The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team manages and configures a comprehensive list of software packages for use on the Great Lakes, Armis2, and Lighthouse high performance computing (HPC) clusters to meet the diverse software requirements of academic research.
Users are encouraged to review the HPC software guide and catalog to see what is readily available on the clusters:
Users are welcome to install software into your own home directory, or onto any persistent storage of your own that might be mounted on the system, so long as you are meeting the terms and conditions of use that accompany the software. If you need software that is not currently available on the clusters and need help obtaining or installing the software, contact ARC Support.
Academic Software Licensing Notice
Software on ARC computing resources is licensed only for noncommercial, academic research and instructional purposes only. Noncommercial, academic research generally means that the research is being conducted with the intent to publish the results in a scholarly journal. Research that is commissioned as part of a consultancy and for which any fee is received, that use proprietary data from a commercial entity, or that is conducted as part of a service for which a fee is charged should be considered commercial and is not an approved use of ARC resources. This includes some software that is considered “open source” for academic research but not if there are fees or proprietary data. If you have any doubt whether your work will be considered commercial research, please contact ARC with details of the proposed work.