⚠️ 2021-11-01: The TIPCC cluster is retired. If you're looking for a modern cluster, please see our new C4 cluster, which is in production since January 11, 2021.

Core System Software

A large number of common Linux software tools are available on the cluster (compute nodes and development nodes) as part of the core setup. Below follows a small excerpt of what tools are available.

Editors: emacs, nano, vim
File transfers: scp, sftp, lftp, rsync
curl, wget
Compression and Archiving: bzip2, gzip, lzma/lzip, rar, zip, xz
cpio, tar
Communication: ssh, telnet
Version Control: git, hg, svn
Text, Documents, and Reports: aspell, ispell, hunspell
doxygen
LaTeX, PDF and Postscript tools
Programming Languages, Compilers, and Tools: make, cmake
gcc / g++ (C, C++, and Fortran)
java, javac
lua
perl
python
System Utilities: top

Note: The installed versions of some of the above core tools are rather outdated. You may find more up-to-date versions in the Software Repositories.