Table 2

Additional software and libraries used by HAMSTER.

Software

Minimum Version

Purpose

System

Required?


Boost library [32]

1.39.0

Used extensively

Both

Yes

Graphviz (neato) [25]

2.20.2

MST layout and generation

layout-mst

No

Open MPI [26]

1.2.7

Parallel processing of MST layout

layout-mst

No


The software and libraries that are used by HAMSTER, as well as their version and purpose. Only the first is required to compile the software; the others are optional. Graphviz is required to generate images while Open MPI improves the execution time of layout-mst by distributing work across processors.

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