Upgrading sword

Sword needs an upgrade. I'd like to move it to SuSE 9.3. At the moment I'm waiting to see how the destiny upgrade goes before making any firm decisions, but here are my current plans for sword:

• Remove the MPI queues. MPI should be done on Athens or the group servers
• Use rsh internally (ssh will still work though)
• I have a list of suse packages for sword .
• Make modules compulsory
• Do network installs for the compute nodes

If anyone has things they'd like to see on sword this would be the place to ask for them.--Catherine 15:08, 28 March 2006 (BST)