<div dir="ltr"><div>I see, so if I understand it correctly I have to make sure that there is a copy of the library, environments and modules on every computational node?<br><br></div>I am wondering if I can get around it by using nfs. <br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, 28 Jun 2022 at 11:42, Richard <<a href="mailto:ejb@trick-1.net">ejb@trick-1.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">For what it’s worth I use an easy8 licensed bright cluster (now part of NVidia) and I continually find I need to make sure the module packages, environment variables etc are installed/set in the images that are deployed to the nodes<br>
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Bright supports slurm, k8, jupyter and a lot more<br>
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> On 28 Jun 2022, at 19:32, leo camilo <<a href="mailto:lhcamilo@gmail.com" target="_blank">lhcamilo@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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> # Background<br>
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> So, I am building this small beowulf cluster for my department. I have it running on ubuntu servers, a front node and at the moment 7 x 16 core nodes. I have installed SLURM as the scheduler and I have been procrastinating to setup environment modules.<br>
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> In any case, I ran in this particular scenario where I was trying to schedule a few jobs in slurm, but for some reason slurm would not find this library (libgsl). But it was in fact installed in the frontnode, I checked the path with ldd and I even exported the LD_LIBRARY_PATH .<br>
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> Oddly, if I ran the application directly in the frontnode, it would work fine.,<br>
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> Though it occured to me that the computational nodes might not have this library and surely once I installed this library in the nodes the problem went away.<br>
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> # Question:<br>
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> So here is the question, is there a way to cache the frontnode's libraries and environment onto the computational nodes when a slurm job is created?<br>
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> Will environment modules do that? If so, how?<br>
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> Thanks in advance,<br>
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> Cheers<br>
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