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Available CS AARCH64 Modules

Chem

Module Description
libxc Libxc is a library of exchange-correlation functionals for density-functional theory. The aim is to provide a portable, well tested and reliable set of exchange and correlation functionals.
Molpro Molpro is a local_complete system of ab initio programs for molecular electronic structure calculations.

Compiler

Module Description
Clang C, C++, Objective-C compiler, based on LLVM. Does not include C++ standard library -- use libstdc++ from GCC.
GCC The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
GCCcore The GNU Compiler Collection includes front ends for C, C++, Objective-C, Fortran, Java, and Ada, as well as libraries for these languages (libstdc++, libgcj,...).
Go Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
LLVM The LLVM Core libraries provide a modern source- and target-independent optimizer, along with code generation support for many popular CPUs (as well as some less common ones!) These libraries are built around a well specified code representation known as the LLVM intermediate representation ("LLVM IR"). The LLVM Core libraries are well documented, and it is particularly easy to invent your own language (or port an existing compiler) to use LLVM as an optimizer and code generator.
NVHPC C, C++ and Fortran compilers included with the NVIDIA HPC SDK (previously: PGI)

Data

Module Description
h5py HDF5 for Python (h5py) is a general-purpose Python interface to the Hierarchical Data Format library, version 5. HDF5 is a versatile, mature scientific software library designed for the fast, flexible storage of enormous amounts of data.
HDF5 HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex data.
LAME LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.

Devel

Module Description
Autoconf Autoconf is an extensible package of M4 macros that produce shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages. These scripts can adapt the packages to many kinds of UNIX-like systems without manual user intervention. Autoconf creates a configuration script for a package from a template file that lists the operating system features that the package can use, in the form of M4 macro calls.
Automake Automake: GNU Standards-compliant Makefile generator
Autotools This bundle collect the standard GNU build tools: Autoconf, Automake and libtool
Boost Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
CMake CMake, the cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
gperf GNU gperf is a perfect hash function generator. For a given list of strings, it produces a hash function and hash table, in form of C or C++ code, for looking up a value depending on the input string. The hash function is perfect, which means that the hash table has no collisions, and the hash table lookup needs a single string comparison only.
intltool intltool is a set of tools to centralize translation of many different file formats using GNU gettext-compatible PO files.
M4 GNU M4 is an implementation of the traditional Unix macro processor. It is mostly SVR4 compatible although it has some extensions (for example, handling more than 9 positional parameters to macros). GNU M4 also has built-in functions for including files, running shell commands, doing arithmetic, etc.
makeinfo makeinfo is part of the Texinfo project, the official documentation format of the GNU project. This is a minimal build with very basic functionality. Should only be used for build dependencies.
Mako A super-fast templating language that borrows the best ideas from the existing templating languages
ncurses The Ncurses (new curses) library is a free software emulation of curses in System V Release 4.0, and more. It uses Terminfo format, supports pads and color and multiple highlights and forms characters and function-key mapping, and has all the other SYSV-curses enhancements over BSD Curses.
pkg-config pkg-config is a helper tool used when compiling applications and libraries. It helps you insert the correct compiler options on the command line so an application can use gcc -o test test.c pkg-config --libs --cflags glib-2.0 for instance, rather than hard-coding values on where to find glib (or other libraries).
pkgconf pkgconf is a program which helps to configure compiler and linker flags for development libraries. It is similar to pkg-config from freedesktop.org.
pkgconfig pkgconfig is a Python module to interface with the pkg-config command line tool
SQLite SQLite: SQL Database Engine in a C Library
squashfs-tools Squashfs is a local_compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.
xorg-macros X.org macros utilities.

Lang

Module Description
Bison Bison is a general-purpose parser generator that converts an annotated context-free grammar into a deterministic LR or generalized LR (GLR) parser employing LALR(1) parser tables.
flex Flex (Fast Lexical Analyzer) is a tool for generating scanners. A scanner, sometimes called a tokenizer, is a program which recognizes lexical patterns in text.
FriBidi The Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
NASM NASM: General-purpose x86 assembler
nodejs Node.js is a platform built on Chrome's JavaScript runtime for easily building fast, scalable network applications. Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
Perl Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
Python Python is a programming language that lets you work more quickly and integrate your systems more effectively.
Ruby Ruby is a dynamic, open source programming language with a focus on simplicity and productivity. It has an elegant syntax that is natural to read and easy to write.
Rust Rust is a systems programming language that runs blazingly fast, prevents segfaults, and guarantees thread safety.
SciPy-bundle Bundle of Python packages for scientific software
Tcl Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a very powerful but easy to learn dynamic programming language, suitable for a very wide range of uses, including web and desktop applications, networking, administration, testing and many more.
Tkinter Tkinter module, built with the Python buildsystem
Yasm Yasm: Complete rewrite of the NASM assembler with BSD license

