Attention

WARNING: From 8am on 30th June until 5pm on 4th July 2025, there will be no access to the Stanage HPC cluster.

We will try to minimise this downtime and it is possible that Stanage will return to service before 4th July. We will notify you by email when Stanage is back online and available for job submission.

bzip2

bzip2 is a freely available, patent free, high-quality data compressor. It typically compresses files to within 10% to 15% of the best available techniques (the PPM family of statistical compressors), whilst being around twice as fast at compression and six times faster at decompression.

Note

This is an autogenerated page, more detail including examples may be available for this package. Please see the first section of Software on Stanage

After connecting to Stanage (see Establishing a SSH connection), start an interactive session with the following command:

srun --pty bash -i

A version of bzip2 can then be made available with one of the following:

module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-12.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-12.2.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-11.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-11.2.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-10.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-10.2.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-9.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.8-GCCcore-8.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.6-foss-2022b
module load bzip2/1.0.6-GCCcore-9.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.6-GCCcore-7.3.0
module load bzip2/1.0.6-GCCcore-6.4.0

Notes

bzip2 was installed using Easybuild, build details can be found in $EBROOTBZIP2/easybuild with a given module loaded.

Direct dependencies for latest version of bzip2