[slurm-users] Python and R installation in a SLURM cluster

[Eric F. Alemany]

Thank you Thomas for your suggestion. I take note of all the people’s comment and hope to come with a good solution.

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Eric F.  Alemany
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Department of Radiation Oncology

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On May 10, 2018, at 10:32 AM, Thomas M. Payerle <payerle at umd.edu<mailto:payerle at umd.edu>> wrote:

Assuming you plan for users to use R in jobs, it will need to be accessible to the execute/compute nodes.
I would usually suggest on a shared drive.   Although it should be OK if locally installed on each compute
node (probably want at same exact path and with same R packages installed).  Presumably you would
also want it available on the login nodes (users tend to like to see what software is installed, etc).  I do not believe
R is needed on the headnode (the one running the scheduler) unless that also serves as the login node.

The situation for python would be the same, except that I do not recall if the slurm daemons or utilities want
python (if so, you would need it on the head node, but would not need science related packages like numpy/scipy).




On Thu, May 10, 2018 at 11:35 AM, Eric F. Alemany <ealemany at stanford.edu<mailto:ealemany at stanford.edu>> wrote:
Hi All,

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.

Best,
Eric

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Eric F.  Alemany
System Administrator for Research

Division of Radiation & Cancer  Biology
Department of Radiation Oncology

Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California 94305

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