[Beowulf] Thoughts on EasyBuild?

[Michael Gutteridge]

We're pretty heavily invested in Easybuild (and Lmod).  It has simplified
our world as we're maintaining multiple versions of _lots_ of different
tools, are super-liberal about installing requested tools, and tend to be
pretty aggressive about deploying new releases.  It does add another layer
(the easyconfigs), but there's a huge library of existing configs so you
may not need to dig into those too much.

 - Michael

On Thu, Jan 17, 2019 at 7:43 AM Faraz Hussain <info at feacluster.com> wrote:

>
> Some folks I work with are using EasyBuild but I am not sure what to
> make of it. I am little skeptical of tools that promise one-command
> installations of complex software. On the other hand I can see its
> benefits by saving a lot of "re-inventing the wheel".
>
> What do people think? Like everything, the answer is probably it
> depends on what you use it for? Or is it another layer of complexity
> that just makes everything more complex?
>
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