gitea-pages/admin-guide/legacy/software/modules.rst

Modules

The Scientific Computing team provides a number of programs using Modules. The Modules configuration files and the corresponding software are stored on AFS.

To use Modules it is necessary to create a symlink:

ln -snf /afs/psi.ch/sys/psi.x86_64.slp6/ /opt/psi

where x86_64.slp6 describes the architecture and OS of the system the modules should be used on. It is the output of fs sysname. Every session needs to source /opt/psi/config/profile.bash as well.

The available modules can be listed by running:

module avail

Note that the modules are hierarchical, i.e. only the modules that can actually be loaded are listed. Some modules require that other modules are loaded first, e.g. a certain version of gcc, and are listed only after that has been done.

Modules are loaded by running:

module load gcc/4.7.3