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IT4Innovations Documentation Available Anselm Modules
Available Anselm Modules Available Anselm Modules Table of contents
Numlib
Bio¶
ABySS Assembly By Short Sequences - a de novo, parallel, paired-end sequence assembler
almost all atom molecular simulation toolkit - is a fast and flexible molecular modeling environment that provides powerful and efficient algorithms for molecular simulation, homology modeling, de novo design and ab-initio calculations.
BCFtools Samtools is a suite of programs for interacting with high-throughput sequencing data. BCFtools - Reading/writing BCF2/VCF/gVCF files and calling/filtering/summarising SNP and short indel sequence variants
bcl2fastq2 bcl2fastq Conversion Software both demultiplexes data and converts BCL files generated by Illumina sequencing systems to standard FASTQ file formats for downstream analysis.
bowtie2 Bowtie 2 is an ultrafast and memory-efficient tool for aligning sequencing reads to long reference sequences.
BWA Burrows-Wheeler Aligner (BWA) is an efficient program that aligns relatively short nucleotide sequences against a long reference sequence such as the human genome.
FastQC FastQC is a quality control application for high throughput sequence data. It reads in sequence data in a variety of formats and can either provide an interactive application to review the results of several different QC checks, or create an HTML based report which can be integrated into a pipeline.
GATK The Genome Analysis Toolkit or GATK is a software package developed at the Broad Institute to analyse next-generation resequencing data. The toolkit offers a wide variety of tools, with a primary focus on variant discovery and genotyping as well as strong emphasis on data quality assurance. Its robust architecture, powerful processing engine and high-performance computing features make it capable of taking on projects of any size.
GROMACS GROMACS is a versatile package to perform molecular dynamics, i.e. simulate the Newtonian equations of motion for systems with hundreds to millions of particles.
HTSlib A C library for reading/writing high-throughput sequencing data. This package includes the utilities bgzip and tabix
PLUMED PLUMED is an open source library for free energy calculations in molecular systems which works together with some of the most popular molecular dynamics engines. Free energy calculations can be performed as a function of many order parameters with a particular focus on biological problems, using state of the art methods such as metadynamics, umbrella sampling and Jarzynski-equation based steered MD. The software, written in C++, can be easily interfaced with both fortran and C/C++ codes.
Qualimap Qualimap 2 is a platform-independent application written in Java and R that provides both a Graphical User Inteface (GUI) and a command-line interface to facilitate the quality control of alignment sequencing data and its derivatives like feature counts.
RELION RELION (for REgularised LIkelihood OptimisatioN, pronounce rely-on) is a stand-alone computer program that employs an empirical Bayesian approach to refinement of (multiple) 3D reconstructions or 2D class averages in electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM).
Rosetta Rosetta is the premier software suite for modeling macromolecular structures. As a flexible, multi-purpose application, it includes tools for structure prediction, design, and remodeling of proteins and nucleic acids.
SAMtools SAM Tools provide various utilities for manipulating alignments in the SAM format, including sorting, merging, indexing and generating alignments in a per-position format.
Cae¶
COMSOL The COMSOL Multiphysics simulation environment facilitates the steps in the modeling process – defining your geometry, meshing, specifying your physics, solving, and then visualizing your results. It also serves as a platform for the application specific modules.
deMonNano deMonNano is a software package for density functional theory based tight binding calculations. It is part of the deMon (density of Montréal) suite of programs. The present version of the code of deMon for DFT is now known as deMon2k. This code and general information about deMon are available at http://www.demon-software.com
OpenFOAM OpenFOAM is a free, open source CFD software package. OpenFOAM has an extensive range of features to solve anything from complex fluid flows involving chemical reactions, turbulence and heat transfer, to solid dynamics and electromagnetics.
Chem¶
ABINIT ABINIT is a package whose main program allows one to find the total energy, charge density and electronic structure of systems made of electrons and nuclei (molecules and periodic solids) within Density Functional Theory (DFT), using pseudopotentials and a planewave or wavelet basis.
Amber Amber (originally Assisted Model Building with Energy Refinement) is software for performing molecular dynamics and structure prediction.
ASE ASE is a python package providing an open source Atomic Simulation Environment in the Python scripting language.
CP2K CP2K is a freely available (GPL) program, written in Fortran 95, to perform atomistic and molecular simulations of solid state, liquid, molecular and biological systems. It provides a general framework for different methods such as e.g. density functional theory (DFT) using a mixed Gaussian and plane waves approach (GPW), and classical pair and many-body potentials.
cp2k-mpi CP2K with Intel MPI support.
LAMMPS LAMMPS is a classical molecular dynamics code, and an acronym for Large-scale Atomic/Molecular Massively Parallel Simulator. Has potentials for solid-state materials (metals, semiconductors) and soft matter (biomolecules, polymers) and coarse-grained or mesoscopic systems. It can be used to model atoms or, more generically, as a parallel particle simulator at the atomic, meso, or continuum scale.
Libint Libint library is used to evaluate the traditional (electron repulsion) and certain novel two-body matrix elements (integrals) over Cartesian Gaussian functions used in modern atomic and molecular theory.
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 quantum chemistry package.
namd NAMD Scalable Molecular Dynamics.
NWChem NWChem aims to provide its users with computational chemistry tools that are scalable both in their ability to treat large scientific computational chemistry problems efficiently, and in their use of available parallel computing resources from high-performance parallel supercomputers to conventional workstation clusters. NWChem software can handle: biomolecules, nanostructures, and solid-state; from quantum to classical, and all combinations; Gaussian basis functions or plane-waves; scaling from one to thousands of processors; properties and relativity.
OpenBabel Open Babel is a chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data. It's an open, collaborative project allowing anyone to search, convert, analyze, or store data from molecular modeling, chemistry, solid-state materials, biochemistry, or related areas.
ORCA ORCA is a flexible, efficient and easy-to-use general purpose tool for quantum chemistry with specific emphasis on spectroscopic properties of open-shell molecules. It features a wide variety of standard quantum chemical methods ranging from semiempirical methods to DFT to single- and multireference correlated ab initio methods. It can also treat environmental and relativistic effects.
QuantumESPRESSO Quantum ESPRESSO is an integrated suite of computer codes for electronic-structure calculations and materials modeling at the nanoscale. It is based on density-functional theory, plane waves, and pseudopotentials (both norm-conserving and ultrasoft).
Schrodinger Schrödinger aims to provide integrated software solutions and services that truly meet its customers' needs. We want to empower researchers around the world to achieve their goals of improving human health and quality of life through advanced computational techniques that transform the way chemists design compounds and materials.
TURBOMOLE TURBOMOLE is a quantum chemical program package, initially developed in the group of Prof. Dr. Reinhart Ahlrichs at the University of Karlsruhe and at the Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe. Until 2007 the main development of the program was conducted by students and postdoctoral researchers in the group of Ahlrichs, who usually changed their field of work after leaving the group. Therefore, the code was well localized at and, consequently, owned by the University of Karlsruhe. However, since 2007 the situation has changed. Several people, who started their work with TURBOMOLE in Karlsruhe, still make significant contributions and feel responsible for the program, but do no longer reside in Karlsruhe. It was thus necessary to arrange the development of TURBOMOLE in a different manner, namely as a company.
WIEN2k The program package WIEN2k allows to perform electronic structure calculations of solids using density functional theory (DFT). It is based on the full-potential (linearized) augmented plane-wave ((L)APW) + local orbitals (lo) method, one among the most accurate schemes for band structure calculations. WIEN2k is an all-electron scheme including relativistic effects and has many features.
xdrfile XTC library
Compiler¶
bupc Berkley UPC compilers and runtime environment version 2.16.2.
chicken Chicken 4.8.0.6 is an implementation of the Scheme.
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,...). [NOTE: This module does not include Objective-C, Java or Ada]
Go Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software.
gupc The GNU UPC toolset provides a compilation and execution environment for programs written in the UPC (Unified Parallel C) language. The GNU UPC compiler extends the capabilities of the GNU GCC compiler..
icc C and C++ compiler from Intel
ifort Fortran compiler from Intel
ispc Intel SPMD Program Compilers; An open-source compiler for high-performance SIMD programming on the CPU. ispc is a compiler for a variant of the C programming language, with extensions for 'single program, multiple data' (SPMD) programming. Under the SPMD model, the programmer writes a program that generally appears to be a regular serial program, though the execution model is actually that a number of program instances execute in parallel on the hardware.
