The Qlustar releases 13.1.3 and 12.0.3.2 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/2023/1215231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/1215232
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are
included:
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0:
- Update to QluMan 13.4.7
- Update to Slurm 23.02.7
The Qlustar releases 13.1.2 and 12.0.3.1 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/2023/1209231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/1209232https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/1209233
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are
included:
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0:
- Update to QluMan 13.4.6
- Update to Slurm 23.0.6
For Qlustar 13 only:
- Update to AlmaLinux 8.9
- Update to ZFS 2.1.14 (fixes a critical bug preventing data corruption)
- Update to Nvidia graphics drivers 535.113.01
- Add support for current openfoam (.com and .org) versions in spack
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)
The Qlustar releases 13.0.6 and 12.0.2.6 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/2023/0726231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0726232
On the Qlustar Ubuntu platforms, this update includes a kernel
mitigation for the Zenbleed security bug found on Zen2 AMD CPUs. Please
note that no such fix is available on RHEL 7/8 compatible platforms
(CentOS 7 / AlmaLinux 8 on Qlustar) at this stage.
The Qlustar releases 13.0.5 and 12.0.2.5 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/2023/0629231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0629232https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0629233
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are
included:
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0:
- Update to QluMan 13.2.1
- Fix a file descriptor leak affecting qluman-execd
- Add libnvidia-container to the NVIDIA image module
A number of new Qlustar features were completed recently and published
together with the latest security updates.
Version 13.2.0 further improves QluMan with the addition of:
- An informative HOST OVERVIEW TABLE [1]. It provides a tabular
overview of all the hosts in a cluster split by networks. Tabs at
the top allow to select the network one is interested in. In each
tab, the IP ranges allocated in the chosen network are shown at the
top and a list of hosts with their most important config parameters
below. An on-the-fly string/regex filter can be applied to the lists
restricting the view to the hosts matched.
- New GUI options to fine-tune the LDAP PASSWORD POLICY [2]. This
makes it easy to control user password quality and protection
against brute-force attacks with appropriate settings.
- The possibility to ASSIGN A LUSTRE LNET NAME [3] to the network
adapters of nodes and generate a new config file to bring up LNet
during boot of Lustre nodes.
- The automatic creation of a new configuration file during boot that
lists a node's QluMan Generic Properties and their values. This
allows to use freely definable Generic Properties as a general
key/value store in customization scripts on Qlustar nodes.
AlmaLinux was updated to version 8.8 with this release.
[1]
https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/13/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/Adding-Hosts.htm…
[2]
https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/13/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/components/ldap.…
[3]
https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/13/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/Cluster-Network-…
The Qlustar releases 13.0.4, 12.0.2.4 and 11.0.1.23 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/2023/0614231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0614232
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are
included:
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0 only:
- Update to QluMan 13.2.0
For Qlustar 13 only:
- Update to AlmaLinux 8.8