Tutorials

This is a short guide to add students to the local machine. It has a first part that is meant to be followed by students. Then, the second part is a remainder for who creates the account.

User Access

To access to our computation machine, you need either to connect using an ethernet cable or to access through the polimi VPN. A VPN (Virtual Private Network) is a technology that creates a secure, encrypted connection between your device and an internal network.

This tutorial show how it is possible to use spack to build your toolchain from scratch and how to use module to manage the software. These tools operate in userspace, making them suitable to work both on your local machine and on an HPC center. Actually on CINECA it is the preffered way of building software. We assume a Linux operating system.

Start from spack

From a suitable working directory (e.g. /opt), you need to clone and initialize spack from its repository. Please, note that spack will install all the software within the repository folder. To grab it, you can issue the following commands in a terminal: