Dear all,
The maintenance is now over ! And you can use Baobab again.
What is new on Baobab and what kept us busy during this maintenance :
- Slurm 20 : update from Slurm 19.05.7 to Slurm 20.02.4
- Slurm Trackable resources (TRES) support. This allows a more flexible use of GPUs, enabling new options for your jobs such are --gpus-per-node, --gpus-per-task, etc.
- Slurm daemon and database now entirely migrated on CentOS7
- HDF5 plugin for Slurm (SLURM - monitor resources during job - #3 by Luca.Capello)
- New software installed: HDFView/2.14-System-Java-centos7 (New software installed: HDFView/2.14-System-Java-centos7)
- Introduction of a “Health check” script that should help us detect performance problems on nodes
- Security patches and recommended updates on all servers and compute nodes
- Reinstallation of all the compute nodes
Please also note that no pending jobs have been lost during this maintenance, despite what was announced :
I forgot in the first announcement that there will be a fundamental
change in the Slurm configuration which will cause the lost of all
PENDING jobs.
We will now keep working on the installation of Yggdrasil and we will keep you posted when it will be open for tests (we hope in the coming weeks) !
We wish you all the best,
Massimo, for The HPC team