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Documentation for the N8CIR Bede Tier 2 HPC faciltiy
https://bede-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Spack: Suggest installing to /nobackup #113

Closed ptheywood closed 2 years ago

ptheywood commented 2 years ago

Spack installs can become quite large, if multiple packages are installed. This can consume a decent amount of a users $HOME based on the current instructions.

The current Spack documentation should be modified to encourage users to install spack and therefore packages to /nobackup/projects/<project>/ or a per user subdirectory within the /nobackup/project region, to avoid filling the home directory quota.

/project could also be suggested, but this also has a limted quota, so nobackup is probably the preffered location.