A Collection of Julia Deployments on HPC Systems

A collection of module-centric Julia deployments on HPC systems.

How to use this Repository

Resuirements:

1. Lua and luaposix
2. Lmod or Environment Modules

Use the Entrypoint

entrypoint.sh

Rendering Templates

This project uses Simple Templates to render templates. A standalone version of Simple Templates is located at: ./opt/bin/simple-templates.ex and only requires a reasonably modern version of Lua to run (I didn't check how modern it needs to be though).

Simple Templates takes template files formatted in the mustache templating language and populates them with values from a settings (TOML version 0.4) file. This allows us to adapt Julia settings and modules whenever systems are reconfigured and upgraded.

Why not somethig like Jinja?

With the exception of Lua and LMod, the objective of this approach is to be as self-contained as possible. More powerful templating engines need other dependencies to be installed (e.g. a modern version of Python + a virtualenv), which are often not present on bare-bones systems. The reason for going with Lua is to not need a lengthy install procedure. Furthermore, more powerful templating languages are just not needed to generate what are basically just a bunch of settings and module files.

Installing Modules

This project uses Simple Modules to download and install software, and to render the corresponding module files. A standalone version of Simple Modules is located at: ./opt/bin/simple-modules.ex and requires a reasonably modern version of luaposix (which is used by Lmod also).

Simple Modules is a small utility that lets you easily download, build, and deploy software modules.

Use Modules (lmod) As Much As Possible

NERSC

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