ATLAS is a linear algebra library installed on the clusters, which is now available as a module on layout.

A detailed installation guide could be found at Atlas Install. To see how to make it a module, check the Sysadmin:Environment Modules page.

A brief installation walkthrough

Download the tarball with: wget https://fossies.org/linux/misc/atlas3.11.41.tar.bz2/ (Get the newest version of this! or you could find a tarball under /mounts/layout/software/atlas>
Download the clapack tarball(A library required by atlas): wget http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lapack-3.8.0.tar.gz
Go to the basement. Reboot the machine where you are installing torque. Disable CPU throttling in the BIOS interface.(Disable Power Management of the CPU)
unzip the tarball: bunzip2 -c atlas3.11.41.tar.bz2 | tar xfm -
cd ATLAS
mkdir build &&cd build
Run configure script:../configure --shared --prefix=/mounts/layout/software/atlas --with-netlib-lapack tarfile=/mounts/layout/software/atlas/lapack-3.8.0.tar.gz
make
make check
make ptcheck
make time (optional)
make install
Edit the modulefiles

Notice

After make install, there is an error message saying that could not find dll file. Ignore this message since dll is not on linux we use.