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Sword needs an upgrade. I'd like to move it to SuSE 9.3. The [[Upgrading_destiny|destiny upgrade]] went OK, which was effectively a trial run for upgrading sword. Here are my current plans for sword: |
Sword needs an upgrade. I'd like to move it to SuSE 9.3. The [[Upgrading_destiny|destiny upgrade]] went OK, which was effectively a trial run for upgrading sword. Here are my current plans for sword: |
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| + | * Repartition the disks to redistribute space between system partitions. Means a very long restore of /home and possibly /sharedscratch after the upgrade |
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* Remove the MPI queues. MPI should be done on [http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/IT/servers/athens/ Athens] or the group servers |
* Remove the MPI queues. MPI should be done on [http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/IT/servers/athens/ Athens] or the group servers |
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* Use rsh internally for consistency with the parallel clusters (ssh will still work though) |
* Use rsh internally for consistency with the parallel clusters (ssh will still work though) |
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Revision as of 15:43, 27 April 2006
Sword needs an upgrade. I'd like to move it to SuSE 9.3. The destiny upgrade went OK, which was effectively a trial run for upgrading sword. Here are my current plans for sword:
- Repartition the disks to redistribute space between system partitions. Means a very long restore of /home and possibly /sharedscratch after the upgrade
- Remove the MPI queues. MPI should be done on Athens or the group servers
- Use rsh internally for consistency with the parallel clusters (ssh will still work though)
- I have a list of suse packages for sword .
- Make modules compulsory
- Do network installs for the compute nodes
- Software to be removed because it's not supported or no one wants it:
- GAMESS-US
- PGI 4.0
- gcc 3.2
- BLACS
- ScaLAPACK
- Most of the MPI libraries (may need to keep some for compiling purposes)
- The out-of-date trial compilers (Absoft, Lahey)
- Software to keep
- ifort in all its versions
- icc in all its versions
- Portland 5.0 up
- Nag f95 (this will need upgrading so it won't be exactly the same)
- Dalton
- FFTW 3 and 2
- Software I am not sure about
- ifc
- CADPAC
If anyone has things they'd like to see on sword this would be the place to ask for them.