Applications and Language

ITS Research provides a wide range of commercial and open-source applications on the HPC cluster.

Popular applications include:

• Gaussian - QMUL has licences for the Gaussian computational chemistry application, allowing QMUL researchers to use it locally on their computers and the HPC cluster;
• MATLAB - This is an environment for numerical computation used in science and engineering, and QMUL has a site licence allowing QMUL researchers to use it locally on their computers and the HPC cluster;
• Stata - This is a statistics package used by a broad range of researchers. Licences for Stata/MP16 are available for 11 concurrent users on the QMUL Apocrita HPC cluster;
• R - is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics;
• TensorFlow - is an open-source library for machine learning, often utilising GPUs to accelerate performance;
• Python - is an interpreted high-level programming language for general-purpose programming;
• Ansys - Engineering application is licensed for 128 cores on Apocrita;
• Anaconda - is a distribution of the Python and R programming languages for data science and machine learning applications. It includes more than 250 popular data-science package;