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open source utilities

Participating centers will provide a core set of open source utilities on all allocated HPC systems and non-storage user-accessible support servers. These will be available from the users default path or available through a module. Although some of these utilities may be available as part of the Computational Science Environment (CSE), each center will provide them as an independent installation.

Development and Build

autoconf (GNU)	Produces shell scripts to automatically configure software source code packages.
automake (GNU)	Generates portable makefiles for use with the make command.
Bison (GNU)	Converts a grammar description into a C program to parse that grammar.
Boost C++	Set of libraries that extend the functionality of C++ programming language.
CMake	Cross-platform build and test environment.

Source Repository / Revision Control

cvs (GNU)	Provides a version control system for managing source files and documents.
subversion	Provides a version control system for managing source files, and documents. This includes both the svn and svnadmin commands. The svnadmin command supports creating new, modifying and monitoring source repositories.
git	Provides a distributed version control system for managing source files and documents. The git tools should be configured to support the bridging of git and svn.

Information on how to use the subversion commands for source code repositories on HPCMP systems is provided in the BC Common Capability Source Code Repositories.

Archive and Compression

tar (GNU)	Creates tar archives, as well as providing various other kinds of manipulation.
gzip, gunzip (GNU)	Data compression/extraction utilities
bzip2, bunzip2	Block-sorting data compression/extraction utilities. Command line options are deliberately similar to those of gzip.

Libraries for Data Models and Formats

HDF5	HDF5 is a data model, library, and file format for storing and managing data. It supports an unlimited variety of datatypes, and is designed for flexible and efficient I/O and for high volume and complex data.
NetCDF	NetCDF is a set of software libraries and self-describing, machine-independent data formats that support the creation, access, and sharing of array-oriented scientific data.
XDMF	(eXtensible Data Model and Format) is a library providing a standard way to access data produced by HPC codes. ParaView, VisIt and EnSight visualization programs are able to read XDMF.

Other software utilities can be incorporated into this core set with Baseline Configuration team consensus.