DIY Local Program Installation
The situation can arise where your research requires the use of a highly specialized binary software package built with a graphical user interface. Unfortunately you discover a module for the package is not yet installed in the Compute Canada software stack and therefore set out to download, unpack and install the package into your home account. Upon attempting to start the program it immediately crashes displaying a message such as as "version GLIBC_2.18 not found". Determined to resolve the problem on your own, you find in the Compute Canada wiki a possible solution: https://docs.computecanada.ca/wiki/In.... The webinar picks up at this point, explains how to use the setrpaths script to patch the binaries in your program, discusses how to make use of a graphical user interface (if such is needed), and finally considers how to create a local module in your account to make it easier to use the program later.
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This webinar was presented by Doug Roberts (SHARCNET) on May 19, 2021, as a part of a series of regular biweekly General Interest 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... . Subscribe to our twitter account (@SHARCNET) to stay updated about our upcoming webinars.
SHARCNET is a consortium of 19 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).
