Upgrade in January, 2025
2025-01-20
The major software upgrade in January 19-20, 2025 may affect some users. If you come across any problems review the change list below and other pages on this site. If you did not find a solution contact the administrator for an advice.
- New headnode
emerald
with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6. Previous headnode wasdesert
with SLE-HPC 15 SP4. - New operating system on compute nodes SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 15 SP6, previously SLE-HPC 15 SP4.
- Slurm workload manger was updated from version 22.05.5 to 23.02.7.
- New Intel oneAPI compilers and OpenHPC packages are installed. Older versions were preserved, but new versions may be used if exact version is not specified.
- User crontab files were migrated from
desert
toemerald
. - Previous headnode was
desert
was not upgraded and will be retired in coming weeks. - Auxiliary server
coral
is disabled. - New network aliases added:
head.hpc
for the current headnode andslurm.hpc
for Slurm server. Please, change old headnode namedesert
to new nameshead
orslurm
in your scripts. - New disk /home/data was added.