Building Software Environments for Research Computing Clusters
Mark Howison, Aaron Shen, and Andrew Loomis, Brown University
Over the past two years, we have built a diverse software environment of over 200 scientific applications for our research computing platform at Brown University. In this report, we share the policies and best practices we have developed to simplify the configuration and installation of this software environment and to improve its usability and performance. In addition, we present a reference implementation of an environment modules system, called PyModules, that incorporates many of these ideas.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {179065,
author = {Mark Howison and Aaron Shen and Andrew Loomis},
title = {Building Software Environments for Research Computing Clusters},
booktitle = {27th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA 13)},
year = {2013},
isbn = {978-1-931971-05-8},
address = {Washington, D.C.},
pages = {1--6},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa13/technical-sessions/presentation/howison},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = nov
}
