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| + | * 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 |
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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 (ssh will still work though) |
+ | * Use rsh internally for consistency with the parallel clusters (ssh will still work though) |
* I have a [http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/IT/servers/sword/packages.txt list of suse packages for sword] . |
* I have a [http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/IT/servers/sword/packages.txt list of suse packages for sword] . |
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* Make modules compulsory |
* Make modules compulsory |
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* Do network installs for the compute nodes |
* Do network installs for the compute nodes |
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| − | * Software to be removed: |
+ | * Software to be removed because it's not supported or no one wants it: |
** GAMESS-US |
** GAMESS-US |
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** PGI 4.0 |
** PGI 4.0 |
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** BLACS |
** BLACS |
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** ScaLAPACK |
** ScaLAPACK |
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| − | ** Most of the MPI libraries |
+ | ** Most of the MPI libraries |
| + | ** The out-of-date trial compilers (Absoft, Lahey) |
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| + | * Software to keep |
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| + | ** ifort in all its versions |
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| + | ** icc in all its versions |
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| + | ** Portland 5.0 up |
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| + | ** Nag f95 (this will need upgrading so it won't be exactly the same) |
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| + | ** Dalton |
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| + | ** FFTW 3 and 2 |
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| + | ** CADPAC |
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| + | ** MPI-CH/PGI (needed for castepexe compiles) |
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| + | * Software I am not sure about |
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| + | ** ifc |
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| − | If anyone has things they'd like to see on sword this would be the place to ask for them. |
+ | If anyone has things they'd like to see on sword this would be the place to ask for them. |
Latest revision as of 18:13, 5 December 2006
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.