gilgamesh: cluster status

[John Kitchin]

Hi everyone,

please forward this mail to your users and ask them to sign up for this list
at https://lists.andrew.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/gilgamesh-users.

some notes so far:

1. for improved resistance to hackers, gilgamesh can now only be accessed
through campus ip addresses (I think).

2. if you haven't changed your password please do so immediately. you may be
prompted to change your password on login. When you are done, the system
will log you out, and then you can log back in with your new password.

I have created directories in /opt for each group

/opt/maloneygroup
/opt/kitchingroup
/opt/mcgaugheygroup

members of the those groups should have read/write/execute access to those
directories. That means you can build software in those directories as you
see fit. I will leave it up to you to keep it organized as you need. If you
want to create modules to load your packages I can help with that in
September. there is nothing tricky about that. the basic premise is that you
install your software so it is "self-contained" in a directory in /opt. the
module simply adds directories to the relevant path variables, sets relevant
environment variables, etc... once you have those all figured out it should
be easy to make a module file.

3. there are already some modules setup
xemacs-21.4.22
python/python-2.6.5
python/ipython-0.10

if you do:
module load python/python-2.6.5

you will use the new python interpreter. To install your own versions of
python libraries, do this:
mkdir $HOME/my-site-packages
module load python/mypython

easy_install -d $HOME/my-site-packages python-package

More to come later.

John

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John Kitchin
Assistant Professor
Doherty Hall A207F
Department of Chemical Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
412-268-7803
http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu
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