Helix/ChangeLog

2024-10-01 Maintenance

Hardware

• All firmware versions on all components were upgraded.

Operating system

• The operating system was upgraded from RHEL 8.8 to RHEL 8.10 -> We recommend to re-compile all applications after the upgrade.

Batch system

• The Slurm version was upgraded to version 24.05

Storage

• Storage Scale client was updated to 5.1.9.

Graphics stack

• The NVIDIA driver was upgraded to 560.35
• CUDA 12.2 is now the default version, 12.6 is available <--- Modul ??
• NVIDIA toolkit: default is now 23.9 <--- Modul ?

Software modules

• devel/cuda/12.6 is provided as new default version
• mpi/openmpi/4.1 modules were updated from 4.1.4 to 4.1.6