# Install cubelib with Homebrew

Performance report explorer for Scalasca and Score-P. Version 4.9.1 via Homebrew; verified 2026-06-23.

## Install

```sh
sudo av install brew:cubelib
```

Additional install commands:

### macOS

- Homebrew (100%):

```sh
brew install cubelib
```

  Evidence: local Homebrew formula metadata

## Package facts

- **Package key:** brew:cubelib
- **Package manager:** Homebrew
- **Package manager page:** <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/cubelib>
- **Version:** 4.9.1
- **Source summary:** Performance report explorer for Scalasca and Score-P
- **Homepage:** <https://scalasca.org/software/cube-4.x/download.html>
- **Upstream docs:** <https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.9/docs/derived/html/reference.html>
- **License:** BSD-3-Clause
- **Source archive:** <https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.9/dist/cubelib-4.9.1.tar.gz>
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-23T00:28:31+09:00
- **Generated:** 2026-07-08T18:08:21+00:00

## Executables

- cube3to4 (cli)
- cube4to3 (cli)
- cube_calltree (cli)
- cube_canonize (cli)
- cube_clean (cli)
- cube_cmp (cli)
- cube_commoncalltree (cli)
- cube_cut (cli)
- cube_derive (cli)
- cube_diff (cli)
- cube_dump (cli)
- cube_exclusify (cli)
- cube_inclusify (cli)
- cube_info (cli)
- cube_is_empty (cli)
- cube_mean (cli)
- cube_merge (cli)
- cube_nodeview (cli)
- cube_part (cli)
- cube_pop_metrics (cli)
- cube_rank (cli)
- cube_regioninfo (cli)
- cube_remap2 (cli)
- cube_sanity (cli)
- cube_server (cli)
- cube_stat (cli)
- cube_test (cli)
- cube_topoassist (cli)
- cubelib-config (cli)
- tau2cube (cli)
- cube3to4 (alias)
- cube4to3 (alias)
- cube_calltree (alias)
- cube_canonize (alias)
- cube_clean (alias)
- cube_cmp (alias)
- cube_commoncalltree (alias)
- cube_cut (alias)
- cube_derive (alias)
- cube_diff (alias)
- cube_dump (alias)
- cube_exclusify (alias)
- cube_inclusify (alias)
- cube_info (alias)
- cube_is_empty (alias)
- cube_mean (alias)
- cube_merge (alias)
- cube_nodeview (alias)
- cube_part (alias)
- cube_pop_metrics (alias)
- cube_rank (alias)
- cube_regioninfo (alias)
- cube_remap2 (alias)
- cube_sanity (alias)
- cube_server (alias)
- cube_stat (alias)
- cube_test (alias)
- cube_topoassist (alias)
- cubelib-config (alias)
- tau2cube (alias)

## Build dependencies

- pkgconf

## Install behavior

- Post-install hook: not defined
- Bottle: available on arm64_linux, arm64_sequoia, arm64_sonoma, arm64_tahoe, sonoma, x86_64_linux

## Freshness

- Page generated: 2026-07-08
- Package-manager version: 4.9.1
- Package-manager updated: 2026-06-23
- Local data: ok
- Upstream repository: https://scalasca.org/software/cube-4.x/download.html
- info: Release/tag comparison is only available for GitHub repositories.
## Project history and usage

CubeLib is the C++ library component of Cube 4.x, the Scalasca/Score-P performance report explorer and data-format tooling used in high-performance-computing performance analysis.

### Project history

The Scalasca project describes Cube 4.x as a generic tool for displaying a multidimensional performance space with metric, call-path, and system-resource dimensions. The download page states that since Cube 4.4 the software has been split into CubeW, CubeLib, CubeGUI, and jCubeR packages.

### Adoption history

Cube 4.x is documented for files produced by Score-P and Scalasca 2.x, while retaining backward compatibility with Cube 3.x data. That placement makes CubeLib part of the common tooling stack around European HPC performance measurement and analysis.

### How it is used

CubeLib underlies command-line tools for manipulating and inspecting Cube performance reports, including operations such as diff, merge, mean, call-tree conversion, metrics derivation, and report dumping.

### Why package nerds care

The Homebrew cubelib formula exposes a large set of specialized HPC command-line tools from the Cube suite. It is package-manager-significant because upstream distributes Cube as separate component tarballs rather than a single monorepo-style source-control project.

### Timeline

- 1998: Copyright range on the current Cube 4.x page begins for Forschungszentrum Juelich.
- 2012: Cube 4.x paper listed from PARA 2010 proceedings on the official Scalasca page.
- Cube 4.4: Upstream split Cube into CubeW, CubeLib, CubeGUI, and jCubeR packages.
- 2025: CubeLib 4.9.x documentation and packages are current on the official Scalasca release site.

### Related projects

- Scalasca, Score-P, CubeGUI, CubeW, jCubeR, TAU performance tools.

### Sources

- <https://www.scalasca.org/software/cube-4.x/download.html>
- <https://www.scalasca.org/software/cube-4.x/documentation.html>
- <https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.9/docs/tools-guide/html/userguide.html>
- <https://apps.fz-juelich.de/scalasca/releases/cube/4.9/docs/derived/html/reference.html>


## Security Notes

broad file, network, media, or database tool signal.

- **Geiger risk:** blue / medium
- broad file, network, media, or database tool signal

## Source Database Details

- **Source Database:** Homebrew formula API
- **Tap:** homebrew/core
- **Full Name:** cubelib
- **Version Scheme:** 0
- **Revision:** 0
- **Bottle Stable Root URL:** <https://ghcr.io/v2/homebrew/core>
- **Deprecated:** no
- **Disabled:** no
- **Keg Only:** no
- **URL Keys:** stable


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## Combined YAML source

View the package source record on GitHub. [combined/cubelib.yml](https://github.com/automic-vault/db/blob/main/combined/cubelib.yml)


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- curated package history
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- package relationship graph
- cross-ecosystem install command graph
