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The preinstalled software on our clusters can be searched

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How to find preinstalled software

Most of the preinstalled software is provided via software environment modules.

Most easily, you can search for available software on Noctua by

  • using the command find_module on the Noctua, e.g. find_module Cp2k. (The argument is not case-sensitive.)

  • or search using the search functionality of these documentation pages

    Live Search
    spaceKeyPC2DOK

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I can’t find the software

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that I need

In this case, you have several options:

  • We could can install it for you. Please don’t hesitate to contact pc2-support@uni-paderborn.de.

  • If it is a Pyhton Python or Julia and Julia Packagespackage you likely can install it via the respective package managers.

  • You could use a software container solution like Singularity to have full control over you software environment.

  • Or As a last resort, you can also manually install the software in your project directory, for example by setting the a prefix (e.g. ./configure --prefix=$PC2PFS/hpc-prf-lsdft/prefix) which will install the software with make install to this directory instead of /usr/bin or /usr/local/bin (where you don’t have write permissions).

We Note that we are happy to support you with any questions or issue that come up.

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