Hi Chris, Thank you for your comments. I will look at Easybuild. There are quite a few options to automate the creation of software modules.
I will be doing lots of reading this week-end. By the way, i signed up to the Beowulf mailing list. Thank you, 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<tel:1-650-498-7969> No Texting Fax:1-650-723-7382<tel:1-650-723-7382> On May 11, 2018, at 12:56 AM, Chris Samuel <ch...@csamuel.org<mailto:ch...@csamuel.org>> wrote: On Friday, 11 May 2018 5:11:38 PM AEST John Hearns wrote: Eric, my advice would be to definitely learn the Modules system and implement modules for your users. I will echo that, and the suggestion of shared storage (we use our Lustre filesystem for that). I would also suggest looking at a system to help you automate building of software packages. Not only does this help replicate builds, but it also gives you access to the community who write the recipes for them - and that itself can be very valuable. We use Easybuild (which also automates the creation of software modules - and I would suggest using the Lmod system for that): https://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild/ But there's also Spack too: https://spack.io/ As another resource (as we are going off topic from Slurm here), I would suggest the Beowulf list as a mailing list that deals with Linux based HPC systems of many different scales. Disclosure: I now caretake the list, but it's been going since the 1990s. http://beowulf.org/ All the best! Chris -- Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC
