Hi all, one of the issues we've seen when teaching learners, particularly in the engineering and physical sciences, is that although Software Carpentry teaches them valuable skills for developing their own software, there's often a requirement to use existing legacy scientific codes which are difficult to install and configure.
I saw a presentation of EasyBuild (http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/) recently, and tried it out(*), and it seems to provide an interface similar to HomeBrew for Macs for installing a wide range of popular scientific software. Good documentation, though more aimed at system administrators and power users. They're also apparently talking to the other major scientific software code packaging frameworks in the US and Australia about collaborating/merging. Might be of interest to those looking to make it easier to teach follow-on courses on specific pieces of software in their institutions. Best regards Neil (*) And if I can use it to install something, it must be getting something right ;-) -- Neil Chue Hong Director, Software Sustainability Institute EPCC, University of Edinburgh, JCMB, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK Tel: +44 (0)131 650 5957 http://www.software.ac.uk/ LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/neilchuehong Twitter: http://twitter.com/npch ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8876-7606 _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
