Hi all, I've been collaborating with them a lot and have brought EasyBuild to our site at Juelich Supercomputing Centre. I'm actually looking to use it to create more reproducible examples for HPC practicals. There are some pros and cons for newbies, not least of these is being forced to use the 'module' tool to manage the environment and having to build the software stack from the ground up (while it is all automated, it takes a long time).
Overall, I'm a big fan but I'm not sure it's a perfect fit for the SC target audience. Best, Alan On 7 May 2015 at 13:44, Neil Chue Hong (SSI) <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: 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<tel:%2B44%20%280%29131%20650%205957> 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]<mailto:[email protected]> http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org -- Dr. Alan O'Cais Application Support Juelich Supercomputing Centre Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich, Germany Phone: +49 2461 61 5213 Fax: +49 2461 61 6656 E-mail: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> WWW: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/EN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Marquardt (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. Schmidt ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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