The Qlustar release 13.1.1 is ready including a fix for the recently
discovered Looney Tunables bug. Please check the following web page for
more details:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/1005231
The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the availability of the HPC
Core Stack 23.09 for Qlustar 13. It was published together with the
latest security bug fix update and can be installed by updating the
Qlustar 13 chroots on the cluster,
The HPC CORE STACK [1] was introduced with the release of Qlustar 13
as a new component definition within Qlustar. It is related to the
introduction of Spack.
This release includes the following individual major HPC core stack
component updates:
- Spack version 0.20.1 [2]
- Slurm version 23.02.5 [3]
- RDMA-Core version 47.0 [4]
- HWloc version 2.9.3 [5]
- UCX version 1.14.1 [6]
The new version of Spack allows easy and direct access to the most
recent compilers, MPIs and hundreds of other applications relevant to
HPC.
Minor version updates for other Qlustar 13 components are also
included, in particular Lustre (2.15.3), ZFS (2.1.12) and the Nvidia
graphics driver (535.104.05).
[1] https://qlustar.com/about-qlustar/hpc-core-stack
[2] https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[3] https://www.schedmd.com//overview.html
[4] https://github.com/linux-rdma/rdma-core
[5] https://www.open-mpi.org/projects/hwloc/
[6] https://openucx.org/
The Qlustar releases 13.1.0 and 12.0.3.0 are ready including
a number of security/bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for
details about security fixes and special update instructions:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0929231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0929232
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are
included:
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0:
- Update to QluMan 13.3.3
For Qlustar 13 only:
- Add a new containers image module (details to be announced separately)
- Qlustar HPC Core Stack 09/23 update (details to be announced
separately)