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.
OpenCoarrays A transport layer for coarray Fortran compilers.
PGI C, C++ and Fortran compilers from The Portland Group - PGI
Data¶
FLAC Programs and libraries for working with Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) files.
GDAL GDAL is a translator library for raster geospatial data formats that is released under an X/MIT style Open Source license by the Open Source Geospatial Foundation. As a library, it presents a single abstract data model to the calling application for all supported formats. It also comes with a variety of useful commandline utilities for data translation and processing.
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 unique technology suite that makes possible the management of extremely large and complex data collections.
LAME LAME is a high quality MPEG Audio Layer III (MP3) encoder licensed under the LGPL.
netCDF NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
netCDF-Fortran NetCDF (network Common Data Form) is a set of software libraries and machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
PostgreSQL PostgreSQL is a powerful, open source object-relational database system. It is fully ACID compliant, has full support for foreign keys, joins, views, triggers, and stored procedures (in multiple languages). It includes most SQL:2008 data types, including INTEGER, NUMERIC, BOOLEAN, CHAR, VARCHAR, DATE, INTERVAL, and TIMESTAMP. It also supports storage of binary large objects, including pictures, sounds, or video. It has native programming interfaces for C/C++, Java, .Net, Perl, Python, Ruby, Tcl, ODBC, among others, and exceptional documentation.
redis Redis is an open source (BSD licensed), in-memory data structure store, used as a database, cache and message broker.
scikit-learn Scikit-learn integrates machine learning algorithms in the tightly-knit scientific Python world, building upon numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. As a machine-learning module, it provides versatile tools for data mining and analysis in any field of science and engineering. It strives to be simple and efficient, accessible to everybody, and reusable in various contexts.
SoX Sound eXchange, the Swiss Army knife of audio manipulation
XML-Parser This is a Perl extension interface to James Clark's XML parser, expat.
Debugger¶
Forge Allinea Forge is the complete toolsuite for software development - with everything needed to debug, profile, optimize, edit and build C, C++ and FORTRAN applications on Linux for high performance - from single threads through to complex parallel HPC codes with MPI, OpenMP, threads or CUDA.
PerformanceReports Allinea Performance Reports are the most effective way to characterize and understand the performance of HPC application runs. One single-page HTML report elegantly answers a range of vital questions for any HPC site. - Is this application well-optimized for the system and the processors it is running on? - Does it benefit from running at this scale? - Are there I/O, networking or threading bottlenecks affecting performance? - Which hardware, software or configuration changes can we make to improve performance further. - How much energy did this application use?
TotalView TotalView is a GUI-based source code defect analysis tool that gives you unprecedented control over processes and thread execution and visibility into program state and variables. It allows you to debug one or many processes and/or threads in a single window with complete control over program execution. This allows you to set breakpoints, stepping line by line through the code on a single thread, or with coordinated groups of processes or threads, and run or halt arbitrary sets of processes or threads. You can reproduce and troubleshoot difficult problems that can occur in concurrent programs that take advantage of threads, OpenMP, MPI, GPUs or coprocessors.
Valgrind Valgrind: Debugging and profiling tools
Devel¶
ant Apache Ant is a Java library and command-line tool whose mission is to drive processes described in build files as targets and extension points dependent upon each other. The main known usage of Ant is the build of Java applications.
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
Bazel Bazel is a build tool that builds code quickly and reliably. It is used to build the majority of Google's software.
Boost Boost provides free peer-reviewed portable C++ source libraries.
Caffe Caffe is a deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind. It is developed by the Berkeley Vision and Learning Center (BVLC) and community contributors.
CMake CMake, the cross-platform, open-source build system. CMake is a family of tools designed to build, test and package software.
DBus D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another. In addition to interprocess communication, D-Bus helps coordinate process lifecycle; it makes it simple and reliable to code a "single instance" application or daemon, and to launch applications and daemons on demand when their services are needed.
dbus-glib D-Bus is a message bus system, a simple way for applications to talk to one another.
Doxygen Doxygen is a documentation system for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors), Fortran, VHDL, PHP, C#, and to some extent D.
fontsproto X11 font extension wire protocol
GConf GConf is a system for storing application preferences. It is intended for user preferences; not configuration of something like Apache, or arbitrary data storage.
gflags The gflags package contains a C++ library that implements commandline flags processing. It includes built-in support for standard types such as string and the ability to define flags in the source file in which they are used.
glog A C++ implementation of the Google logging module.
GObject-Introspection GObject introspection is a middleware layer between C libraries (using GObject) and language bindings. The C library can be scanned at compile time and generate a metadata file, in addition to the actual native C library. Then at runtime, language bindings can read this metadata and automatically provide bindings to call into the C library.
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.
guile Guile is the GNU Ubiquitous Intelligent Language for Extensions, the official extension language for the GNU operating system.
intltool intltool is a set of tools to centralize translation of many different file formats using GNU gettext-compatible PO files.
Jansson Jansson is a C library for encoding, decoding and manipulating JSON data. Its main features and design principles are: * Simple and intuitive API and data model * Comprehensive documentation * No dependencies on other libraries * Full Unicode support (UTF-8) * Extensive test suite
JUnit A programmer-oriented testing framework for Java.
LevelDB LevelDB is a fast key-value storage library written at Google that provides an ordered mapping from string keys to string values.
libICU Binary maven install, Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
libSM X11 Session Management library, which allows for applications to both manage sessions, and make use of session managers to save and restore their state for later use.
LMDB OpenLDAP's Lightning Memory-Mapped Database (LMDB) library.
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.
make make-3.82: GNU version of make utility
makedepend The makedepend package contains a C-preprocessor like utility to determine build-time dependencies.
Mako A super-fast templating language that borrows the best ideas from the existing templating languages
Maven Binary maven install, Apache Maven is a software project management and comprehension tool. Based on the concept of a project object model (POM), Maven can manage a project's build, reporting and documentation from a central piece of information.
NCCL NVIDIA Collective Communications Library
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.
PCRE The PCRE library is a set of functions that implement regular expression pattern matching using the same syntax and semantics as Perl 5.
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).
pkgconfig pkgconfig is a Python module to interface with the pkg-config command line tool
protobuf Google Protocol Buffers
protobuf-python Python Protocol Buffers runtime library.
Qt Qt is a comprehensive cross-platform C++ application framework.
Qt5 Qt is a comprehensive cross-platform C++ application framework.
renderproto Xrender protocol and ancillary headers
SCons SCons is a software construction tool.
Spack Spack is a package manager for supercomputers, Linux, and macOS. It makes installing scientific software easy. With Spack, you can build a package with multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers, and all of these builds can coexist on the same machine.
Spark Spark is Hadoop MapReduce done in memory
sparsehash An extremely memory-efficient hash_map implementation. 2 bits/entry overhead! The SparseHash library contains several hash-map implementations, including implementations that optimize for space or speed.
SQLite SQLite: SQL Database Engine in a C Library
squashfs-tools Squashfs is a compressed read-only filesystem for Linux.
SWIG SWIG is a software development tool that connects programs written in C and C++ with a variety of high-level programming languages.
xbitmaps provides bitmaps for x
xcb-proto The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
xcb-util The xcb-util package provides additional extensions to the XCB library, many that were previously found in Xlib, but are not part of core X protocol.
xcb-util-image The xcb-util-image package provides additional extensions to the XCB library.
xcb-util-keysyms The xcb-util-keysyms package contains a library for handling standard X key constants and conversion to/from keycodes.
xcb-util-renderutil The xcb-util-renderutil package provides additional extensions to the XCB library..
xcb-util-wm The xcb-util-wm package contains libraries which provide client and window-manager helpers for EWMH and ICCCM.
xextproto XExtProto protocol headers.
xineramaproto X protocol and ancillary headers for xinerama
xorg-macros X.org macros utilities.
xproto X protocol and ancillary headers.
xtrans xtrans includes a number of routines to make X implementations transport-independent; at time of writing, it includes support for UNIX sockets, IPv4, IPv6, and DECnet.
ZeroMQ ZeroMQ looks like an embeddable networking library but acts like a concurrency framework. It gives you sockets that carry atomic messages across various transports like in-process, inter-process, TCP, and multicast. You can connect sockets N-to-N with patterns like fanout, pub-sub, task distribution, and request-reply. It's fast enough to be the fabric for clustered products. Its asynchronous I/O model gives you scalable multicore applications, built as asynchronous message-processing tasks. It has a score of language APIs and runs on most operating systems.
