The scheduled maintenance of the fimm cluster is now (mostly) complete. Please note the following changes:
- Cluster is now running Rocks 4.3 which is based on CentOS 4.5
- Login to fimm.bccs.uib.no now ends up on one of the compute nodes acting as a login node. Currently this is called compute-1-14.
- Compilers are upgraded to Intel 10.0 and PGI 7.0
- Totalview is upgraded to 8.2
- MPI libraries are upgraded and located in /local
- Several libraries and programs in /local is upgraded
All jobs that were waiting on the old queue need to be submitted again into the new queue after the upgrade.
Send questions to support-uib@notur.no
Software
Matlab upgraded on fimm
Matlab on fimm is upgraded from R14-sp3 to R2007a.
/local/bin/matlab should be used and is now pointing to the new release.
Questions and problems should be sent to support-uib@notur.no
/local/bin/matlab should be used and is now pointing to the new release.
Questions and problems should be sent to support-uib@notur.no
fimm maintenance upgrade to Rocks 4.1 (CentOS 4.3)
fimm will be upgraded to Rocks 4.1 (CentOS Linux 4.3).
More updates to follow.
Update 11:30: fimm is now back online. We had some trouble with the cpu-accounting "qbank" program.
More updates to follow.
Update 11:30: fimm is now back online. We had some trouble with the cpu-accounting "qbank" program.
Totalview upgrade on fimm
Totalview upgraded from 7.1 to 7.2 on fimm
bjerknes fileserver bregne down for os upgrade
bregne will be upgraded to centos 4. During this upgrade /net/bjerknes1 will be unavailable till approx. 13:00.
13:10 Update: The upgrade is complete and filesystem is back.
13:10 Update: The upgrade is complete and filesystem is back.
Software update on backup server (jambu)
The backup server has been updated with latest OS-maintenance release for AIX (5200-08) and latest tape-device drivers. In addition TSM backup server was updated to version 5.2.7 and TSM client to version 5.2.4. Downtime for restore and /net/bcmhsm (/migrate for Bjerknes) was only a few minutes during reboot.
Rebalancing of /work and /home/fimm on fimm
The GPFS filesystems /work and /home/fimm on fimm has become unbalanced. The needed filesystem-balancing was started last night and is still running. It will increase the IO load untill finished - hopefully sometime later today.
Matlab upgrade
Matlab on fimm upgraded to version 7.1.0.183 (R14) Service Pack 3
Fire cluster upgraded to Rocks 4.1 OS
Fire cluster upgraded to Rocks 4.1 OS. It was therefore unavailable from 13:00 to 17:00 (no users were currently using fire, and no jobs were running).
Vim updated to version 6.4 on tre
Vim was updated to version 6.4 on tre (run "vim --version" to check which version you use).