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# Package Management

Slurm solves problems 1. and 2., but we're still left with problem 3. managing packages on our cluster when the needs of our users vary in different, and sometimes contradictory ways.

There are three main methods by which this problem is tackled on Luria:

* Environment modules
* Conda environments
* Containerization

We'll discuss the first two methods, then come back to containerization a bit later, as it is a much more complex topic.