Geo¶
Doris Delft object-oriented radar interferometric software
PHREEQC A Computer Program for Speciation, Batch-Reaction, One-Dimensional Transport, and Inverse Geochemical Calculations
PROJ_4 PROJ.4 - Cartographic Projections Library originally written by Gerald Evenden then of the USGS.
Lang¶
Anaconda2 Built to complement the rich, open source Python community, the Anaconda platform provides an enterprise-ready data analytics platform that empowers companies to adopt a modern open data science analytics architecture.
Anaconda3 Built to local_complement the rich, open source Python community, the Anaconda platform provides an enterprise-ready data analytics platform that empowers local_companies to adopt a modern open data science analytics architecture.
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.
byacc Berkeley Yacc (byacc) is generally conceded to be the best yacc variant available. In contrast to bison, it is written to avoid dependencies upon a particular compiler.
Cython The Cython language makes writing C extensions for the Python language as easy as Python itself. Cython is a source code translator based on the well-known Pyrex, but supports more cutting edge functionality and optimizations.
dotNET-Core-Runtime .NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
dotNET-Core-SDK .NET is a free, cross-platform, open source developer platform for building many different types of applications.
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.
Java Java Platform, Standard Edition (Java SE) lets you develop and deploy Java applications on desktops and servers.
JuliaLang Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library. Julia's Base library, largely written in Julia itself, also integrates mature, best-of-breed open source C and Fortran libraries for linear algebra, random number generation , signal processing, and string processing. In addition, the Julia developer community is contributing a number of external packages through Julia's built-in package manager at a rapid pace. IJulia, a collaboration between the Jupyter and Julia communities, provides a powerful browser-based graphical notebook interface to Julia.
libgdiplus An Open Source implementation of the GDI+ API.
Lua Old module, description not available.
Mono An open source, cross-platform, implementation of C# and the CLR that is binary compatible with Microsoft.NET.
NASM NASM: General-purpose x86 assembler
OpenCL-runtime OpenCL™ is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from gaming and entertainment to scientific and medical software.
OpenCL-sdk OpenCL™ is the first open, royalty-free standard for cross-platform, parallel programming of modern processors found in personal computers, servers and handheld/embedded devices. OpenCL (Open Computing Language) greatly improves speed and responsiveness for a wide spectrum of applications in numerous market categories from gaming and entertainment to scientific and medical software.
Perl Larry Wall's Practical Extraction and Report Language
Python Old module, description not available.
R R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics.
RapidJSON A fast JSON parser/generator for C++ with both SAX/DOM style API Tencent is pleased to support the open source community by making RapidJSON available. Copyright (C) 2015 THL A29 Limited, a Tencent company, and Milo Yip. All rights reserved.
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.
SciPy-bundle Bundle of Python packages for scientific software
sqsgenerator This package is a Special Quasirandom Structure generator written in Python3/Cython. Please note that the programm currently only works with Python 3.
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¶
astroid The aim of this module is to provide a common base representation of python source code for projects such as pychecker, pyreverse, pylint… Well, actually the development of this library is essentially governed by pylint's needs. It used to be called logilab-astng.
Boost.Python Boost.Python is a C++ library which enables seamless interoperability between C++ and the Python programming language.
darshan-runtime Darshan is designed to capture an accurate picture of application I/O behavior, including properties such as patterns of access within files, with minimum overhead. The name is taken from a Sanskrit word for "sight" or "vision". Darshan can be used to investigate and tune the I/O behavior of complex HPC applications. In addition, Darshan's lightweight design makes it suitable for full time deployment for workload characterization of large systems. We hope that such studies will help the storage research community to better serve the needs of scientific computing. Darshan was originally developed on the IBM Blue Gene series of computers deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, but it is portable across a wide variety of platforms include the Cray XE6, Cray XC30, and Linux clusters. Darshan routinely instruments jobs using up to 786,432 compute cores on the Mira system at ALCF.
darshan-util Darshan is designed to capture an accurate picture of application I/O behavior, including properties such as patterns of access within files, with minimum overhead. The name is taken from a Sanskrit word for "sight" or "vision". Darshan can be used to investigate and tune the I/O behavior of complex HPC applications. In addition, Darshan's lightweight design makes it suitable for full time deployment for workload characterization of large systems. We hope that such studies will help the storage research community to better serve the needs of scientific computing. Darshan was originally developed on the IBM Blue Gene series of computers deployed at the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility, but it is portable across a wide variety of platforms include the Cray XE6, Cray XC30, and Linux clusters. Darshan routinely instruments jobs using up to 786,432 compute cores on the Mira system at ALCF.
Embree Embree is a collection of high-performance ray tracing kernels, developed at Intel.
freeglut freeglut is a completely OpenSourced alternative to the OpenGL Utility Toolkit (GLUT) library.
giflib giflib is a library for reading and writing gif images. It is API and ABI compatible with libungif which was in wide use while the LZW compression algorithm was patented.
glibc The Glibc package contains the main C library. This library provides the basic routines for allocating memory, searching directories, opening and closing files, reading and writing files, string handling, pattern matching, arithmetic, and so on.
GLM OpenGL Mathematics (GLM) is a header only C++ mathematics library for graphics software based on the OpenGL Shading Language (GLSL) specifications.
GlobalArrays Global Arrays (GA) is a Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) programming model
ICU ICU is a mature, widely used set of C/C++ and Java libraries providing Unicode and Globalization support for software applications.
isort isort is a Python utility / library to sort imports alphabetically, and automatically separated into sections. It provides a command line utility, Python library and plugins for various editors to quickly sort all your imports.
libarchive Multi-format archive and compression library
libdrm Direct Rendering Manager runtime library.
libepoxy Epoxy is a library for handling OpenGL function pointer management for you
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.
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.
libfontenc X11 font encoding library
libgd GD is an open source code library for the dynamic creation of images by programmers.
libjpeg-turbo libjpeg-turbo is a fork of the original IJG libjpeg which uses SIMD to accelerate baseline JPEG compression and decompression. libjpeg is a library that implements JPEG image encoding, decoding and transcoding.
libmatheval GNU libmatheval is a library (callable from C and Fortran) to parse and evaluate symbolic expressions input as text.
libpng libpng is the official PNG reference library
libpsl C library for the Public Suffix List
libpthread-stubs The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility.
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.
libsndfile Libsndfile is a C library for reading and writing files containing sampled sound (such as MS Windows WAV and the Apple/SGI AIFF format) through one standard library interface.
libsodium Sodium is a modern, easy-to-use software library for encryption, decryption, signatures, password hashing and more.
LibSoup libsoup is an HTTP client/server library for GNOME. It uses GObjects and the glib main loop, to integrate well with GNOME applications, and also has a synchronous API, for use in threaded applications.
LIBSVM LIBSVM is an integrated software for support vector classification, (C-SVC, nu-SVC), regression (epsilon-SVR, nu-SVR) and distribution estimation (one-class SVM). It supports multi-class classification.
libtasn1 Libtasn1 is the ASN.1 library used by GnuTLS, GNU Shishi and some other packages. It was written by Fabio Fiorina, and has been shipped as part of GnuTLS for some time but is now a proper GNU package.
LibTIFF tiff: Library and tools for reading and writing TIFF data files
libtool GNU libtool is a generic library support script. Libtool hides the complexity of using shared libraries behind a consistent, portable interface.
libunistring This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.
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
LibUUID Portable uuid C library
libwebp WebP is a modern image format that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, webmasters and web developers can create smaller, richer images that make the web faster.
libxcb The X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) is a replacement for Xlib featuring a small footprint, latency hiding, direct access to the protocol, improved threading support, and extensibility. .
libxml2 Libxml2 is the XML C parser and toolchain developed for the Gnome project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform).
libxslt Libxslt is the XSLT C library developed for the GNOME project (but usable outside of the Gnome platform).
libyaml LibYAML is a YAML 1.1 parser and emitter written in C.
lxml The lxml XML toolkit is a Pythonic binding for the C libraries libxml2 and libxslt.
MATIO matio is an C library for reading and writing Matlab MAT files.
mpi4py MPI for Python (mpi4py) provides bindings of the Message Passing Interface (MPI) standard for the Python programming language, allowing any Python program to exploit multiple processors.
