PoD Shared Installations

Anar here...

Some time ago users start to ask for a, so called, central installation or a shared installation feature.

PoD now supports both types - Private and Shared installations.

• A Private Installation - it is when a user installs PoD for individual use to his/her local folder. Any Private Installation can be used by other users as well. It's just a matter of file privileges.
• A Shared Installation - it is when a site administrator installs PoD in some central location, so it can be shared by many users. It makes it easeir for users, since they don't need to install PoD by their own. In case of a shared Installation you need to execute one additional step. All the rest is the same as with Private Installations.

Be advised, that in both cases PoD acts identically and always provides private clusters, one for each user. In case of a shared installation, users share only binaries and configurations, but each user get's its own PoD instance and can't disturb other users. 

Each user can tune PoD by using its own PoD user defaults configuration in $HOME/.PoD/PoD.cfg.

This feature is still in beta and if you like to test it or just play around, than try the latest PoD nightly: http://pod.gsi.de/releases/pod/nightly/

I am going soon to release a new version of PoD, which will include this feature, but before the release I want to finish updating User's Manual to reflect all changes and to process some more tests.

If you can test the latest PoD nightly and give some feedback, it would be great help and can speed up the release ;)