Lib

Module Description
Brotli Brotli is a generic-purpose lossless compression algorithm that compresses data using a combination of a modern variant of the LZ77 algorithm, Huffman coding and 2nd order context modeling, with a compression ratio comparable to the best currently available general-purpose compression methods. It is similar in speed with deflate but offers more dense compression. The specification of the Brotli Compressed Data Format is defined in RFC 7932.
elfutils The elfutils project provides libraries and tools for ELF files and DWARF data.
FLAC FLAC stands for Free Lossless Audio Codec, an audio format similar to MP3, but lossless, meaning that audio is compressed in FLAC without any loss in quality.
FlexiBLAS FlexiBLAS is a wrapper library that enables the exchange of the BLAS and LAPACK implementation used by a program without recompiling or relinking it.
GDRCopy A low-latency GPU memory copy library based on NVIDIA GPUDirect RDMA technology.
ICU ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.
libdrm Direct Rendering Manager runtime library.
libevent The libevent API provides a mechanism to execute a callback function when a specific event occurs on a file descriptor or after a timeout has been reached. Furthermore, libevent also support callbacks due to signals or regular timeouts.
libfabric Libfabric is a core component of OFI. It is the library that defines and exports the user-space API of OFI, and is typically the only software that applications deal with directly. It works in conjunction with provider libraries, which are often integrated directly into libfabric.
libffi The libffi library provides a portable, high level programming interface to various calling conventions. This allows a programmer to call any function specified by a call interface description at run-time.
libglvnd libglvnd is a vendor-neutral dispatch layer for arbitrating OpenGL API calls between multiple vendors.
libogg Ogg is a multimedia container format, and the native file and stream format for the Xiph.org multimedia codecs.
libpng libpng is the official PNG reference library
libreadline The GNU Readline library provides a set of functions for use by applications that allow users to edit command lines as they are typed in. Both Emacs and vi editing modes are available. The Readline library includes additional functions to maintain a list of previously-entered command lines, to recall and perhaps reedit those lines, and perform csh-like history expansion on previous commands.
libtool GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.
libunwind The primary goal of libunwind is to define a portable and efficient C programming interface (API) to determine the call-chain of a program. The API additionally provides the means to manipulate the preserved (callee-saved) state of each call-frame and to resume execution at any point in the call-chain (non-local goto). The API supports both local (same-process) and remote (across-process) operation. As such, the API is useful in a number of applications
libvorbis Ogg Vorbis is a fully open, non-proprietary, patent-and-royalty-free, general-purpose compressed audio format
libxml2 Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolchain developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform).
lz4 LZ4 is lossless compression algorithm, providing compression speed at 400 MB/s per core. It features an extremely fast decoder, with speed in multiple GB/s per core.
NCCL The NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) implements multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives that are performance optimized for NVIDIA GPUs.
PMIx Process Management for Exascale Environments PMI Exascale (PMIx) represents an attempt to provide an extended version of the PMI standard specifically designed to support clusters up to and including exascale sizes. The overall objective of the project is not to branch the existing pseudo-standard definitions - in fact, PMIx fully supports both of the existing PMI-1 and PMI-2 APIs - but rather to (a) augment and extend those APIs to eliminate some current restrictions that impact scalability, and (b) provide a reference implementation of the PMI-server that demonstrates the desired level of scalability.
pybind11 pybind11 is a lightweight header-only library that exposes C++ types in Python and vice versa, mainly to create Python bindings of existing C++ code.
UCC UCC (Unified Collective Communication) is a collective communication operations API and library that is flexible, complete, and feature-rich for current and emerging programming models and runtimes.
UCC-CUDA UCC (Unified Collective Communication) is a collective communication operations API and library that is flexible, complete, and feature-rich for current and emerging programming models and runtimes. This module adds the UCC CUDA support.
UCX Unified Communication X An open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and high-performance applications
UCX-CUDA Unified Communication X An open-source production grade communication framework for data centric and high-performance applications This module adds the UCX CUDA support.
zlib zlib is designed to be a free, general-purpose, legally unencumbered -- that is, not covered by any patents -- lossless data-compression library for use on virtually any computer hardware and operating system.
zstd Zstandard is a real-time compression algorithm, providing high compression ratios. It offers a very wide range of compression/speed trade-off, while being backed by a very fast decoder. It also offers a special mode for small data, called dictionary compression, and can create dictionaries from any sample set.

Math

Module Description
Eigen Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms.
ELPA Eigenvalue SoLvers for Petaflop-Applications.
GMP GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.
METIS METIS is a set of serial programs for partitioning graphs, partitioning finite element meshes, and producing fill reducing orderings for sparse matrices. The algorithms implemented in METIS are based on the multilevel recursive-bisection, multilevel k-way, and multi-constraint partitioning schemes.
MPFR The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding.

Mpi

Module Description
OpenMPI The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-3 implementation.

Numlib

Module Description
BLIS BLIS is a portable software framework for instantiating high-performance BLAS-like dense linear algebra libraries.
FFTW FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data.
FFTW.MPI FFTW is a C subroutine library for computing the discrete Fourier transform (DFT) in one or more dimensions, of arbitrary input size, and of both real and complex data.
OpenBLAS OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
ScaLAPACK The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK) library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers.
SuiteSparse SuiteSparse is a collection of libraries manipulate sparse matrices.

