Boost

Please note that this application page is referring to the old CentOS software stack which is obsolete and does not work any more with the new Ubuntu setup. You can find an overview on the Ubuntu software stack on this wiki page.

Category

Development, Library

Description

Boost is a set of libraries for the C++ programming language that provide support for tasks and structures such as linear algebra, pseudorandom number generation, multithreading, image processing, regular expressions, and unit testing. It contains over eighty individual libraries.

Available versions (Euler, old software stack)

Legacy versions	Supported versions	New versions
1.55.0, 1.59.0_pyucs4	1.57.0, 1.59.0	1.59.0_py2.7.9, 1.62.0

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

Environment modules (Euler, old software stack)

The boost module is a smart module, which checks for a loaded compiler module and then loads the corresponding Boost version. For the module load command example, we use the standard compiler gcc/4.8.2.

Version	Module load command	Additional modules loaded automatically
1.55.0	module load legacy gcc/4.8.2 boost/1.55.0	python/2.7.6 centos_cruft/6
1.59.0_pyucs4	module load legacy gcc/4.8.2 boost/1.59.0_pyucs4	python/2.7.6_UCS4 centos_cruft/6
1.57.0	module load gcc/4.8.2 boost/1.57.0	python/2.7.6 legacy centos_cruft/6
1.59.0	module load gcc/4.8.2 boost/1.59.0	python/2.7.6 hdf5/1.8.12 legacy centos_cruft/6
1.59.0_py2.7.9	module load new gcc/4.8.2 boost/1.59.0_py2.7.9	python/2.7.9 hdf5/1.8.12 legacy centos_cruft/6
1.62.0	module load new gcc/4.8.2 boost/1.62.0	python/2.7.6 hdf5/1.8.12 legacy centos_cruft/6

Please note that this page refers to installations from the old software stack. There are two software stacks on Euler. Newer versions of software are found in the new software stack.

Notes

The boost module sets environment variables, which contain the path to the library directory and the include directory.

$BOOST_LIBRARYDIR
$BOOST_INCLUDEDIR

These variables can be used to specify the location of the boost libraries and header files, when compiling programs that have boost as dependency.

Links

http://www.boost.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boost_(C%2B%2B_libraries)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkluxKwBU12dyFr54c1Yh2g/featured