Using Julia on a Supercomputer

Table of Contents

Summit

Summit

Installation

Julia can be very easy to install on Summit. The instructions can be found here and are repeated in this section. It is highly recommended that you install the official generic binaries from the downloads page using the following set of commands. These commands extract the latest version of Julia (1.8.0) into a directory named julia-1.8.0.

wget https://julialang-s3.julialang.org/bin/linux/x64/1.8/julia-1.8.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz
tar zxvf julia-1.8.0-linux-x86_64.tar.gz

After running these commands, you want to add Julia to your path, otherwise you’ll need to specify the full path to where Julia is installed everytime. To add Julia to your path open your ~/.bashrc or ~/.bash_profile and add the line

export PATH=$PATH:/path/to/JuliaDirectory/bin

Don’t forget to source your .bashrc or .bash_profile afterwards. You should now be able to start a REPL by calling julia anywhere in your system.

Submitting a Job

Add using Pkg and Pkg.activate(".") at the top of a dedicated run.jl file
Don’t use special characters in your code

Pulling from GitHub

Adding your own Packages

Unlike my experience locally, if you want to add a package of your own to you current environment dev PackageName doesn’t work. Instead, you need to use the command dev "git@github.com:user/PackageName.jl.git".