Difference between revisions of "Modules"

Revision as of 20:16, 26 March 2012

Introduction

Setting and maintaining your environment while running a large number of diverse software applications with different requirements can be a daunting task. The UF HPC Center is adopting the modules system developed by Robert McLay at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) in order to ease the complexity of this process relieve users of this burden.

Basic usage

Please see Modules Basic Usage for a practical introduction to using modules at the UF HPC Center.

Mpi-selector Command Deprecated

With the introduction of modules, mpi-selector has been deprecated. If you have been using mpi-selector to set up your MPI environment, please see From mpi-selector to environment modules for more information.

Support

To request help with using modules or installation of new module enabled application please file a support request or if necessary please send us an email.

Upstream Documentation

Those who would like to learn as much as possible about lmod can use the documentation written by the Lmod author.

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 ==Introduction==
-Creating and maintaining a computing environment for a data analysis pipeline that consists of a large number of heterogenous tools, needs to be run by many users as must provide consistent data analysis results over a long time while frequent software upgrades and underlying operating system environment changes happen is not easy. Fortunately, the major points of this problem can be addressed by the use of an environmental modules system that abstracts the computing environment from the immediate data analysis steps. At the UF HPC we have chosen to implement this system using [http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/mclay/lmod Lmod] software written by Robert McLay at the Texas Advanced Computing Center [http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/home (TACC)].
+Setting and maintaining your environment while running a large number of diverse software applications with different requirements can be a daunting task.  The UF HPC Center is adopting the ''modules'' system developed by Robert McLay at the Texas Advanced Computing Center [http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/home (TACC)] in order to ease the complexity of this process relieve users of this burden.
-==Upstream Documentation==
-Those who would like to learn as much as possible about lmod can use the [http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/mclay/lmod documentation written by the Lmod author].
 ==Basic usage==
-See [[Modules Basic Usage]] for a practical introduction to using environment modules at HPC
+Please see [[Modules Basic Usage]] for a practical introduction to using ''modules'' at the UF HPC Center.
 ==Mpi-selector Command Deprecated==
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 ==Support==
 To request help with using modules or installation of new module enabled application please file a [http://support.hpc.ufl.edu support request] or if necessary please send us an [mailto:om@hpc.ufl.edu email].
+==Upstream Documentation==
+Those who would like to learn as much as possible about lmod can use the [http://www.tacc.utexas.edu/tacc-projects/mclay/lmod documentation written by the Lmod author].