bzip2

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Description

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.

Homepage

https://sourceware.org/bzip2/

Available Versions on RCAC Clusters

Cluster	Versions
ANVIL	1.0.8
NEGISHI	1.0.8

Module

You can load the module by:

module load bzip2

Note for using bzip2

Run module spider bzip2 beforehand to check if this version requires any prerequisite modules.