I’d go slightly further, though I do appreciate the Lmod shout-out!: In some
cases, you may not even want the software on the frontend nodes (hear me out
before I retract it).
If it’s a library that requires linking against before it can be used, then you
probably have to have it unless you require users to submit interactive jobs to
some dedicated build nodes to do their compilation. You’ll find that when users
have all their software needs in one place on the frontend nodes, that
sometimes they try to run it there, taking away resources from others. Now, a
quick test run to make sure that their build is correct is probably no big
deal, but some users will run their full-on science experiments (or pre- and
post-processing steps) on the login nodes! We like to encourage those folks to
submit jobs to the compute nodes. You could, but they probably wouldn’t like,
cripple or not install some libraries on the login nodes to prevent this, but
we just watch those systems like a hawk, given that we do want users to be able
to build their programs on the login nodes.
We don’t use EB, but we do collaborate with them to make it and Lmod
compatible. We use something like OpenHPC to push RPMs we build in-house to
manage software on our login and compute nodes. Sometimes, we also just install
a binary package (like an ISV code like ANSYS or MATLAB) into a shared
filesystem (one of our Lustre filesystems, usually) when making our own RPM is
too cumbersome, and then use Lmod to make it available and visible to our
users. There are more strategies for this than you can imagine, so settle on a
few and keep it simple for you!
Best,
Bill.
--
Bill Barth, Ph.D., Director, HPC
bba...@tacc.utexas.edu | Phone: (512) 232-7069
Office: ROC 1.435 | Fax: (512) 475-9445
On 1/17/18, 7:48 AM, "slurm-users on behalf of Vanzo, Davide"
<slurm-users-boun...@lists.schedmd.com on behalf of
davide.va...@vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
Ciao Elisabetta,
I second John's reply.
On our cluster we install software on the shared parallel filesystem with
EasyBuild and use Lmod as a module front-end. Then users will simply load
software in the job's environment by using the module command.
Feel free to ping me directly if you need specific help.
--
Davide Vanzo, PhD
Application Developer
Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE)
Vanderbilt University - Hill Center 201
(615)-875-9137
www.accre.vanderbilt.edu
On 2018-01-17 07:28:31-06:00 slurm-users wrote:
Hi,
let's say I need to execute a python script with slurm. The script require
a particular library installed on the system like numpy.
If the library is not installed to the system, it is necessary to install
it on the master AND the nodes, right? This has to be done on each machine
separately or there's a way to install it one time for all the machine (master
and nodes)?
Elisabetta
