BwUniCluster2.0/Maintenance/2024-05

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The following changes were introduced during the maintenance interval between on 21.05.2024 (Tuesday) 08:30 and 24.05.2024 (Friday) 15:00.

We are not planning to change the host key of the system. You should not receive any warnings by your SSH client(s), but if there should be a warning or if you want to check that you are connecting to the correct system, you can verify the key hashes using the following list:

Algorithm Hash (SHA256) Hash (MD5)
RSA p6Ion2YKZr5cnzf6L6DS1xGnIwnC1BhLbOEmDdp7FA0 59:2a:67:44:4a:d7:89:6c:c0:0d:74:ba:3c:c4:63:6d
ECDSA k8l1JnfLf1y1Qi55IQmo11+/NZx06Rbze7akT5R7tE8 85:d4:d9:97:e0:f0:43:30:6e:66:8e:d0:b6:9b:85:d1
ED25519 yEe5nJ5hZZ1YbgieWr+phqRZKYbrV7zRe8OR3X03cn0 42:d2:0d:ab:87:48:fc:1d:5d:b3:7c:bf:22:c3:5f:b7

Hardware

  • All firmware versions on all components were upgraded.

Operating system

  • The operating system was upgraded from RHEL 8.6 EUS to RHEL 8.8 EUS. We recommend to re-compile all applications after the upgrade.
  • The Mellanox OFED InfiniBand Stack was updated.

Compilers, Libaries and Runtime Environments

  • Certain older compilers are deprecated (hidden, aka module load compiler/gnu/9.3 will only be available as module load compiler/gnu/.9.3)
  • Intel OneAPI 2023 and 2024 are now available
  • Intel parallel studio 2020 (compiler 19.1, impi 2020, mkl 2020) are deprecated

Userspace tools

Software Modules

Batch system

  • The Slurm version was upgraded to version 23.11.5

Storage

  • Lustre client, BeeGFS client and Spectrum Scale client were updated.

Graphics stack

  • The NVIDIA driver was upgraded to 550.54.15
  • CUDA 12.2 is now the default version, 12.4 is available
  • NVIDIA toolkit: default is now 23.9

Containers

JupyterHub

  • Jupyterhub was upgraded to 4.1.3