Question before installing on cluster

Use of Cobaya. camb, CLASS, cosmomc, compilers, etc.
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Albin Nilsson
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Question before installing on cluster

Post by Albin Nilsson » December 10 2016

I have been asked to install CosmoMC on our cluster, and before attempting this I'd like to ask:

From what I've gleaned from the readme and from this forum. CAMB and CosmoMC should be installed in the user directory on the cluster (say /user/albin/cosmomc, since I am the only one who will be using it).
However, in this paper https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.1354v3.pdf they say that one should first install it locally and then simply write a job script to the cluster queue. Which is the best option?

Sorry if this is obvious, and thanks for any replies :)

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Re: Question before installing on cluster

Post by Antony Lewis » December 11 2016

They are the same? Install locally, then adapt job submission templates if necessary.

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Post by Albin Nilsson » December 11 2016

Does 'install locally' not mean on my own machine?
If locally means the user directory on the cluster then they are the same

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Post by Jason Dossett » December 19 2016

In this place locally means in your user directory on the cluster.

Globally in this context would mean install on every node of the cluster in the /usr/bin folder for example.

Note that if you are installing on a heterogeneous cluster you should not use the -xHost compiler flag when compiling. For a homogeneous cluster though, -xHost can give you slightly better performance.

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Question before installing on cluster

Post by Albin Nilsson » December 20 2016

Thanks Jason, I get it now :)

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