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Python is very popular in the field of machine learning. If you (plan to) use it on our clusters, please refer to [[Python|our documentation about Python]] to get important information about Python versions, virtual environments on login or on compute nodes, <tt>multiprocessing</tt>, Anaconda, Jupyter, etc. | Python is very popular in the field of machine learning. If you (plan to) use it on our clusters, please refer to [[Python|our documentation about Python]] to get important information about Python versions, virtual environments on login or on compute nodes, <tt>multiprocessing</tt>, Anaconda, Jupyter, etc. | ||
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We ask our users to avoid using Anaconda, and use virtualenv instead. Here are the reasons: | We ask our users to avoid using Anaconda, and use virtualenv instead. Here are the reasons: | ||
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* Tries to handle library management that should be reserved to staff | * Tries to handle library management that should be reserved to staff | ||
** Ships binaries unoptimized for specific CPU architecture | ** Ships binaries unoptimized for specific CPU architecture | ||
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* Modifies bashrc, which can cause conflicts | * Modifies bashrc, which can cause conflicts | ||
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'''Switching to virtualenv is easy in most cases. Just install all the same packages, except CUDA, CuDNN and other low level libraries, which are already installed on our clusters.''' | '''Switching to virtualenv is easy in most cases. Just install all the same packages, except CUDA, CuDNN and other low level libraries, which are already installed on our clusters.''' | ||