E4S Project
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The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) is a community effort to provide open source software packages for developing, deploying and running scientific applications on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms. E4S provides from-source builds and containers of a broad collection of HPC software packages.
E4S exists to accelerate the development, deployment and use of HPC software, lowering the barriers for HPC users. E4S provides containers and turn-key, from-source builds of more than 80 popular HPC products in programming models, such as MPI; development tools such as HPCToolkit, TAU and PAPI; math libraries such as PETSc and Trilinos; and Data and Viz tools such as HDF5 and Paraview.
By using Spack as the meta-build tool and providing containers of pre-built binaries for Docker, Singularity, Shifter and CharlieCloud, E4S enables the flexible use and testing of a large collection of reusable HPC software packages.
E4S packages build on most computer systems, from laptops to supercomputers.
The E4S software distribution is tested regularly on a variety of platforms, from Linux clusters to leadership platforms.
While porting of individual scientific software products is challenging, achieving interoperability between packages is even more difficult. E4S uses a dual-pronged approach for achieving software interoperability: Spack and SDKs.
E4S is open source software published under the MIT License. E4S can be redistributed and modified under the terms of this license. E4S packages each have their own open source license.