Tools

HPC3 software and programming languages

Wharton’s HPC3 environment offers a suite of research software and programming environments:

  • GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and Intel Compilers:  includes front end and compilers for programming such languages as C, C++ and Java.
  • Julia: a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments.
  • Matlab: a high‐level language and interactive environment that performs computationally intensive tasks and data visualization.
  • Mathematica: a symbolic and numerical mathematics system.
  • MySQL:  a popular open source database software.
  • Python: an interpreted, object-oriented, high-level programming language with dynamic semantics.
  • R: a highly extensible and open source language and environment for statistical computing and graphics.
  • SAS: a widely used statistical and data analysis system.
  • Stata:  an integrated statistical package for data analysis, data management, and graphic capabilities.
  • Stat/Transfer:  converts data formats to and from common statistical, spreadsheet, and database programs.