• Debugger (idb)

Documentation is installed locally mainly under:

$ICC_HOME/Documentation

$ ls -F $ICC_HOME/Documentation/en_US
Release_NotesC.pdf  compiler_c/          documentation_f.htm    getting_started_f.pdf  lgpltext
Release_NotesF.pdf  compiler_f/          flicense               idb/                   mkl/
clicense            documentation_c.htm  getting_started_c.pdf  ipp/                   tbb/

No longer maintained on Carbon:

• VTune analyzer

MPI

OpenMPI

This is the primary and recommended MPI version. It supports Ethernet and InfiniBand interconnect, with InfiniBand set as default by means of an OMPI_MCA_… environment variable.

• OpenMPI Documentation
• FAQ

Intel MPI

• See HPC/Software/Modules/impi

MPICH/MPICH2

• Not installed explicitly, but Intel-MPI is based on MPICH2 and provides an MPICH2 runtime environment for precompiled binaries.