Just for completion. I can recommend using singularity <https://singularity.lbl.gov/> /docker containers. You can copy them to the worker nodes during sbatch. In the long run it eases up a lot.
Viele Grüße / kind regards Georg 2018-05-10 17:48 GMT+02:00 Simon Flood <s.m.fl...@uis.cam.ac.uk>: > On 10/05/18 16:35, Eric F. Alemany wrote: > > 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. >> >> Thank you all for your help. >> > > (N)Either - install them in directories on the NFS shared drive so that > all nodes have access to them. You'll then need to either manually set PATH > and other environment variables or use module files to manage these. > > Presumably all nodes, head and execute, are running the same version of > the same OS otherwise that could cause a problem with libraries, etc. > > HTH, > Simon > -- > Simon Flood > HPC System Administrator > University of Cambridge Information Services > United Kingdom > >
