Materials repository & Software stack

The lab material for this course is available on the following GitHub repository.

This course expects students to use a Linux machine. If you are running another operating systems, please borrow a Cartable Numerique by the administration.

Most of the software used throught in this course can be easily installed via your Linux distribution package manager (e.g. apt on Ubuntu/Debian, dnf on RedHat-like, pacman/paru on Arch-like, etc.), or using the Spack Package Manager.

To load Spack-installed software, use the spack load <PACKAGE> command.

Required software

CMake

Most of this course material relies on CMake for building the code provided in each exercise.

You can get CMake from here. The prefered version for this course is 3.31, the minimum required version is 3.25.

1. Download the binary distribution for Linux:

   Bash
   1	wget https://github.com/Kitware/CMake/releases/download/v3.31.11/cmake-3.31.11-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

2. Install the tarball (in a userspace directory):

   Bash
   1	tar -C $HOME/.local/ --strip-components=1 -xf cmake-3.31.11-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

3. Ensure it works:

   Bash
   1	cmake --version

C/C++ Compilers

MPI

Formatting and style

We expect students to format their code according to a clang-format spec (one is provided at the root of the lab repo). Similarly, CMake files should be formatted using tools such as gersemi.

To improve your C/C++ code, we suggest you to regularly run tools such as clang-tidy, sonar-lint or other code linters that help detect anti-patterns, weird or inefficient coding styles, and suggest ways of writing more idiomatic C/C++.

You should also look into popular and battle-tested code style guidelines:

• C++ Core Guidelines
• Google C++ Style Guide
• Carbon C++ Style Guide
• MISRA C++
• ANSSI C Rules for C language software development