NCCL The NVIDIA Collective Communications Library (NCCL) implements multi-GPU and multi-node collective communication primitives that are performance optimized for NVIDIA GPUs.
nettle Nettle is a cryptographic library that is designed to fit easily in more or less any context: In crypto toolkits for object-oriented languages (C++, Python, Pike, ...), in applications like LSH or GNUPG, or even in kernel space.
OpenJPEG OpenJPEG is an open-source JPEG 2000 codec written in C language. It has been developed in order to promote the use of JPEG 2000, a still-image compression standard from the Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG). Since may 2015, it is officially recognized by ISO/IEC and ITU-T as a JPEG 2000 Reference Software.
PROJ Program proj is a standard Unix filter function which converts geographic longitude and latitude coordinates into cartesian coordinates
psycopg2 Psycopg is the most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python programming language.
pylint Pylint is a Python source code analyzer which looks for programming errors, helps enforcing a coding standard and sniffs for some code smells (as defined in Martin Fowler's Refactoring book).
PyYAML PyYAML is a YAML parser and emitter for the Python programming language.
SDL2 SDL: Simple DirectMedia Layer, a cross-platform multimedia library
SIONlib SIONlib is a scalable I/O library for parallel access to task-local files. The library not only supports writing and reading binary data to or from several thousands of processors into a single or a small number of physical files, but also provides global open and close functions to access SIONlib files in parallel. SIONlib provides different interfaces: parallel access using MPI, OpenMP, or their combination, and sequential access for post-processing utilities.
snappy Snappy is a compression/decompression library. It does not aim for maximum compression, or compatibility with any other compression library; instead, it aims for very high speeds and reasonable compression.
SpatiaLite SpatiaLite is an open source library intended to extend the SQLite core to support fully fledged Spatial SQL capabilities.
spGPU spGPU is a set of custom matrix storages and CUDA kernels for sparse linear algebra computing on GPU. It isn't a replacement for cuBLAS/cuSPARSE that should be used for a full featured linear algebra environment on GPU.
tbb Intel Threading Building Blocks 4.0 (Intel TBB) is a widely used, award-winning C++ template library for creating reliable, portable, and scalable parallel applications. Use Intel TBB for a simple and rapid way of developing robust task-based parallel applications that scale to available processor cores, are compatible with multiple environments, and are easier to maintain. Intel TBB is the most proficient way to implement future-proof parallel applications that tap into the power and performance of multicore and manycore hardware platforms.
Tensorflow An open-source software library for Machine Intelligence
TRIQS TRIQS (Toolbox for Research on Interacting Quantum Systems) is a scientific project providing a set of C++ and Python libraries to develop new tools for the study of interacting quantum systems.
WebKitGTK+ WebKitGTK+ is a full-featured port of the WebKit rendering engine, suitable for projects requiring any kind of web integration, from hybrid HTML/CSS applications to full-fledged web browsers. It offers WebKit's full functionality and is useful in a wide range of systems from desktop computers to embedded systems like phones, tablets, and televisions.
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.
Math¶
Eigen Eigen is a C++ template library for linear algebra: matrices, vectors, numerical solvers, and related algorithms.
ELPA Eigenvalue SoLvers for Petaflop-Applications .
GEOS GEOS (Geometry Engine - Open Source) is a C++ port of the Java Topology Suite (JTS)
GMP GMP is a free library for arbitrary precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers, rational numbers, and floating point numbers.
h5py Test utilities for code working with files and commands
ISL isl is a library for manipulating sets and relations of integer points bounded by linear constraints.
Keras Keras is a minimalist, highly modular neural networks library, written in Python and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.
libcerf libcerf is a self-contained numeric library that provides an efficient and accurate implementation of complex error functions, along with Dawson, Faddeeva, and Voigt functions.
libxsmm LIBXSMM is a library for small dense and small sparse matrix-matrix multiplications targeting Intel Architecture (x86).
MATLAB MATLAB is a high-level language and interactive environment that enables you to perform computationally intensive tasks faster than with traditional programming languages such as C, C++, and Fortran.
MCR The MATLAB Runtime is a standalone set of shared libraries that enables the execution of compiled MATLAB applications or components on computers that do not have MATLAB installed.
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.
MLD2P4 MLD2P4 (Multi-Level Domain Decomposition Parallel Preconditioners Package based on PSBLAS) is a package of parallel algebraic multi-level preconditioners. It implements various versions of one-level additive and of multi-level additive and hybrid Schwarz algorithms. In the multi-level case, a purely algebraic approach is applied to generate coarse-level corrections, so that no geometric background is needed concerning the matrix to be preconditioned. The matrix is assumed to be square, real or complex, with a symmetric sparsity pattern.
MPFR The MPFR library is a C library for multiple-precision floating-point computations with correct rounding.
numpy Test utilities for code working with files and commands
Octave GNU Octave is a high-level interpreted language, primarily intended for numerical computations.
ParMETIS ParMETIS is an MPI-based parallel library that implements a variety of algorithms for partitioning unstructured graphs, meshes, and for computing fill-reducing orderings of sparse matrices. ParMETIS extends the functionality provided by METIS and includes routines that are especially suited for parallel AMR computations and large scale numerical simulations. The algorithms implemented in ParMETIS are based on the parallel multilevel k-way graph-partitioning, adaptive repartitioning, and parallel multi-constrained partitioning schemes.
PSBLAS Most computationally intensive applications work on irregular and sparse domains that complicate their implementation on parallel machines. The major goal of the Parallel Sparse Basic Linear Algebra Subroutines (PSBLAS) project is to provide a framework to enable easy, efficient and portable implementations of iterative solvers for linear systems, while shielding the user from most details of their parallelization. The interface is designed keeping in view a Single Program Multiple Data programming model on distributed memory machines.
PSBLAS-ext PSBLAS - Extended formats and NVIDIA GPU support
Qhull Qhull computes the convex hull, Delaunay triangulation, Voronoi diagram, halfspace intersection about a point, furthest-site Delaunay triangulation, and furthest-site Voronoi diagram. The source code runs in 2-d, 3-d, 4-d, and higher dimensions. Qhull implements the Quickhull algorithm for computing the convex hull.
ScientificPython ScientificPython is a collection of Python modules for scientific computing. It contains support for geometry, mathematical functions, statistics, physical units, IO, visualization, and parallelization.
scipy Test utilities for code working with files and commands
SCOTCH Software package and libraries for sequential and parallel graph partitioning, static mapping, and sparse matrix block ordering, and sequential mesh and hypergraph partitioning.
Theano Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently.
Mpi¶
bullxmpi Sets up Open MPI in your environment.
impi The Intel(R) MPI Library for Linux* OS is a multi-fabric message passing library based on ANL MPICH2 and OSU MVAPICH2. The Intel MPI Library for Linux OS implements the Message Passing Interface, version 2 (MPI-2) specification.
lam Sets up intel MPI in your enviornment.
MPICH MPICH v3.x is an open source high-performance MPI 3.0 implementation. It does not support InfiniBand (use MVAPICH2 with InfiniBand devices).
mvapich2 Sets up MPI in your environment.
OpenMPI The Open MPI Project is an open source MPI-3 implementation.
Numlib¶
Armadillo Armadillo is an open-source C++ linear algebra library (matrix maths) aiming towards a good balance between speed and ease of use. Integer, floating point and complex numbers are supported, as well as a subset of trigonometric and statistics functions.
arpack-ng ARPACK is a collection of Fortran77 subroutines designed to solve large scale eigenvalue problems.
ATLAS ATLAS (Automatically Tuned Linear Algebra Software) is the application of the AEOS (Automated Empirical Optimization of Software) paradigm, with the present emphasis on the Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS), a widely used, performance-critical, linear algebra kernel library.
CGAL [The goal of the CGAL Open Source Project is to provide easy access to efficient and reliable geometric algorithms in the form of a C++ library.
Clp [Clp (COIN-OR linear programming) is an open-source linear programming solver written in C++. It is primarily meant to be used as a callable library, but a basic stand-alone executable version is also available. It is a part of the COIN-OR project (https://www.coin-or.org).
cuDNN The NVIDIA CUDA Deep Neural Network library (cuDNN) is a GPU-accelerated library of primitives for deep neural networks.
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.
GSL The GNU Scientific Library (GSL) is a numerical library for C and C++ programmers. The library provides a wide range of mathematical routines such as random number generators, special functions and least-squares fitting.
