Upgrading sword

This happened, so I leave this page here only for reference.

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 finding somewhere big enough to back /sharedscratch up to, and a very long restore of /home and /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
  • The out-of-date trial compilers (Absoft, Lahey)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
  • CADPAC
  • MPI-CH/PGI (needed for castepexe compiles)
• Software I am not sure about
  • ifc

If anyone has things they'd like to see on sword this would be the place to ask for them.