Tim’s Tech Tool Tips
Tim's Tech Tool Tips
Timothy Rudenko is Research Computing’s HPC Systems Administrator. Since Tim spends so much time working on the cluster, he is the perfect person to provide quick and easy tips to help you successfully navigate the cluster.
“Don’t run jobs on the login node!”
February 26, 2025
- Instead of putting module load or export statements in your .bashrc, put them in a text file called and env.sh, which can be loaded in interactive sessions via “bash env.sh.” Or, you can keep these statements in sbatch scripts.
. - Use a conda environment or python virtual environment to install python packages. Running “!pip install” in a Jupiter Lab session installs the package to a hidden directory in your home (.local) where it can negatively impact the function of future Jupyter Lab notebook sessions.
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