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<div class="">Thank you for your comments. I will look at Easybuild. There are quite a few options to automate the creation of software modules.</div>
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<div class="">I will be doing lots of reading this week-end.</div>
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<div class="">By the way, i signed up to the Beowulf mailing list.</div>
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<div class="">On May 11, 2018, at 12:56 AM, Chris Samuel <<a href="mailto:chris@csamuel.org" class="">chris@csamuel.org</a>> wrote:</div>
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<div class="">On Friday, 11 May 2018 5:11:38 PM AEST John Hearns wrote:<br class="">
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<blockquote type="cite" class="">Eric, my advice would be to definitely learn the Modules system and<br class="">
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I will echo that, and the suggestion of shared storage (we use our Lustre <br class="">
filesystem for that). I would also suggest looking at a system to help you <br class="">
automate building of software packages. Not only does this help replicate <br class="">
builds, but it also gives you access to the community who write the recipes <br class="">
for them - and that itself can be very valuable.<br class="">
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We use Easybuild (which also automates the creation of software modules - and <br class="">
I would suggest using the Lmod system for that):<br class="">
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<a href="https://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild/" class="">https://easybuilders.github.io/easybuild/</a><br class="">
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But there's also Spack too:<br class="">
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https://spack.io/<br class="">
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As another resource (as we are going off topic from Slurm here), I would <br class="">
suggest the Beowulf list as a mailing list that deals with Linux based HPC <br class="">
systems of many different scales. Disclosure: I now caretake the list, but <br class="">
it's been going since the 1990s.<br class="">
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http://beowulf.org/<br class="">
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All the best!<br class="">
Chris<br class="">
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Chris Samuel : http://www.csamuel.org/ : Melbourne, VIC<br class="">
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