[Beowulf] HPC workflows

[Tony Brian Albers]

On Tue, 2018-12-04 at 11:20 -0500, Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf wrote:
> On 12/3/18 2:44 PM, Michael Di Domenico wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 3, 2018 at 1:13 PM John Hanks <griznog at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >   From the perspective of the software being containerized, I'm
> > > even more skeptical. In my world (bioinformatics) I install a lot
> > > of crappy software. We're talking stuff resulting from "I read
> > > the first three days of 'learn python in 21 days' and now I'm an
> > > expert, just run this after installing these 17 things from
> > > pypi...and trust the output" I'm good friends with crappy
> > > software, we hang out together a lot. To me it just doesn't feel
> > > like making crappy software more portable is the *right* thing to
> > > do. When I walk my dog, I follow him with a bag and
> > > "containerize" what drops out. It makes it easier to carry
> > > around, but doesn't change what it is. As of today I see the
> > > biggest benefit of containers as that they force a developer to
> > > actually document the install procedure somewhere in a way that
> > > actually has to work so we can see firsthand how ridiculous it is
> > > (*cough* tensorflow *cough*).
> > 
> > I vote this the single best explanation of containers I've heard
> > all year... :)
> > _______________________________________________
> 
> I send that motion. All in favor say "aye".
> 
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> 
> Prentice
> 
> 
> 

Aye!


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