Quick demo for the impatient

Please note that even if you are impatient, you should install all required Dependencies. On top of that, this demo requires both a C and a C++ compiler to be available on your system, for example gcc and g++.

To see EasyBuild in action, build HPL with the robot feature of EasyBuild by running the following (bash/sh syntax):

export EBHOME="<path to where you unpacked EasyBuild>/easybuild"
${EBHOME}/eb --robot ${EBHOME}/easybuild/easyconfigs ${EBHOME}/easybuild/easyconfigs/h/HPL/HPL-2.0-goalf-1.1.0.eb

This will build and install HPL, after building and installing a GCC-based compiler toolkit and all of its dependencies using the default EasyBuild configuration, which will install to $HOME/.local/easybuild/software.

The whole process should take about an hour on a recent system.

Module files will be provided in $HOME/.local/easybuild/modules/all, so to load the provided modules, update your MODULEPATH environment variable.

If you want to change the path in which easybuild installs the software, read on!