General Environment Setup to Work with SCU Resources
Setup Slurm
In order to use SCU resources, you'll first need to setup your environment to work properly with our implementation of the job scheduler, Slurm. This is described here: Using Slurm
Setup Spack
Once this is done, you'll need to setup your environment to use Spack, our cluster-wide package manager. This is described here: Spack
Spack Introduction and Environment Setup
What is Spack?
Spack is a package manager, similar to yum
, apt-get
, or conda. I
t allows for multiple package versions/configurations. Unlike the other package managers listed, Spack is specifically designed to be used on HPC resources with varying architectures. The purpose of this documentation is to provide a practical guide to quickly enable you to take advantage of its use in your research.
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