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Lua

Lua is a powerful, efficient, lightweight, embeddable scripting language. It supports procedural programming, object-oriented programming, functional programming, data-driven programming, and data description.

Lua is available as a module on Apocrita.

Usage

To run the default installed version of Lua, simply load the Lua module:

module load lua

then run Lua with a script file:

lua example.lua

Example job

Serial job

Here is an example job running on 1 core with 1GB RAM:

#!/bin/bash
#$ -cwd
#$ -j y
#$ -pe smp 1
#$ -l h_rt=1:0:0
#$ -l h_vmem=1G

module load lua
lua example.lua

References