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compute-env-setup
Prepare reproducible setup instructions and validate a user-managed named software environment on an Open-Science SSH Compute Host, including direct SSH and Slurm hosts. Use when a remote job needs packages, modules, cache variables, or a repeatable activation that the host does not already provide.
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# Compute environment setup
Prepare one reproducible environment definition and instructions for one small user-managed host
activation file. Open-Science resolves `submitJob(..., { environment: '<name>' })` by sourcing
`~/.open-science/environments/<name>.sh` before the workload. Existing `~/.openscience/environments/<name>.sh` definitions remain readable in place. Before creating an activation, check both names: update the existing definition at its exact location; if both exist, ask the user which to retain. Never create a second activation just to rename the brand. The file contains activation only; it
does not install packages when a job starts.
Software environment setup and Slurm accounting service configuration are separate concerns.
An unavailable `sacct` service is not evidence that Python, Conda, modules, or the named activation
file are missing. Use the Remote Compute Skill's Slurm troubleshooting reference for scheduler
status and cancellation problems; do not make enabling accounting the only recovery path or assume
the user has administrator privileges.
The environment, package caches, images, and activation file are user-managed durable resources,