Raven is the new (late 2012) ARCCA cluster. It has 2000 Sandybridge cores with fast interconnect, and an additional 800 cores of Westmere which are set up for serial jobs.

If you have an account, you can log on with:

ssh ravenlogin.arcca.cf.ac.uk

There is a lot of software available. You can see what there is by typing

 module avail

You load a module by typing, e.g.

 module load python/2.6.7

and can see what you currently have loaded with

 module list

There is a bunch of LSC software that you need to have installed (before even thinking about installing your analysis software) so that you can run. It is detailed at this DASWG page. Running through the list of things:

• pkg-config: This is available by default on Raven (as /usr/bin/pkg-config). The installed version is 0.23, which seems to suffice
• gsl: This is available as a module. So run

   module load gsl

  to pick this up. Current version is 1.15, which is more recent than version 1.12 listed on the DASWG page.

• fftw: This 'should' be available as a module, but isn't working yet! I have installed it at /home/spxsf2/opt/lscsoft/.
• libframe: This is LIGO specific software. It is not available as a module, but in the longer term, we should see if we can get it installed. For now, I have installed at /home/spxsf2/opt/lscsoft/.
• metaio: This is LIGO specific software. It is not available as a module, but in the longer term, we should see if we can get it installed. For now, I have installed at /home/spxsf2/opt/lscsoft/.
• git: This is required to check out the LALSuite software stack. It 'should be' available as a module, but isn't working yet.