This a set of example bash scripts designed to perform repeatable and cumulative installations on a HPC cluster where library versions are handled by environment modules.

Two assumptions:

• libraries are installed in a shared partition
• module files are named according to the following scheme: {library_version}_{compiler_version}_{main_dependency_version}

Example of resulting module organization:

tree modules/tools/
modules/tools/
├── cmake
│   └── 3.9.2_gcc640
├── paraview
│   ├── 5.3.0_gcc640_openmpi1107
│   ├── 5.3.0_gcc640_openmpi211
│   ├── 5.4.1_gcc640_openmpi1107
│   ├── 5.4.1_gcc640_openmpi211
│   └── 5.4.1-py3_gcc640_openmpi1107
└── singularity
    └── 2.4.0_gcc640

and corresponding installation directories (here for paraview):

tree -L 3 install/paraview/
install/paraview/
├── 5.3.0
│   └── gcc-6.4.0
│       ├── openmpi-1.10.7
│       └── openmpi-2.1.1
├── 5.4.1
│   └── gcc-6.4.0
│       ├── openmpi-1.10.7
│       └── openmpi-2.1.1
└── 5.4.1-py3
    └── gcc-6.4.0
        └── openmpi-1.10.7

Requires only bash for execution and envtpl for module file templating:

pip install envtpl

Set your custom paths in common.sh for the 3 directories:

BASE_WORK_DIR=${SOFT_DIR}/sources  # sources download and compilation top directory
BASE_INSTALL_DIR=${SOFT_DIR}/install  # libraries installation top directory
BASE_MODULE_DIR=${SOFT_DIR}/modules  # modulefiles top directory

These directories will be created if they don't exist.

Each sub directory of this project corresponds to a library (or application) installation. For most cases, it contains 2 files:

• module.tmpl, a module file templated with Jinja2
• install.sh, a bash script to be run:
  • ./install.sh without argument
    1. download && compile && install the library
    2. build && install the module file
  • ./install.sh clean: remove the temporary directories used for download and compilation
  • ./install.sh module: build && install only the module file

• Copy an existing directory and adapt the install.sh and module.tmpl files.
• From this directory, run:

./install.sh

• install.sh: the only parameters values that may be changed are located at the top of the file. For example for paraview/install.sh:

LIB_NAME="paraview"  # unchanged
LIB_VERSION_URL=5.4.1
LIB_VERSION=${LIB_VERSION_URL}-py3
GCC_VERSION=6.4.0
MPI_LIB=openmpi
MPI_VERSION=1.10.7
HDF5_VERSION=1.10.1
CMAKE_VERSION=3.9.2

• module.tmpl remains unchanged.
• Run again:

./install.sh