Eric, I'm sorry to be a little prickly here. Each node has an independent home directory for the user? How then do applications update dot files? How then would as a for instance do the users edit the .bashrc file to bring Anaconda into their paths?
Beofre anyone says it, a proper Modules system is the way forward. But I know that when you install Anaconda as a user it adds the path to your .bashrc Which fouls up Gnomes dbus daemon, which is another tale. On 12 May 2018 at 07:09, Eric F. Alemany <ealem...@stanford.edu> wrote: > 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 No Texting > Fax:1-650-723-7382 > > > > On May 11, 2018, at 12:56 AM, Chris Samuel <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 > > > >
