CONDA - SQUID

The following discusses the process of setting up a conda environment for SQUID supercomputer.

Initial setup

By default, the conda installation will put the files to home drive. This is not good because the allocated drive space is not big enough. Therefore, we need to change the installation path to the work drive

Declare the WORK directory as an environment variable

For fast and easy installation, we will first declare the WORK directory as an environment variable. Add the following to .bash_profile file

# Change GROUP_NAME and USER_NUMBER to your group name and user number
export WORK=/sqfs/work/GROUP_NAME/USER_NUMBER

After this, source the .bash_profile file

source ~/.bash_profile

# Check if the WORK directory is declared
echo "HOME directory: " $HOME
echo "WORK directory: " $WORK

Configure new package and environment location

mkdir -p $WORK/apps/conda
conda config --add envs_dirs $WORK/apps/conda/conda_env
conda config --add pkgs_dirs $WORK/apps/conda/conda_pkg

# Check if the configuration is successful
conda config --show | grep  -e pkgs_dirs  -e envs_dirs -A 1

For more information: http://www.hpc.cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp/system/manual/squid-use/anaconda/