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.

• Unsupported software – guides on how to install commonly requested or difficult to install software.

Modern HPC applications and software stacks are often very complicated, and there is no one-size-fits-all method for building and installing them.

• uenv – uenv provide isolated software environments for applications and developers.

• Podman – for building software in containers.

• Python – create a virtual environment using python in a uenv.