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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 [[Upgrading_destiny|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 [http://www-theor.ch.cam.ac.uk/IT/servers/athens/ Athens] or the group servers
* 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] .
* 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** The out-of-date trial compilers (Absoft, Lahey)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.

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