Add Environment Modules to Build and software organization tools #535
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Reintroduce Environment Modules software which was removed by 7f947f8. Removal was due to the project being hosted on SourceForge. Project is now primarily managed from GitHub.
Also take this opportunity to clarify name of Lmod software (in the same category).
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Please take some time to answer the following questions as best you can:
Environment Modules helps to manage large software catalog and provide various versions of the same software. It is a tool coming from the HPC world and deployed on most supercomputers to help their user to handle their software set.
I use it since 15 years
You can use this software either on your local laptop or on a supercomputer environment. So it may be used on both setup kind.
Environment Modules enables software in user environment. With this tool sysadmins in HPC centers usually provides 1000x of software to their users through this tool.
Environment Modules was first released in 1991. Since then other implementation of the
module
concept were published. Most popular of these alternatives is Lmod which is also listed here.Environment Modules is actively developed, tested and provides advanced features like dependency resolution of the modulefiles to load in user environment.
Biggest cons is that the modulefiles are written in Tcl, which is a scripting language people are often afraid of. But as soon as they overcome this initial fear, writing modulefiles is quite easy (this is just simple Tcl scripts).
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