Marc Joos

Since more than 3 decades, Environment Modules helps HPC sites to provide access to their scientific software catalog. Such tool relies on updating the environment of a shell session, being able to undo what it changed.

Scientific applications rely on third-party libraries, which may have multiple implementations with many of these implementations not sharing the application binary interface (ABI) and require recompiling depending on the target system. Recompiling can be a long and complex process, (1) impeding application execution across different HPC and Cloud systems; (2) adding developer hours rebuilding an…