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If you’re using the theano library, you need to tell theano to store compiled code on the local disk on the compute node. Create a file ~/.theanorc with the contents

[global]
base_compiledir=/tmp/%(user)s/theano

Also make sure that in your batch job script you create this directory before you launch theano. E.g.

mkdir -p /tmp/${USER}/theano

The problem is that by default the base_compiledir is in your home directory (~/.theano/), and then if you first happen to run a job on a newer processor, a later job that happens to run on an older processor will crash with an “Illegal instruction” error.