Hypre Hypre is a library for solving large, sparse linear systems of equations on massively parallel computers. The problems of interest arise in the simulation codes being developed at LLNL and elsewhere to study physical phenomena in the defense, environmental, energy, and biological sciences.
imkl Intel Math Kernel Library is a library of highly optimized, extensively threaded math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications that require maximum performance. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms, Vector Math, and more.
LIBLINEAR LIBLINEAR is a simple package for solving large-scale regularized linear classification and regression. It supports L2-regularized logistic regression, L2-loss support vector classification L1-loss support vector classification, L1-regularized L2-loss support vector classification, L1-regularized logistic regression L2-regularized L2-loss support vector regression, L1-loss support vector regression.
mkl Intel Math Kernel Library is a library of highly optimized, extensively threaded math routines for science, engineering, and financial applications that require maximum performance. Core math functions include BLAS, LAPACK, ScaLAPACK, Sparse Solvers, Fast Fourier Transforms, Vector Math, and more.
MPI-LIBLINEAR MPI LIBLINEAR is an extension of LIBLINEAR on distributed environments. The usage and the data format are the same as LIBLINEAR. It supports L2-regularized logistic regression, L2-regularized logistic regression, L2-regularized L2-loss linear SVM (primal trust-region Newton), L2-regularized L1-loss linear SVM (dual), L2-regularized logistic regression (primal limited common directions), L2-regularized L2-loss linear SVM (primal limited common directions). Module created by the PERMON Team (http://permon.it4i.cz).
NLopt NLopt is a free/open-source library for nonlinear optimization, providing a common interface for a number of different free optimization routines available online as well as original implementations of various other algorithms.
OpenBLAS OpenBLAS is an optimized BLAS library based on GotoBLAS2 1.13 BSD version.
PETSc PETSc, pronounced PET-see (the S is silent), is a suite of data structures and routines for the scalable (parallel) solution of scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations..
qrupdate qrupdate is a Fortran library for fast updates of QR and Cholesky decompositions.
ScaLAPACK The ScaLAPACK (or Scalable LAPACK) library includes a subset of LAPACK routines redesigned for distributed memory MIMD parallel computers.
SLEPc SLEPc (Scalable Library for Eigenvalue Problem Computations) is a software library for the solution of large scale sparse eigenvalue problems on parallel computers. It is an extension of PETSc and can be used for either standard or generalized eigenproblems, with real or complex arithmetic. It can also be used for computing a partial SVD of a large, sparse, rectangular matrix, and to solve quadratic eigenvalue problems.
SuiteSparse SuiteSparse is a collection of libraries manipulate sparse matrices.
Trilinos The Trilinos Project is an effort to develop algorithms and enabling technologies within an object-oriented software framework for the solution of large-scale, complex multi-physics engineering and scientific problems. A unique design feature of Trilinos is its focus on packages.
Os¶
CentOS The CentOS Project is a community-driven free software effort focused on delivering a robust open source ecosystem. For users, we offer a consistent manageable platform that suits a wide variety of deployments. For open source communities, we offer a solid, predictable base to build upon, along with extensive resources to build, test, release, and maintain their code. We're also expanding the availability of CentOS images across a number of vendors, providing official images for Amazon, Google, and more. For self-hosted cloud, we also provide a generic cloud-init enabled image. For more information about updates and improvements in CentOS 7, please check out the release notes or the release announcement in the mailing list archive.
Debian Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system for personal computers, tablets and smartphones, where Ubuntu Touch edition is used. It also runs network servers. That is usually with the Ubuntu Server edition, either on physical or virtual servers (such as on mainframes) or with containers, that is with enterprise-class features. It runs on the most popular architectures, including server-class ARM-based. Ubuntu is published by Canonical Ltd, who offer commercial support. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, 'human-ness'), which Canonical Ltd. suggests can be loosely translated as "humanity to others" or "I am what I am because of who we all are". Since Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Ubuntu has used Unity as its default user interface for the desktop, but following the release of Ubuntu 17.10 it will move to the GNOME 3 desktop instead, as work on Unity ends. Ubuntu is the most popular operating system running in hosted environments, so–called "clouds", as it is the most popular server Linux distribution. Development of Ubuntu is led by UK-based Canonical Ltd., a company of South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical generates revenue through the sale of technical support and other services related to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu project is publicly committed to the principles of open-source software development; people are encouraged to use free software, study how it works, improve upon it, and distribute it.
Ubuntu Ubuntu is a Debian-based Linux operating system for personal computers, tablets and smartphones, where Ubuntu Touch edition is used. It also runs network servers. That is usually with the Ubuntu Server edition, either on physical or virtual servers (such as on mainframes) or with containers, that is with enterprise-class features. It runs on the most popular architectures, including server-class ARM-based. Ubuntu is published by Canonical Ltd, who offer commercial support. It is based on free software and named after the Southern African philosophy of ubuntu (literally, 'human-ness'), which Canonical Ltd. suggests can be loosely translated as "humanity to others" or "I am what I am because of who we all are". Since Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal Ubuntu has used Unity as its default user interface for the desktop, but following the release of Ubuntu 17.10 it will move to the GNOME 3 desktop instead, as work on Unity ends. Ubuntu is the most popular operating system running in hosted environments, so–called "clouds", as it is the most popular server Linux distribution. Development of Ubuntu is led by UK-based Canonical Ltd., a company of South African entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth. Canonical generates revenue through the sale of technical support and other services related to Ubuntu. The Ubuntu project is publicly committed to the principles of open-source software development; people are encouraged to use free software, study how it works, improve upon it, and distribute it.
Perf¶
Advisor Vectorization Optimization and Thread Prototyping - Vectorize & thread code or performance "dies" - Easy workflow + data + tips = faster code faster - Prioritize, Prototype & Predict performance gain
Cube Cube, which is used as performance report explorer for Scalasca and Score-P, is a generic tool for displaying a multi-dimensional performance space consisting of the dimensions (i) performance metric, (ii) call path, and (iii) system resource. Each dimension can be represented as a tree, where non-leaf nodes of the tree can be collapsed or expanded to achieve the desired level of granularity.
CubeGUI Cube, which is used as performance report explorer for Scalasca and Score-P, is a generic tool for displaying a multi-dimensional performance space consisting of the dimensions (i) performance metric, (ii) call path, and (iii) system resource. Each dimension can be represented as a tree, where non-leaf nodes of the tree can be collapsed or expanded to achieve the desired level of granularity.
CubeLib Cube, which is used as performance report explorer for Scalasca and Score-P, is a generic tool for displaying a multi-dimensional performance space consisting of the dimensions (i) performance metric, (ii) call path, and (iii) system resource. Each dimension can be represented as a tree, where non-leaf nodes of the tree can be collapsed or expanded to achieve the desired level of granularity.
CubeW Cube, which is used as performance report explorer for Scalasca and Score-P, is a generic tool for displaying a multi-dimensional performance space consisting of the dimensions (i) performance metric, (ii) call path, and (iii) system resource. Each dimension can be represented as a tree, where non-leaf nodes of the tree can be collapsed or expanded to achieve the desired level of granularity.
OPARI2 OPARI2, the successor of Forschungszentrum Juelich's OPARI, is a source-to-source instrumentation tool for OpenMP and hybrid codes. It surrounds OpenMP directives and runtime library calls with calls to the POMP2 measurement interface.
OTF2 The Open Trace Format 2 is a highly scalable, memory efficient event trace data format plus support library. It is the new standard trace format for Scalasca, Vampir, and TAU and is open for other tools.
PAPI PAPI provides the tool designer and application engineer with a consistent interface and methodology for use of the performance counter hardware found in most major microprocessors. PAPI enables software engineers to see, in near real time, the relation between software performance and processor events. In addition Component PAPI provides access to a collection of components that expose performance measurement opportunites across the hardware and software stack.
PDT Program Database Toolkit (PDT) is a framework for analyzing source code written in several programming languages and for making rich program knowledge accessible to developers of static and dynamic analysis tools. PDT implements a standard program representation, the program database (PDB), that can be accessed in a uniform way through a class library supporting common PDB operations.
Scalasca Scalasca is a software tool that supports the performance optimization of parallel programs by measuring and analyzing their runtime behavior. The analysis identifies potential performance bottlenecks -- in particular those concerning communication and synchronization -- and offers guidance in exploring their causes.
