Draft:Software Installation Policies and Guidelines

User login server abuse—what to do?

• TODO: post a terminator whitelist to #apps and try running it manually before letting it loose via a
• The login nodes might be big enough that we have a large gap between the resources cgroups_py tries to keep available and our login policy.
• Checkout the 'arbiter' script again. Describe the functionality of the main R and python environments vs more specific environments like pytorch and tensorflow or domain-specific collections like geopython or DJppytt)Q0

TODO: write a help page on software installation guidelines, use expectations, and limits.

• Recommendations on using our prebuilt e.nys vs building their own in the context of speed of customization vs. maintaining functional environments. Focus on R and python at first.
• Curated list of prebuilt environments for users to reference in the context of the above recommendations.
• Published environment.yml files for the popular environments like pytorch, which users could refer to when starting to build their or use prebuilt containers
  • e.g. pytorch container from NVIDIA.
• Availability of the linux software installed in lapps in ResVault.