SciNet User Group Meeting  (June 2019) (Old site; new site is at https://scinet.courses)

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No Conda: Using Python, Installing Packages, and Accessing Jupyter Notebooks on Niagara

Abstract

If you want to know how to use install specific Python packages or how to use jupyter notebooks, most instructions that you find these days will tell you to use anaconda or miniconda. While very convenient on your own personal computer, conda comes with substantial storage inefficiencies and conflicts with other software, and is therefore not the recommended option on supercomputers. In this techtalk, we will explain and demonstrate how you can instead use virtual environments instead of conda environments, and use Niagara's JupyterHub instance (which also supports R and can be made to work with Julia as well).