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Cambridge IoA Cluster Guide

Note

Your home directory is very limited on storage space (just a few GB). This means that files should be stored on the data drives. Ask IT for space on these.

Setup Visual Studio Code server

The VSCode server takes up a lot of space.

  1. Disconnect any vscode connections, and re-connect using a normal terminal ssh session.
  2. Remove the folder rm -rf ~/.vscode-server
  3. Create it on the data drive mkdir /data/$USER/.vscode-server
  4. Create a symbolic link to this new folder ln -sf /data/$USER/.vscode-server ~/.vscode-server

Setup Julia

If you have already installed Julia in your home folder, remove it and any bashrc entries.

Then set the variables in your bashrc file: 

export JULIAUP_HOME=/data/$USER/.juliaup/
export JULIAUP_DEPOT_PATH=/data/$USER/.juliaup/
export JULIA_DEPOT_PATH=/data/$USER/.julia/

Set your module config in your bashrc too: 

module load netcdf openmpi mpich cuda

Then install Julia, making sure to set the path to /data/<username>/.julia when prompted

curl -fsSL https://install.julialang.org | sh

Setup Python

It is important that you DO NOT set the variable PYTHON_JULIAPKG_EXE. The main install steps will instruct you to do this. Please ignore that advice.

Then install Python, also making sure to install to /data/<username>/miniforge3:

curl -L -O "https://github.com/conda-forge/miniforge/releases/latest/download/Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh"
bash Miniforge3-$(uname)-$(uname -m).sh

Note

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