Conda

Important

We recommend the use of Intel Distribution for Python, part of Intel oneAPI installation, whenever possible. It comes with its own Conda tools and local Conda channel.

Invoking Conda

To obtain access to the installed Conda tool, load the module intel.universe in your Slurm batch script:

module load intel.universe

Afterwards any execution of conda from within that script, without specifying the full path to the executable, will invoke the Conda tool provided by Intel Distribution for Python (Intel oneAPI).

Local Conda channel

By default, Intel Distribution for Python installs and maintains (through updates) local Conda channel. The exact location of that channel is:

/opt/software/intel/oneapi/conda_channel

Warning

On Discoverer HPC users should use Conda to create local environment installations ONLY within their Personal scratch and storage folder (/discofs/username). Do not store the Python virtual environments under Home folder (/home/username) since they occupy large amount of disk space!

To install a virtual environment with Conda on Discoverer HPC, based on the local channel, follow the example:

mkdir -p /discofs/${USER}/jupyter_test_env_numpy
conda install -y -c /opt/software/intel/oneapi/conda_channel -p /discofs/${USER}/jupyter_test_env_numpy jupyterlab seaborn

Display the channels

To display the channels available to Conda, run:

module load intel.universe
conda config --show channels

The expected result of that command line execution is:

channels:
  - /opt/intel/oneapi/conda_channel
  - intel
  - defaults

(mind the listed local channel).

Getting help

See Getting help