Perf

Module Description
OSU-Micro-Benchmarks OSU Micro-Benchmarks

System

Module Description
CUDA CUDA (formerly Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a parallel computing platform and programming model created by NVIDIA and implemented by the graphics processing units (GPUs) that they produce. CUDA gives developers access to the virtual instruction set and memory of the parallel computational elements in CUDA GPUs.
hwloc The Portable Hardware Locality (hwloc) software package provides a portable abstraction (across OS, versions, architectures, ...) of the hierarchical topology of modern architectures, including NUMA memory nodes, sockets, shared caches, cores and simultaneous multithreading. It also gathers various system attributes such as cache and memory information as well as the locality of I/O devices such as network interfaces, InfiniBand HCAs or GPUs. It primarily aims at helping applications with gathering information about modern computing hardware so as to exploit it accordingly and efficiently.
libpciaccess Generic PCI access library.
OpenSSL The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort to develop a robust, commercial-grade, full-featured, and Open Source toolchain implementing the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL v2/v3) and Transport Layer Security (TLS v1) protocols as well as a full-strength general purpose cryptography library.

Toolchain

Module Description
foss GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, including OpenMPI for MPI support, OpenBLAS (BLAS and LAPACK support), FFTW and ScaLAPACK.
gompi GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, including OpenMPI for MPI support.

Tools

Module Description
apptainer Apptainer is an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Many container platforms are available, but Apptainer is designed for ease-of-use on shared systems and in high performance computing (HPC) environments.
binutils binutils: GNU binary utilities
bzip2 bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.
cppy A small C++ header library which makes it easier to write Python extension modules. The primary feature is a PyObject smart pointer which automatically handles reference counting and provides convenience methods for performing common object operations.
cURL libcurl is a free and easy-to-use client-side URL transfer library, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, Gopher, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTSP, SCP, SFTP, SMTP, SMTPS, Telnet and TFTP. libcurl supports SSL certificates, HTTP POST, HTTP PUT, FTP uploading, HTTP form based upload, proxies, cookies, user+password authentication (Basic, Digest, NTLM, Negotiate, Kerberos), file transfer resume, http proxy tunneling and more.
DB Berkeley DB enables the development of custom data management solutions, without the overhead traditionally associated with such custom projects.
EasyBuild EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework written in Python that allows you to install software in a structured, repeatable and robust way.
expat Expat is an XML parser library written in C. It is a stream-oriented parser in which an application registers handlers for things the parser might find in the XML document (like start tags)
FPM Effing package management! Build packages for multiple platforms (deb, rpm, etc) with great ease and sanity.
gettext GNU 'gettext' is an important step for the GNU Translation Project, as it is an asset on which we may build many other steps. This package offers to programmers, translators, and even users, a well integrated set of tools and documentation
git Git is a free and open source distributed version control system designed to handle everything from small to very large projects with speed and efficiency.
groff Groff (GNU troff) is a typesetting system that reads plain text mixed with formatting commands and produces formatted output.
gzip gzip (GNU zip) is a popular data compression program as a replacement for compress
help2man help2man produces simple manual pages from the '--help' and '--version' output of other commands.
hypothesis Hypothesis is an advanced testing library for Python. It lets you write tests which are parametrized by a source of examples, and then generates simple and comprehensible examples that make your tests fail. This lets you find more bugs in your code with less work.
libarchive Multi-format archive and compression library
Meson Meson is a cross-platform build system designed to be both as fast and as user friendly as possible.
Ninja Ninja is a small build system with a focus on speed.
numactl The numactl program allows you to run your application program on specific cpu's and memory nodes. It does this by supplying a NUMA memory policy to the operating system before running your program. The libnuma library provides convenient ways for you to add NUMA memory policies into your own program.
Szip Szip compression software, providing lossless compression of scientific data
UnZip UnZip is an extraction utility for archives compressed in .zip format (also called "zipfiles"). Although highly compatible both with PKWARE's PKZIP and PKUNZIP utilities for MS-DOS and with Info-ZIP's own Zip program, our primary objectives have been portability and non-MSDOS functionality.
util-linux Set of Linux utilities
XZ xz: XZ utilities
Z3 Z3 is a theorem prover from Microsoft Research.

Vis

Module Description
FFmpeg A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
fontconfig Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration, customization and application access.
freetype FreeType 2 is a software font engine that is designed to be small, efficient, highly customizable, and portable while capable of producing high-quality output (glyph images). It can be used in graphics libraries, display servers, font conversion tools, text image generation tools, and many other products as well.
Mesa Mesa is an open-source implementation of the OpenGL specification - a system for rendering interactive 3D graphics.
Tk Tk is an open source, cross-platform widget toolchain that provides a library of basic elements for building a graphical user interface (GUI) in many different programming languages.
X11 The X Window System (X11) is a windowing system for bitmap displays
x264 x264 is a free software library and application for encoding video streams into the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC compression format, and is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.
x265 x265 is a free software library and application for encoding video streams into the H.265 AVC compression format, and is released under the terms of the GNU GPL.