Software Modules Lmod

Software Module System - Lmod

1 PREFACE

This guide describes the software environment and tools used to run applications on JUSTUS 2 system. It is intended as a general overview and introduction to the software system management on JUSTUS 2 for new users as well as for experienced users coming from JUSTUS 1 system.

2 MINIMALISTIC DESCRIPTION

JUSTUS 2 system uses Lmod (the Lua Based Module System https://slurm.schedmd.com/faq.html) environment management package to support dynamic modification of the user environment via modulefiles. Each modulefile contains information needed to configure the shell for a particular application. To make major changes in your user environment, such as switching to a different compiler, use the appropriate Modules commands to select the desired modulefiles.

2.1 Which shells supports module commands?

So far Bash is only supported shell on JUSTUS 2 to interpret module commands.