At work I had a task to port the WRFv4 atmospheric model that we currently run in the office, from a Docker container, up to the Lonestar5 (LS5) supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC). My first impulse was to simply replicate the Dockerfile steps that we use in a simple bash script to natively build the required WRF executab... Read more 23 Sep 2019 - 4 minute read
Create and populate the following file to add a dock shortcut to a website in Ubuntu using Ars Technica as an example. This will also enable the shortcut in the Gnome Shell search. ~/.local/share/applications/MyWebsite.desktop: [Desktop Entry] Comment=Ars Technica Terminal=false Name=Ars Technica Exec=firefox https://arstechnica.com/ Type=Appli... Read more 02 Sep 2019 - less than 1 minute read
This short summary is based on the Anaconda blog post here https://www.anaconda.com/moving-conda-environments/. The original blog post is a great high-level summary for the various methods in conda for reproducing environments. OS and platform specific (pulls from repos) # On source environment: conda list --explicit > spec-list.t... Read more 23 Aug 2019 - less than 1 minute read