boost: free, portable C++ source libraries

Contents

  1. Overview of package
  2. Overview of package
    1. General usage
  3. Availability of package by cluster

Overview of package

General information about package
Package: boost
Description: free, portable C++ source libraries
For more information: http://www.boost.org
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License: Unknown

General usage information

These are the boost c++ libraries. Most of the libraries are header-only, and can be accessed with just an -I\$BOOST_INCDIR argument in your compilation. These are independent of compiler or MPI versions.

A small fraction of the libraries require loading functions from static or shared libraries. For these you will also need an -L\$BOOST_LIBDIR argument when linking. In this case you will always want a matching compiler. In addition, if using the MPI related libraries, you will want to use matching MPI modules.

The following environmental variables have been defined:

  • \$BOOST_ROOT has been set to the root of the boost installation
  • \$BOOST_LIBDIR points to the directory containing the libraries
  • \$BOOST_INCDIR points to the directory containing the header files

You will probably wish to use these by adding the following flags to your compilation command (e.g. to CFLAGS in your Makefile):

  • -I\$BOOST_INCDIR
and the following flags to your link command (e.g. LDFLAGS in your Makefile):
  • -L\$BOOST_LIBDIR -Wl,-rpath,\$BOOST_LIBDIR

All compiled libraries are multithread

Available versions of the package boost, by cluster

This section lists the available versions of the package booston the different clusters.

Available versions of boost on the Deepthought2 cluster (RHEL8)

Available versions of boost on the Deepthought2 cluster (RHEL8)
Version Module tags CPU optimized for GPU ready?
1.72.0 boost/1.72.0 ivybridge N
1.69.0 boost/1.69.0 x86_64 N

Available versions of boost on the Juggernaut cluster

Available versions of boost on the Juggernaut cluster
Version Module tags CPU optimized for GPU ready?
1.72.0 boost/1.72.0 broadwell N