Setup

1. Additionally needed Python modules need to be added locally, i.e. into $HOME. To install iPython we must:
   • mkdir local
   • vi .bashrc to add export PYTHONPATH=$HOME/local/lib/python2.6/site-packages
   • source .bashrc
   • python -measy_install --prefix $HOME/local ipython
   • python -measy_install --prefix $HOME/local tornado
   • python -measy_install --prefix $HOME/local pyzmq

#Issues / Questions

1. The cluster does not have a web browser installed. Therefore, we can not ssh -X and use iPython notebook. This might be convenient for testing. Since the iPython server runs on 127.0.0.1:8888, it is not possible to launch the server and then access it via the connection to Matinee.

2. use -l shows that python2.7 is installed. The default that I am seeing is python2.6.6. This includs easy_install, so modules are installed into the 2.6 site-packages.

2a. Is it possible to install enthought? Do I need to push it to the cluster and install locally?