Building and Installing Software

CSCS provides commonly used software and tools on Alps, however many use cases will require first installing software on a system before you can start working. Modern HPC applications and software stacks are often very complicated, and there is no one-size-fits-all method for building and installing them.

• Programming Environments

  Programming environments are your first option if you want to install an application (and its dependencies) from source, or set up a Python/Julia environment.

  CSCS provides the following uenv:

  prgenv-gnu

  prgenv-nvfortran

  linalg

  julia

  And containers are used to deploy:

  Cray Programming Environment

• Packaging and Deployment

  How to create containers or uenv, and how to share them with your colleagues and community.

  build containers with podman

  use the uenv build service

• Software Building Guides

  How to create containers or uenv, and how to share them with your colleagues and community.

  building software using uenv

  Coming soon: how to install Python software stacks.