Detecting the HPC environment

[tjhunter]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.

We need a script that detects the right HPC environment to point to the appropriate configuration files.

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[grassesi]

It should be possible to detect the hpc-platform by using the hostname command

[clessig]

It should be possible to detect the hpc-platform by using the hostname command

Great! Can we use this to appropriately set the env variables, e.g. for the paths?

[grassesi]

sure, I would suggest to bundle up all that information into a file together with a regex or something similar that can be matched against the hostname output. This way all platform information is self contained/describing

[tjhunter]

I would have a script for that, rather than manipulating the environment. Such manipulation tends to break with process forking, venvs and slurm.

[clessig]

I think this should go to the private repo since it's specific to the machines we are currently working on. If there's a great way to do it through the pyproject.toml, which is full transparent to the user, then I might be convinced otherwise.