I see, so if I understand it correctly I have to make sure that there is a copy of the library, environments and modules on every computational node?
I am wondering if I can get around it by using nfs. On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 11:42, Richard <e...@trick-1.net> wrote: > For what it’s worth I use an easy8 licensed bright cluster (now part of > NVidia) and I continually find I need to make sure the module packages, > environment variables etc are installed/set in the images that are deployed > to the nodes > > Bright supports slurm, k8, jupyter and a lot more > > Richard > > Sent from my iPhone > > > On 28 Jun 2022, at 19:32, leo camilo <lhcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > # Background > > > > So, I am building this small beowulf cluster for my department. I have > it running on ubuntu servers, a front node and at the moment 7 x 16 core > nodes. I have installed SLURM as the scheduler and I have been > procrastinating to setup environment modules. > > > > In any case, I ran in this particular scenario where I was trying to > schedule a few jobs in slurm, but for some reason slurm would not find this > library (libgsl). But it was in fact installed in the frontnode, I checked > the path with ldd and I even exported the LD_LIBRARY_PATH . > > > > Oddly, if I ran the application directly in the frontnode, it would work > fine., > > > > Though it occured to me that the computational nodes might not have this > library and surely once I installed this library in the nodes the problem > went away. > > > > # Question: > > > > So here is the question, is there a way to cache the frontnode's > libraries and environment onto the computational nodes when a slurm job is > created? > > > > Will environment modules do that? If so, how? > > > > Thanks in advance, > > > > Cheers > > _______________________________________________ > > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > https://beowulf.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/beowulf > >
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