Open ledm opened 4 years ago
a VM is also useful for personal user use too, if they just want to muck around or even if they want to run actual pre-made recipes; I think we should aim at a central installation on Jasmin, rather than a VM, accessible via module load
- a VM can be created anyway and we can host the VM box somewhere for the user to load it on the go and get into it (and that should contain data too) but on HPC's there is not much of a point deploying VM's when we have all the CMIP data just a few dirs away
Okay, if thats the plan for all tutorials, will Jasmin access be a problem? Isn't it an UK/EU based machine?
Either way, could you let me know how it would work and I'll start writing it into 02-installation.md.
I meant aVM is not needed on an HPC, I still think setting up a VM and uploading it on a shared platform for users to download it is a very good idea. In my vew the plan would be this:
module load esmvaltool
; we need peeps to do the same for DKRZ, etc)virtualbox
and play around - the same way as @glad64 has done for the Singapore workshopHow's it sound?
I believe Javi came up with the idea of using virtual box for the training. Maybe he already has content for the installation part of the tutorial? @jvegasbsc would you be interested in contributing that?
Maybe he already has content for the installation part of the tutorial? @jvegasbsc would you be interested in contributing that?
I don't have content but I can help with that
I have some experience with Virtualbox:
For the ESMValTool tutorial we could use packer to create Virtualbox/Vagrant images automatically.
Last week, we also discussed setting up virtual machines, using a ready-made conda on jasmin, and we have also discussed a jupyter notebook. These are supposedly easy way for people to get started on ESMValTool at face-to-face tutorials without having to install ESMValTool.
None of this appears in the tutorial at the moment, so it would be good to set something. I don't know anything about that though. Can someone volunteer to write something in 02-installation.md? @valeriupredoi :beers: if you do.
The second question is: this is useful for a face to face set up, but less so for a DIY try out ESMValTool yourself at home setting. I guess we should include both options in the installation page, but be clear that one is for tutorials and one if for "real" use.