# Using Julia on campus computers w cloud file storage

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**Category:** General Usage\
**Created:** [July 31, 2017, 7:55pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-julia-on-campus-computers-w-cloud-file-storage/5157 "2017-07-31T19:55:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 1, 2017, 5:44am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/using-julia-on-campus-computers-w-cloud-file-storage/5157/4 "2017-08-01T05:44:13Z")

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When using cloud storage to host the Julia package directory, you might run into similar problems as recently discussed in this thread:

> [@Julia Hangs After Attempt at Pkg.add("") in Linux Cluster](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/julia-hangs-after-attempt-at-pkg-add-in-linux-cluster/4320):
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> Hi all, I’m not new to Julia, but I’m certainly new to running it in a Linux cluster. I’m a neuroscientist and recently needed to run some computation heavy simulations written in Julia in my school’s Linux cluster. The cluster didn’t have Julia available as a module, so I had to download the 64-bit Linux binary to my personal environment in the cluster. From Julia’s command line interface in the cluster, I attempted to run Pkg.add(“Plots”) To my surprise, there was no print output from Juli…

Because I guess cloud storage has similar (or worse) latency as NFS, which makes operating on many small files, like git does, painfully slow. One solution that was suggested in that thread is to use this package

> **[GitHub - KristofferC/Pkg25.jl](https://github.com/KristofferC/Pkg25.jl)**
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> Contribute to KristofferC/Pkg25.jl development by creating an account on GitHub.

for speeding up the `Pkg` operations. Though personally I haven’t tried that out.

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