All upscaling codes now depend on umfpack (contained in the suitesparse 
package) being available at runtime. Unfortunately, suitesparse is not 
installed by default on cluster nodes, so codes will fail to run by default. I 
can see four possible solutions. The most convenient one being that suitesparse 
is installed by default over here. Unfortunately, that may be difficult to 
achieve, and will be of little value to the next user coming along with the 
same issue. The second being that we maintain the suitesparse libraries out of 
tree, pointing to them with LD_LIBRARY_PATH. This will probably work, so I 
guess this is what we will do right now, but it adds up the dependencies we 
have to maintain and sync out-of-tree. It will also be of little value to the 
next user coming along with the same issue. The third option is to compile 
umfpack with dependency (libamd.so on AMD systems I believe) statically. This 
will probably just work without issue for all users, but somebody will need to 
do the necessary cmake magic, and the static versions of the libraries will be 
a build time dependency. The fourth option is to remove the dependency on 
umfpack (didn't it use to be an optional dependency?), not sure about the 
implications there. There is of course the fifth option of trying to get Red 
Hat et. al. to include suitesparse in a base installation, but I do not think 
that is realistic.

Opinions are welcome,
Alf

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