[easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Stuart Barkley
I've been looking at easybuild for a little while now and it appears to be a suitable framework for a good portion of our needs. Easybuild already has support for a lot of the packages we are interested in running. I was also able to find answers to several of my early problems in the mailing lis

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Jack Perdue
Howdy Stuart, I'll offer an unofficial welcome to EasyBuild. I can relate to quite a bit of the below. I'm not sure I have any good answers yet. But WELCOME Your comments will not go unnoticed For example, I just want to second one of your points (while I ponder if I can better answer y

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Ward Poelmans
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:32 AM, Stuart Barkley wrote: > I've been looking at easybuild for a little while now and it appears > to be a suitable framework for a good portion of our needs. Welcome to EB! > My cluster does not have direct access to the Internet so I can't use > any of the automate

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi Stuart, On Feb 11, 2015, at 2:32 AM, Stuart Barkley wrote: > I've been looking at easybuild for a little while now and it appears > to be a suitable framework for a good portion of our needs. If you provide software for HPC you are on the right road. > I think I eventually used "--dry-run -

RE: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Cook, Malcolm
Hi Fotis & Stuart, >> What do people do/recommend for multiple OS environments? We are >> currently CentOS 6 but will eventually move to C7. I'm thinking I >> will want a separate application tree for each OS (/projects/app-c6 >> and /projects/app-c7). >> >> How do people deal with soft

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Jack Perdue
On 02/11/2015 10:09 AM, Cook, Malcolm wrote: Hi Fotis & Stuart, What do people do/recommend for multiple OS environments? We are >> currently CentOS 6 but will eventually move to C7. I'm thinking I >> will want a separate application tree for each OS (/projects/app-c6 >> and /proje

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-11 Thread Olav Smørholm
On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:30:30AM -0600, Jack Perdue wrote: > On 02/11/2015 10:09 AM, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > >Hi Fotis & Stuart, > > > >>>What do people do/recommend for multiple OS environments? We are > > >> currently CentOS 6 but will eventually move to C7. I'm thinking I > > >> will wa

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-13 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi Malcolm, Jack, >> >Then you might create symlinks like: >> > /opt/apps/sandybridge -> /opt/apps/*.MMDD >> > >> >I used a dubious example name above but you get the idea. Something that has functioned in practice before is a scheme like: /opt/apps/HPCBIOS.haswell -> /opt/apps/HP

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-13 Thread Pablo Escobar Lopez
2015-02-11 17:09 GMT+01:00 Cook, Malcolm : > > > Fotis, I note your example name, "sandybridge", apparently encoded an > intel processor microarchitecture, NOT the name of a linux distribution > (such as c6 or c7 for releases of centOS, as proposed). I'm trying to > understand the implications

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-13 Thread Malcolm Cook
Hi, > > >> >Then you might create symlinks like: > >> > /opt/apps/sandybridge -> /opt/apps/*.MMDD > >> > > >> >I used a dubious example name above but you get the idea. > > Something that has functioned in practice before is a scheme like: > > /opt/apps/HPCBIOS.haswell -> /opt/apps/H

Re: [easybuild] easybuild new user experience

2015-02-14 Thread Fotis Georgatos
Hi Malcolm, On Feb 13, 2015, at 8:01 PM, Malcolm Cook wrote: > This level of symlink indirection is providing for 'buildsets' whose name > encodes microprocessor-architecture and creation date of the buildset, only > one of which is 'current', right? > > And, the '-h' and 's' _could_ be spel