Score-P The Score-P measurement infrastructure is a highly scalable and easy-to-use tool suite for profiling, event tracing, and online analysis of HPC applications.
Vampir The Vampir software tool provides an easy-to-use framework that enables developers to quickly display and analyze arbitrary program behavior at any level of detail. The tool suite implements optimized event analysis algorithms and customizable displays that enable fast and interactive rendering of very complex performance monitoring data.
Phys¶
ALAMODE ALAMODE is an open source software designed for analyzing lattice anharmonicity and lattice thermal conductivity of solids. By using an external DFT package such as VASP and Quantum ESPRESSO, you can extract harmonic and anharmonic force constants straightforwardly with ALAMODE. Using the calculated anharmonic force constants, you can also estimate lattice thermal conductivity, phonon linewidth, and other anharmonic phonon properties from first principles.
ALPScore The ALPS project (Algorithms and Libraries for Physics Simulations) is an open source effort aiming at providing high-end simulation codes for strongly correlated quantum mechanical systems as well as C++ libraries for simplifying the development of such code.
DynaPhoPy Software to calculate crystal microscopic anharmonic properties from molecular dynamics (MD) using the normal-mode-decomposition technique. These properties include the phonon frequency shifts and linewidths, as well as the renormalized force constanst and thermal properties by using quasiparticle theory. This code includes interfaces for MD outputs from VASP and LAMMPS .PHONOPY code is used to obtain harmonic phonon modes.
MotionCor2 This program corrects anisotropic image motion at the single pixel level across the whole frame, suitable for both single particle and tomographic images.
mumax GPU accelerated micromagnetic simulator.
phono3py This software calculates phonon-phonon interaction related properties
phonopy Phonopy is an open source package of phonon calculations based on the supercell approach.
RSPt RSPt is a code for electronic structure calculations and its acronym stands for Relativistic Spin Polarized toolkit.
Siesta SIESTA is both a method and its computer program implementation, to perform efficient electronic structure calculations and ab initio molecular dynamics simulations of molecules and solids. This version si compiled with OpenMP and MPI support.
SPRKKR The SPRKKR band structure package allows to calculate the electronic structure of arbitrary 3-D periodic systems, including systems with chemical disorder.
UDUNITS UDUNITS supports conversion of unit specifications between formatted and binary forms, arithmetic manipulation of units, and conversion of values between compatible scales of measurement.
UppASD Uppsala Atomistic Spin Dynamics software.The UppASD software package is a simulation suite to study magnetization dynamics by means of the atomistic version of the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation.
Vampire Vampire is a high performance general purpose code for the atomistic simulation of magnetic materials.
VASP The Vienna Ab initio Simulation Package (VASP) is a computer program for atomic scale materials modelling, e.g. electronic structure calculations and quantum-mechanical molecular dynamics, from first principles. To use VASP, You need academic licenses from University of Wiena. Follow the instructions https://www.vasp.at/index.php/faqs. Then send us please a list of authorized users and their ID for which you need this access. Please use only http://support.it4i.cz/rt. We are responsible to verify your licenses. After succesfull verification You will be granted to use VASP in our enviroment.
Python¶
absl-py Abseil Python Common Libraries, see https://github.com/abseil/abseil-py.
argparse The argparse module makes it easy to write user friendly command line interfaces.
attrs Classes Without Boilerplate
Biopython Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation written in Python by an international team of developers. It is a distributed collaborative effort to develop Python libraries and applications which address the needs of current and future work in bioinformatics.
BoltzTraP2 BoltzTraP2 is a modern implementation of the smoothed Fourier interpolation algorithm for electronic bands that formed the base of the original and widely used BoltzTraP code.
certifi Python package for providing Mozillas CA Bundle.
click A simple wrapper around optparse for powerful command line utilities.
dask Parallel PyData with Task Scheduling.
decorator Better living through Python with decorators.
DynaPhoPy oftware to calculate crystal microscopic anharmonic properties from molecular dynamics (MD) using the normal-mode-decomposition technique.
enum An enumeration is a set of symbolic names (members) bound to unique, constant values.
greenlet Greenlets are lightweight coroutines for in-process concurrent programming.
horovod Distributed training framework for TensorFlow.
Jinja2 A small but fast and easy to use stand-alone template engine written in pure python.
latexcodec A lexer and codec to work with LaTeX code in Python.
MarkupSafe Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
matplotlib Matplotlib is a python 2D plotting library which produces publication quality figures in a variety of hardcopy formats and interactive environments across platforms. matplotlib can be used in python scripts, the python and ipython shell, web application servers, and six graphical user interface toolkits.
mdtraj Read, write and analyze MD trajectories with only a few lines of Python code.
Mercurial Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.
mock An enumeration is a set of symbolic names (members) bound to unique, constant values.
monty Monty is the missing complement to Python.
mpmath Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic.
networkx NetworkX is a Python package for the creation, manipulation, and study of the structure, dynamics, and functions of complex networks.
numpy NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python.
packaging Core utilities for Python packages.
palettable Color palettes for Python.
pandas Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series,and statistics.
Pillow Pillow is the 'friendly PIL fork' by Alex Clark and Contributors. PIL is the Python Imaging Library by Fredrik Lundh and Contributors.
pybtex A BibTeX-compatible bibliography processor in Python.
PyDispatcher Multi-producer-multi-consumer signal dispatching mechanism.
pyFFTW A pythonic wrapper around FFTW, the FFT library, presenting a unified interface for all the supported transforms.
pymatgen Python Materials Genomics is a robust materials analysis code that defines core object representations for structures and molecules with support for many electronic structure codes. It is currently the core analysis code powering the Materials Project (https://www.materialsproject.org).
pyparsing The pyparsing module provides a library of classes that client code uses to construct the grammar directly in Python code.
PyQt5 PyQt5 is a set of Python bindings for v5 of the Qt application framework from The Qt Company.
python-dateutil Useful extensions to the standard Python datetime features.
pytz pytz brings the Olson tz database into Python. This library allows accurate and cross platform timezone calculations using Python 2.4 or higher.
PyWavelets PyWavelets, wavelet transform module.
pyzmq Python bindings for 0MQ.
requests Python HTTP for Humans.
ruamel.yaml ruamel.yaml is a YAML parser/emitter that supports roundtrip preservation of comments, seq/map flow style, and map key order
Rucio Python 2 and 3 compatibility library.
scikit-image Scikit-learn integrates machine learning algorithms in the tightly-knit scientific Python world, building upon numpy, scipy, and matplotlib. As a machine-learning module, it provides versatile tools for data mining and analysis in any field of science and engineering. It strives to be simple and efficient, accessible to everybody, and reusable in various contexts.
scipy SciPy (pronounced 'Sigh Pie') is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It includes modules for statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, signal and image processing, ODE solvers, and more.
SCons Python 2 and 3 compatibility library.
scoop SCOOP (Scalable COncurrent Operations in Python) is a distributed task module allowing concurrent parallel programming on various environments, from heterogeneous grids to supercomputers.
seaborn Seaborn: statistical data visualization
SIP SIP is a tool that makes it very easy to create Python bindings for C and C++ libraries.
six Python 2 and 3 compatibility library.
spglib-python Spglib for Python. Spglib is a library for finding and handling crystal symmetries written in C.
sympy Computer algebra system (CAS) in Python
tabulate Pretty-print tabular data.
toolz List processing tools and functional utilities.
urllib3 HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more.
wheel A built-package format for Python.
System¶
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.
libgcrypt Libgpg-error is a small library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components.
libgpg-error Libgpg-error is a small library that defines common error values for all GnuPG components.
libpciaccess Generic PCI access library.
OpenPGM OpenPGM is an open source implementation of the Pragmatic General Multicast (PGM) specification in RFC 3208 available at www.ietf.org. PGM is a reliable and scalable multicast protocol that enables receivers to detect loss, request retransmission of lost data, or notify an application of unrecoverable loss. PGM is a receiver-reliable protocol, which means the receiver is responsible for ensuring all data is received, absolving the sender of reception responsibility.
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¶
foss GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, including OpenMPI for MPI support, OpenBLAS (BLAS and LAPACK support), FFTW and ScaLAPACK.
fosscuda GCC based compiler toolchain with CUDA support, and including OpenMPI for MPI support, OpenBLAS (BLAS and LAPACK support), FFTW and ScaLAPACK.
gcccuda GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, along with CUDA toolkit.
gimkl GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, next to Intel MPI and Intel MKL (BLAS, (Sca)LAPACK, FFTW).
gimpi GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, next to Intel MPI.
