Packaging with Nix
For awhile now SHARCNET has provided the Nix package manager. This allows user to install a variety of common packages in their own environment and is a great way to get access to otherwise unavailable and/or newer versions of many utilities. It is also fully atomic and transactioned so your Nix environment can be updated with impunity.
This talk is an introduction to extending the Nix package with your own packages, either code you have written yourself or other other packages you wish to use that aren’t yet included in Nix. This allows you to take advantage of the many dependencies that Nix provides and easily share the results with other SHARCNET users.
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This webinar was presented by Tyson Whitehead (SHARCNET) on August 16th 2017 as a part of a series of regular biweekly webinars ran by SHARCNET. The webinars cover different high performance computing (HPC) topics, are approximately 45 minutes in length, and are delivered by experts in the relevant fields. Further details can be found on this web page: https://www.sharcnet.ca/help/index.ph...
SHARCNET is a consortium of 18 Canadian academic institutions who share a network of high performance computers (http://www.sharcnet.ca). SHARCNET is a part of Compute Ontario (http://computeontario.ca/) and Compute Canada (https://computecanada.ca).
