Hi, I install all my apps in a shared storage, and change environment variables (path, vars, etc.) with lmod. It's very useful.
Regards. El vie., 11 may. 2018 a las 6:19, Eric F. Alemany (<ealem...@stanford.edu>) escribió: > Hi Lachlan, > > Thank you for sharing your environment. Everyone has their own set of > rules and i appreciate everyone’s input. > It seems as if the NFS share is a great place to start. > > Best, > Eric > > _____________________________________________________________________________________________________ > > * Eric F. Alemany * > *System Administrator for Research* > > Division of Radiation & Cancer Biology > Department of Radiation Oncology > > Stanford University School of Medicine > Stanford, California 94305 > > Tel:1-650-498-7969 No Texting > Fax:1-650-723-7382 > > > > On May 10, 2018, at 4:23 PM, Lachlan Musicman <data...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 11 May 2018 at 01:35, Eric F. Alemany <ealem...@stanford.edu> wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I know this might sounds as a very basic question: where in the cluster >> should I install Python and R? >> Headnode? >> Execute nodes ? >> >> And is there a particular directory (path) I need to install Python and R. >> >> Background: >> SLURM on Ubuntu 18.04 >> 1 headnode >> 4 execute nodes >> NFS shared drive among all nodes. >> > > > Eric, > > To echo the others: we have a /binaries nfs share that utilises the > standard Environment Modules software so that researchers can manipulate > their $PATH on the fly with module load/module unload. That share is > mounted on all the nodes. > > For Python, I use virtualenv's but instead of activating, the path is > changed by the Module file. Personally, I find conda doesn't work very well > in a shared environment. It's fine on a personal level/ > > For R, we have resorted to only installing the main point release because > we have >700 libraries installed within R and I don't want to reinstall > them every time. We do also have packrat installed so researchers can > install their own libraries locally as well. > > > Cheers > L. > > > > >