GNU Compiler-only toolchain with GCC and binutils.
gompi GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain, including OpenMPI for MPI support.
gompic GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) based compiler toolchain along with CUDA toolkit, including OpenMPI for MPI support with CUDA features enabled.
iccifort Intel C, C++ and Fortran compilers
iimpi Intel C/C++ and Fortran compilers, alongside Intel MPI.
intel Compiler toolchain including Intel compilers, Intel MPI and Intel Math Kernel Library (MKL).
iomkl Intel Cluster Toolchain Compiler Edition provides Intel C/C++ and Fortran compilers, Intel MKL & OpenMPI.
iompi Intel C/C++ and Fortran compilers, alongside Open MPI.
Py Python 3.6 toolchain
ANSYS ANSYS simulation software enables organizations to confidently predict how their products will operate in the real world. We believe that every product is a promise of something greater.
APR Apache Portable Runtime (APR) libraries.
APR-util Apache Portable Runtime (APR) util libraries.
awscli Universal Command Line Environment for AWS
Bash Bash is an sh-compatible command language interpreter that executes commands read from the standard input or from a file. Bash also incorporates useful features from the Korn and C shells (ksh and csh).
BeoPEST BeoPEST is a special version of John Doherty's PEST adapted for Beowulf clusters. BeoPEST is identical in operation to Parallel PEST, except that it instead of a master and slaves that communicate through the file system, BeoPEST uses a master and smart slaves that communicate via TCP/IP or MPI. BeoPEST also uses smart slaves which offloads much of the effort to the slaves which is important for BeoPEST to scale to hundreds or thousands of slaves. More detail is provided in the BeoPEST Documentation.
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.
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.
DMTCP DMTCP (Distributed MultiThreaded Checkpointing) transparently checkpoints a single-host or distributed computation in user-space -- with no modifications to user code or to the O/S.
dos2unix dos2unix includes utilities to convert text files with DOS or MAC line breaks to Unix line breaks and vice versa. It also includes conversion of UTF-16 to UTF-8.
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.
ed GNU ed is a line-oriented text editor.
elmer Elmer - Open Source Finite Element Software for Multiphysical Problems.
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)
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
Ghostscript Ghostscript is a versatile processor for PostScript data with the ability to render PostScript to different targets. It used to be part of the cups printing stack, but is no longer used for that.
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.
GLPK The GLPK (GNU Linear Programming Kit) package is intended for solving large-scale linear programming (LP), mixed integer programming (MIP), and other related problems. It is a set of routines written in ANSI C and organized in the form of a callable library.
gperftools gperftools are for use by developers so that they can create more robust applications. Especially of use to those developing multi-threaded applications in C++ with templates. Includes TCMalloc, heap-checker, heap-profiler and cpu-profiler.
grace Grace 5.1.23 is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for the X Window System and M*tif..
Graph500 Reference code of the Graph500 benchmark.
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.
Inspector Intel Inspector XE is an easy to use memory error checker and thread checker for serial and parallel applications
inspector_xe Old module, description not available.
intelpcm Old module, description not available.
ipm Old module, description not available.
IPython IPython provides a rich architecture for interactive computing with: Powerful interactive shells (terminal and Qt-based). A browser-based notebook with support for code, text, mathematical expressions, inline plots and other rich media. Support for interactive data visualization and use of GUI toolkits. Flexible, embeddable interpreters to load into your own projects. Easy to use, high performance tools for parallel computing.
itac Old module, description not available.
JOE JOE is a full featured terminal-based screen editor which is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL)
jupyter Jupyter system, including the notebook, qtconsole, and the IPython kernel.
likwid Old module, description not available.
Lmod Lmod is a Lua based module system. Modules allow for dynamic modification of a user's environment under Unix systems. See www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/lmod for a complete description. Lmod is a new implementation that easily handles the MODULEPATH Hierarchical problem. It is drop-in replacement for TCL/C modules and reads TCL modulefiles directly.
memoryscape Old module, description not available.
mercurial Old module, description not available.
Meson Meson is a cross-platform build system designed to be both as fast and as user friendly as possible.
MIKE Old module, description not available.
mono Old module, description not available.
moreutils Moreutils is a growing collection of the unix tools that nobody thought to write long ago when unix was young.
mpi.net Old module, description not available.
nano Small and friendly text editor
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.
opari2 Old module, description not available.
openssh-x509 Old module, description not available.
oscar-modules Old module, description not available.
otf2 Old module, description not available.
papi Old module, description not available.
parallel Old module, description not available.
PatchELF PatchELF is a small utility to modify the dynamic linker and RPATH of ELF executables.
pigz pigz, which stands for parallel implementation of gzip, is a fully functional replacement for gzip that exploits multiple processors and multiple cores to the hilt when compressing data. pigz was written by Mark Adler, and uses the zlib and pthread libraries.
QEMU QEMU is a generic and open source machine emulator and virtualizer.
R Old module, description not available.
racket Old module, description not available.
relion Old module, description not available.
RStudio RStudio is a set of integrated tools designed to help you be more productive with R. It includes a console, syntax-highlighting editor that supports direct code execution, as well as tools for plotting, history, debugging and workspace management.
ruby Old module, description not available.
scite Old module, description not available.
SDE Intel Software Development Emulator is a pintool that enables the development of applications using instruction set extensions that are not currently implemented in hardware.
Serf The serf library is a high performance C-based HTTP client library built upon the Apache Portable Runtime (APR) library
Singularity Singularity is an open source container platform designed to be simple, fast, and secure. Singularity is optimized for EPC and HPC workloads, allowing untrusted users to run untrusted containers in a trusted way.
Subversion Subversion is an open source version control system.
Szip Szip compression software, providing lossless compression of scientific data
tcl Old module, description not available.
tcsh Tcsh is an enhanced, but completely compatible version of the Berkeley UNIX C shell (csh). It is a command language interpreter usable both as an interactive login shell and a shell script command processor. It includes a command-line editor, programmable word completion, spelling correction, a history mechanism, job control and a C-like syntax.
tk Old module, description not available.
tmux Old module, description not available.
totalview Old module, description not available.
turbovnc Old module, description not available.
util-linux Set of Linux utilities
valgrind Old module, description not available.
vampir Old module, description not available.
VDE2 VDE is an ethernet compliant virtual network that can be spawned over a set of physical computer over the Internet. VDE is part of virtualsquare project.
virtualgl Old module, description not available.
VirtualGL VirtualGL is an open source toolkit that gives any Unix or Linux remote display software the ability to run OpenGL applications with full 3D hardware acceleration.
VSCode Visual Studio Code is a distribution of the Code - OSS repository with Microsoft specific customizations released under a traditional Microsoft product license. Visual Studio Code combines the simplicity of a code editor with what developers need for their core edit-build-debug cycle. It provides comprehensive code editing, navigation, and understanding support along with lightweight debugging, a rich extensibility model, and lightweight integration with existing tools.
VTune Intel VTune Amplifier XE 2016 is the premier performance profiler for C, C++, C#, Fortran, Assembly and Java.
XZ xz: XZ utilities
Virtualization¶
qemu Old module, description not available.
vde2 Old module, description not available.
wine Old module, description not available.
Vis¶
at-spi2-atk AT-SPI 2 toolkit bridge
at-spi2-core Assistive Technology Service Provider Interface.
ATK ATK provides the set of accessibility interfaces that are implemented by other toolkits and applications. Using the ATK interfaces, accessibility tools have full access to view and control running applications.
cairo Cairo is a 2D graphics library with support for multiple output devices. Currently supported output targets include the X Window System (via both Xlib and XCB), Quartz, Win32, image buffers, PostScript, PDF, and SVG file output. Experimental backends include OpenGL, BeOS, OS/2, and DirectFB
ffmpeg A complete, cross-platform solution to record, convert and stream audio and video.
fixesproto X.org FixesProto protocol headers.
FLTK FLTK is a cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit for UNIX/Linux (X11), Microsoft Windows, and MacOS X. FLTK provides modern GUI functionality without the bloat and supports 3D graphics via OpenGL and its built-in GLUT emulation.
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.
