info specific to hood.math

Administration

• hood.math is administered by MFCF
• no root or sudo access for users
• home directories on hood are served by NFS to winisk, kazan, and thelon

Hardware

• SuperMicro 8047R-7JRFT
• Four Intel Xeon E5-4640 8-core 2.4 GHz CPUs (Sandy Bridge microarchitecture)
• 256 GiB RAM

Software

• Hood currently runs CentOS 6.7
• Intel Parallel Studio XE 2015 development suite (icc, ifort, MKL, etc.)
• GCC 4.4.7 installed by default
• GCC 4.7.2 is also available, to use it, do one of the following:

1. Use SCL (Software Collection) to start a subshell with special environment, e.g.

scl enable devtoolset-1.1 bash

or if you prefer a CSH shell

scl enable devtoolset-1.1 csh

2. Set environment variables to refer to the optional versions, e.g.

export CC=/opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin/gcc

3. Set your $PATH to find the optional commands first, e.g.

export PATH=`showpath /opt/centos/devtoolset-1.1/root/usr/bin current`