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duan_jandClaude Fable 5 f6c2f5a650 Drop careless-gpu: the [cuda] pip extra install covers GPU and CPU nodes
The installed careless/0.5.4 venv already contains the NVIDIA wheels
([cuda] extra), which need only the node driver and fall back to CPU,
so a separate GPU module and cuda module dep are unnecessary. Revert
careless/build to careless[cuda] to match the actual install.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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# careless
Scaling and merging of X-ray diffraction data with approximate Bayesian
inference (variational merging), built on TensorFlow.
- Upstream: https://github.com/rs-station/careless
- License: MIT
## How it is built
Upstream recommends a fresh conda env, but repo.anaconda.com is not
reachable from Ra, so the build uses uv instead: it fetches a standalone
Python 3.12 into `$PREFIX/python` (upstream supports >=3.9,<3.13), creates
`$PREFIX/venv`, and runs `uv pip install careless[cuda]==<version>` into
it. The `[cuda]` extra ships the NVIDIA libraries (CUDA, cuDNN, ...) as
pip wheels, so the one install uses the GPU on GPU nodes (only the node's
NVIDIA driver is needed — no cuda module) and falls back to CPU elsewhere.
`uv` must be on PATH on the build host (e.g. `pip install --user uv`).
Loading the module puts the venv's `bin/` on `PATH` (the `careless`
command is directly available, no activation needed) and sets
`CARELESS_ENV` to the venv path.
## Adding a new version
Add the version under `versions:` in `files/config.yaml`, then on a Ra
login node: `modbuild build <version>` (modbuild/2.1.2).