Support Lmod

[mrgum]

I have rasied with AWS Support and they asked me to raise a Feature Request...

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Required Info:

• AWS ParallelCluster version [e.g. 3.1.1]: 3.7.2
• Slurm

Bug description and how to reproduce: I would like the option to use Lmod instead of environment-modules

At present parallel cluster installs environment-modules and the current validator requires that implementation (see my PR https://github.com/aws/aws-parallelcluster/pull/3862)

I'd like to either

• have a parallel cluster option to choose which modules implementation to install or failing that,
• be able to replace environment-modules with Lmod in my parallel cluster image

at present, due to the validator, I have to do the replacement in the user-data of the compute instances which adds to the, already too long, time it takes from a instance starting to it being available to the cluster and jobs starting on it

Thanks, Neil

[davprat]

Thank you for your request. I've added this to our feature request queue.