On Thu, February 11, 2010 5:13 pm, John Reddy wrote: > One of my users, bless his heart, has requested I install a tool called > "modules". That's all he's been able to describe it to me as in terms of > name. Apparently, it's a program that allows users to load or unload > grouped sets of environment variables. > > See, we've got a clustered processing environment with 120 dual-quad > nodes running Scientific Linux 4.x and 5.x (SL is a RHEL derivative like > Centos) > with job control via Torque & Moab. We've got three different compilers > with multiple versions each, a variety of implementations of MPI, etc. > So a > tool such as this would be useful for my users. > > Now the MPI selection is easily handled with mpi-selector. And I could > probably (easily) enlist that tool for environment selection. However, > I'd > like to see if I can find someone using the tool my user requested. > > TIA for any thoughts on the matter.
We use it and love it. It's almost done away with debugging users' shell profiles with 10 years of cruft in them. After a little learning our users are quite happy with it. Skylar _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] http://lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
