Draft:Software Installation Policies and Guidelines

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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.
  • 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.