Gdk-Pixbuf The Gdk Pixbuf is a toolkit for image loading and pixel buffer manipulation. It is used by GTK+ 2 and GTK+ 3 to load and manipulate images. In the past it was distributed as part of GTK+ 2 but it was split off into a separate package in preparation for the change to GTK+ 3.
GL2PS GL2PS: an OpenGL to PostScript printing library
GLib GLib is one of the base libraries of the GTK+ project
gnuplot Old module, description not available.
grace Grace is a WYSIWYG 2D plotting tool for X Windows System and Motif.
GraphicsMagick GraphicsMagick is the swiss army knife of image processing.
GST-plugins-base GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
GStreamer GStreamer is a library for constructing graphs of media-handling components. The applications it supports range from simple Ogg/Vorbis playback, audio/video streaming to complex audio (mixing) and video (non-linear editing) processing.
GTK+ The GTK+ 2 package contains libraries used for creating graphical user interfaces for applications.
HarfBuzz HarfBuzz is an OpenType text shaping engine.
inputproto X.org InputProto protocol headers.
JasPer The JasPer Project is an open-source initiative to provide a free software-based reference implementation of the codec specified in the JPEG-2000 Part-1 standard.
kbproto X.org KBProto protocol headers.
libGLU Old module, description not available.
libICE X Inter-Client Exchange library for freedesktop.org
libX11 X11 client-side library
libXau The libXau package contains a library implementing the X11 Authorization Protocol. This is useful for restricting client access to the display.
libXdmcp The libXdmcp package contains a library implementing the X Display Manager Control Protocol. This is useful for allowing clients to interact with the X Display Manager.
libXext Common X Extensions library
libXfixes X Fixes extension library
libXfont X font libary
libXinerama Old module, description not available.
libXrender X11 client-side library
libXt libXt provides the X Toolkit Intrinsics, an abstract widget library upon which other toolkits are based. Xt is the basis for many toolkits, including the Athena widgets (Xaw), and LessTif (a Motif implementation).
Mesa Old module, description not available.
motif Motif refers to both a graphical user interface (GUI) specification and the widget toolkit for building applications that follow that specification under the X Window System on Unix and other POSIX-compliant systems. It was the standard toolkit for the Common Desktop Environment and thus for Unix.
OpenCV OpenCV (Open Source Computer Vision Library) is an open source computer vision and machine learning software library. OpenCV was built to provide a common infrastructure for computer vision applications and to accelerate the use of machine perception in the commercial products.
opencv-python Theano is a Python library that allows you to define, optimize, and evaluate mathematical expressions involving multi-dimensional arrays efficiently.
OSPRay A Ray Tracing Based Rendering Engine for High-Fidelity Visualization
Pango Pango is a library for laying out and rendering of text, with an emphasis on internationalization. Pango can be used anywhere that text layout is needed, though most of the work on Pango so far has been done in the context of the GTK+ widget toolkit. Pango forms the core of text and font handling for GTK+-2.x.
ParaView ParaView is a scientific parallel visualizer.
pixman Pixman is a low-level software library for pixel manipulation, providing features such as image compositing and trapezoid rasterization. Important users of pixman are the cairo graphics library and the X server.
PyQt PyQt is a set of Python v2 and v3 bindings for Digia's Qt application framework.
seekpath SeeK-path is a python module to obtain and visualize band paths in the Brillouin zone of crystal structures. The definition of k-point labels follows crystallographic convention, as defined and discussed in the HPKOT paper. Moreover, the Bravais lattice is detected properly using the spacegroup symmetry. Also the suggested band path provided in the HPKOT paper is returned. Systems without time-reversal and inversion-symmetry are also properly taken into account.
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.
VTK The Visualization Toolkit (VTK) is an open-source, freely available software system for 3D computer graphics, image processing and visualization. VTK consists of a C++ class library and several interpreted interface layers including Tcl/Tk, Java, and Python. VTK supports a wide variety of visualization algorithms including: scalar, vector, tensor, texture, and volumetric methods; and advanced modeling techniques such as: implicit modeling, polygon reduction, mesh smoothing, cutting, contouring, and Delaunay triangulation.
wxPython wxPython is a GUI toolkit for the Python programming language. It allows Python programmers to create programs with a robust, highly functional graphical user interface, simply and easily. It is implemented as a Python extension module (native code) that wraps the popular wxWidgets cross platform GUI library, which is written in C++.
wxWidgets wxWidgets is a C++ library that lets developers create applications for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux and other platforms with a single code base. It has popular language bindings for Python, Perl, Ruby and many other languages, and unlike other cross-platform toolkits, wxWidgets gives applications a truly native look and feel because it uses the platform's native API rather than emulating the GUI.
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.
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A report by the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) rubbishing the idea that offshore financial centres were "hotbeds of tax evasion" was paid for by the Jersey financial services sector.
Jersey Finance, which represents banks, law firms and accountants in the Channel Islands crown dependency, gave an undisclosed sum to support the publication. It claimed tax havens boosted the wider economy and that they did not diminish tax revenues in other countries. It also called for their status to be protected.
The IEA, which faces a Charity Commission investigation into its political independence and charitable status, did not disclose the support in what it billed as an IEA discussion paper.
The IEA's director, Mark Littlewood, told an undercover investigator for Greenpeace how the report, published in June, would be used to "frame every debate and discussion we go to, about why we shouldn't be shutting down Jersey and Guernsey as offshore centres".
The paper was written by Diego Zuluaga, an economist at the rightwing Cato Institute in Washington DC. He said "an ominous alliance of revenue-greedy politicians, ideological campaigners and rent-seekers ... aim to dismantle the liberal financial order … eliminate tax competition and constrain the movement of capital in order to bring it under their control".
He argued against undermining the existence of offshore financial centres and claimed that reducing tax avoidance – "a legitimate activity among rational people" – would reduce productive investment.
The financial services industry in neighbouring Guernsey, another tax haven, funded a separate report about financial services regulation and hosted its author, Shanker Singham, for an event at a hotel in St Peter Port, which billed him as "the Brexiters' brain".
This was published as an IEA paper, but had been written when Singham was working at the Legatum Institute, a rival free-market thinktank. Legatum confirmed it was paid by Guernsey to produce the report and host the event.
Jersey and Guernsey have been facing pressure from Westminster to reveal the beneficial owners of companies registered in their territories. It follows international tax scandals emanating from offshore havens such as Panama and Luxembourg. British overseas territories, including the British Virgin Islands and the Cayman Islands, will have to implement public registers by 2020 and MPs have said they could face legislation if they do not act.
Jersey alone is home to wealth worth more than £1.3tn in trusts, corporate structures and funds, according to a previous report published by Jersey Finance. About 22% of the country's jobs were – as of December 2017 – in the financial and legal sector according to government figures.
A spokesman for Jersey Finance confirmed it had paid the IEA and said it believed "it is vital that this kind of research exists to clarify the significant and positive role international finance centres like Jersey play in the modern global economy". It said it checked the paper for factual accuracy where Jersey was referenced, but did not have any editing rights.
The donations emerged after the Guardian reported that the IEA accepted a £8,000 donation from the casino industry after it published a paper arguing for more casinos to be allowed in Britain's towns and cities. Again the research paper did not disclose the casinos had any role, but they fact-checked the report and the Guardian understands senior casino industry figures met the author before publication.
The rightwing thinktank was established as an educational charity and has not routinely disclosed its donors, but it was known to have been also funded by the oil company BP, tobacco and alcohol companies.
The IEA also faces an investigation by the government's lobbying watchdog, Alison White, to determine whether it should be registered as a lobbyist and be obliged to disclose its financial donors.
Greenpeace's undercover investigation this week revealed how the IEA offered potential donors the ability to shape "substantial content" in its research reports. It arranged for two US donors with interests in US farming who had pledged £35,000 to meet the MP Steve Baker, then Brexit minister, and had promised introductions to an investigator posing as a potential donor to other ministers.
A spokesperson for Baker said any suggestion he would attend meetings because "access" to him was being sold was entirely false.


Cupping is a traditional therapy that has been used since ancient times. The suction of the skin and the resulting vacuum in the cupping glass creates a vacuum which stimulates the acupuncture points of the body surface. A cupping massage can be used to stimulate blood flow and metabolism, to dissipate blood flow, to prevent cellulite and to tighten the connective tissue. The glasses are made of glass, so they can be easily cleaned and disinfected.
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