Softenv on HPC clusters
User Environment.
The LSU HPC systems make use of softenv to allow for adding software to the user's environment. Executing softenv on philip will display the available software:
$ softenv
+ImageMagick-6.4.6.9-intel-11.1
+ParMetis-3.1.1-intel-11.1-mpich-1.2.7p1
+R-2.8.1-gcc-4.3.2
...
In order to add software to your environment, you'll need to add the appropriate key to your ~/.soft file. For example, to add the package ImageMagick to your user environment, you would need to add the following:
$ cat ~/.soft
+ImageMagick-6.4.6.9-intel-11.1
@default
The order in which you add keys to ~/.soft is important. The first occurrence of a setting takes precedence.
Once the entries are to your liking, you must then execute the command resoft, i.e.:
$ resoft
If your code needs to link to a library of given package, you will find all software installed under /usr/local/packages/, e.g.:
$ ls /usr/local/packages/
apache_ant boost fuse gold hdf5 ...
arpack boostjam gamess graphviz hypre
atlas condor git gromacs ImageMagick
blacs fftw gnuplot gsl iozone
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