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This category contains Development Tools such as editors, compilers, debuggers, etc., as well as other tools such as visualization software. In many cases there is no need to do a separate set-up for this software, as it is usually installed in systems directories. If a set-up is required, it is usually done with the usepackage facility, i.e. through the use command.

Editors

• Emacs

Powerful editing written originally by Richard Stallman and is common to most Unix systems.

• nedit

Multi-purpose text editor for the X Window System with a standard, easy to use, graphical user interface.

• pico

Text editor for Unix and Unix-based computer systems. Very simple.

• vi

Text editor originally written by Bill Joy in 1976. Comes standard with Unix environments. Not graphically driven.

Programming Environments, Compilers

• Intel C/C++ compiler (icc)

Intel C/C++ compiler for Linux/Intel computers. Auto-parallelization and OpenMP compiler directives.

• Studio Fortran (ifort) compiler

Intel Fortran compiler for Linux/Intel computers. Auto-parallelization and OpenMP compiler directives.

• Gnu C/C++ compiler (gcc, g++)

Gnu C/C++ compiler for Linux. Understands OpenMP compiler directives.

• Gnu Fortran (gfortran) compiler

Gnu Fortran compiler for Linux/Intel computers. Understands OpenMP compiler directives.

• Python Programming Language Interpreter/Compiler
  • NumPy Fundamental Package for scientifc computing with Python
  • SciPy Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering

Easy to learn programming language with a clean syntax (and lots of packages).

Debuggers and profilers

• dbx

Command-line debugger used with native Solaris/Sparc compilers.

• dbxtool

Graphical User Interface for dbx debugger. Makes using dbx much easier. Accessible from Studio Development Suite.

• collect/analyzer

The combination of the "collect" command with the analyzer GUI-driven profiler can be used to optimize code performance.

• gdb

Standard tool for debugging C code compiled with gcc.

• The HPCVL Working Template (HWT)

Visualization

• ParaView

Open-source, multi-platform data analysis and visualization application. Works both interactively and in batch mode.

• gnuplot

Open-source, multi-platform graphics software.