[firedrake] Firedrake installation on cluster

[Lawrence Mitchell]

On 02/11/17 13:38, Burns, Paul wrote:
> Hi, 
> 
> 
> Jemma mentioned that you think it might be a good idea to try
> pre-loading the relevant netCDF4 module before activating the
> Firedrake virtual environment on Isca?
> 
> 
> Presumably, to use the 'module load' command we would need to ask the
> Isca team to add a new version of netCDF4 to their central library of
> software.  I have checked and Isca does not include the version of
> netCDF4 installed by the Firedrake installer.  The Firedrake installer
> seemed to install: netCDF4-1.3.0-cp35-cp35m-manylinux1_x86_6

OK, one thing that may be happening here is that the netcdf package
that pip installs comes with a mismatching netcdf library.

Can you do

pip uninstall netCDF4

Then load all the modules you normally do, then use

pip install --no-binary netCDF4 netCDF4

Hopefully then the install will link against the system-provided netcdf.

Lawrence