Hi there, Thanks to EasyBuild, we at Uni.Lu are more than half in our way on the HPC platforms to provide the 1st generation of a reproducible bioinformatics environment. Applause ! http://hpcbios.readthedocs.org/en/latest/HPCBIOS_2011-94.html
Since I have been preparing a good bunch of bioinformatics packages: https://github.com/fgeorgatos/easybuild.experimental/tree/master/users/fgeorgatos/bioinfo I'd like to have a dedicated moduleclass "bio" for them now; *Do you agree?* IMHO, in fact, more generally, we should ideally get exactly what the HLRS guys have done: https://github.com/fgeorgatos/easybuild.experimental/wiki/Package-categories ie. bio cae chem compiler debugger devel ide lib math mpi numlib performance phys system tools vis And, now tell me, doesn't this appear to be nicely backward-compatible? ;-) Perhaps also having a "metamodule" moduleclass would make sense, to serve items like "goalf"/"ictce" and HPCBIOS's policies; do you have any objections to that? (after all, they aren't exactly "compiler" modules; it seems pending work to me!) Finally, has anybody seen something like the following? (I know modules sometime play tricks on you and metamodules seem to tickle dragon's tail) fgeorgatos@gaia-13:~/easybuild.experimental/users/fgeorgatos/bioinfo$ module purge fgeorgatos@gaia-13:~/easybuild.experimental/users/fgeorgatos/bioinfo$ module load GSL goalf fgeorgatos@gaia-13:~/easybuild.experimental/users/fgeorgatos/bioinfo$ module load GSL goalf PETSc ERROR: module load GSL goalf PETSc failed fgeorgatos@gaia-13:~/easybuild.experimental/users/fgeorgatos/bioinfo$ module load PETSc thank you all guys, Fotis
