• Alta-Cyclic is composed of several perl scripts and C programs
• It requires an SGE cluster environment
• All dependencies are open source and are downloadable

The following programs and modules should be installed on each node of the computer cluster (except of gcc and gsl). The programs in 'External Programs' section should be in the user path. The Perl modules can be downloaded from CPAN .

External Programs:

	Name	Tested version	Link	Debian/Ubuntu package
1.	perl	5.8.8
2.	gcc	3.4.6
3.	gzip	1.3.3
4.	sun grid engine (SGE)	6	http://gridengine.sunsource.net/downloads/61/download.html
5.	blat	32	http://www.soe.ucsc.edu/~kent/src/
6.	libSVM-tools		http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/libsvmtools/	libsvm-tools

C libraries:

	Name	Tested version	Link	Debian/Ubuntu package
1.	gsl	32	http://www.gnu.org/software/gsl/	libgsl0-dev

Perl Modules:

	Name	Link	Debian/Ubuntu package
1.	List::MoreUtils
2.	PDL	http://pdl.perl.org	pdl
3.	PDL::Complex	http://pdl.perl.org	pdl
4.	PDL::FFT	http://pdl.perl.org	pdl
5.	Readonly
6.	Getopt::Long	MUST BE VERSION 2.35 or newer

1. Make sure that all programs and modules in the requirment section are installed and accessible from the user path. Notice, these programs should be installed in each node of the cluster.


2. Download Alta-Cyclic package.


3. Untar Alta-Cyclic package and copy it to any folder in your submission node.


4. Go to:
   PATH_TO_ALTA/Cluster/Remote_Scripts/
   and compile SVD.c by:
   gcc $(gsl-config --cflags) SVD.c $(gsl-config --libs) -o svd


5. You are ready to go! (See FAQ for more questions and issues).