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On May 12, 2018, at 00:08, John Hearns <<a href="mailto:hearnsj@googlemail.com">hearnsj@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div>Eric, I'm sorry to be a little prickly here.</div>
<div>Each node has an independent home directory for the user?</div>
<div>How then do applications update dot files?</div>
<div>How then would as a for instance do the users edit the .bashrc file to bring Anaconda into their paths?</div>
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<div>Beofre anyone says it, a proper Modules system is the way forward.</div>
<div>But I know that when you install Anaconda as a user it adds the path to your .bashrc</div>
<div>Which fouls up Gnomes dbus daemon, which is another tale.</div>
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<div>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>I will be doing lots of reading this week-end.</div>
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<div>By the way, i signed up to the Beowulf mailing list.</div>
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I will echo that, and the suggestion of shared storage (we use our Lustre <br>
filesystem for that). I would also suggest looking at a system to help you <br>
automate building of software packages. Not only does this help replicate <br>
builds, but it also gives you access to the community who write the recipes <br>
for them - and that itself can be very valuable.<br>
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We use Easybuild (which also automates the creation of software modules - and <br>
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But there's also Spack too:<br>
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<a href="https://spack.io/" target="_blank">https://spack.io/</a><br>
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As another resource (as we are going off topic from Slurm here), I would <br>
suggest the Beowulf list as a mailing list that deals with Linux based HPC <br>
systems of many different scales. Disclosure: I now caretake the list, but <br>
it's been going since the 1990s.<br>
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<a href="http://beowulf.org/" target="_blank">http://beowulf.org/</a><br>
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All the best!<br>
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Chris Samuel : <a href="http://www.csamuel.org/" target="_blank">http://www.csamuel.org/</a> : Melbourne, VIC<br>
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