And Gavin W. Burris writes: > Sure, distribute your container, but also consider writing code > that can be compiled easily in a self-contained directory like a > home directory.
That ship sailed long ago and isn't coming back. "All the world is your laptop" is pretty much how it is for current students who become the next developers. Letting people emulate their laptop sufficiently well on a cluster will help quite a few non-CS users. Even for CS-ish users, home directory servers cannot support undergrad student numbers at current available funding levels, there are no central computing labs where people access them, etc. Students really aren't even exposed to shared home-directory style filesystems short of data dumping places equivalent to Dropbox. Installing into the home directory no longer occurs to people who own the entire file system. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
