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
The Qlustar releases 13.0.2, 12.0.2.2 and 11.0.1.21 are ready including
a number of security/bug fixes and improvements. Please check the
following web pages for details about security fixes and special update
instructions:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0325231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0325232
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included:
For Qlustar 13 only:
- Update to MLNX OFED 5.8-2.0.3.0
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0 only:
- Update to QluMan 13.1.0
- Update Nvidia drivers to 525.89.02
The Qlustar releases 13.0.1, 12.0.2.1 and 11.0.1.20 are ready including
a number of security/bug fixes and improvements. Please check the
following web pages for details about security fixes and special update
instructions:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0216231https://qlustar.com/qsa/2023/0216232
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included:
For Qlustar 13 only:
- Update to MLNX OFED 5.8-1.1.2.1
For Qlustar 13 and 12.0 only:
- Update to QluMan 13.0.4
- Update to Lustre 2.15.2
- Update to ZFS 2.1.9
The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Qlustar 13 for download [1]. It updates Qlustar's core platform to
current Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The AlmaLinux [2] edge platform remains based
on 8.6 while CentOS 7 [3] is still supported via Qlustar 12 images and
the new cross-version compatibility.
The highlights of this release are the addition of BMC hardware
management via IPMI/Redfish in QluMan, the integration of Spack as the
new HPC package manager and the cross-version compatibility between
Qlustar releases.
QluMan's new *BMC hardware management* support allows for BMC
authentification management, power control of nodes via IPMI or Redfish,
the display of BIOS settings as well as their validation and
correction. A cumulative problem report showing an overview of cluster
node misconfigurations has also been added to QluMan.
Spack [4] has been introduced as the new package manager for HPC related
application software beyond the so-called *Qlustar HPC core stack*. It
offers a huge list of supported software packages and by design provides
hardware optimized versions of them.
The HPC core stack is a new component definition within Qlustar and is
related to the introduction of Spack. Rather than aiming to provide as
much HPC functionality as possible by OS packages (debs/rpms), the HPC
core stack now makes a clear cut between Qlustar related system software
which remains provided as OS packages and HPC application software.
Starting with this release, *cross-version compatibility* between the
current and the previous Qlustar release has been added. In practice
this means, that on a cluster with a Qlustar 13 head-node you can still
run nodes with Qlustar 12 images/chroots and vice versa. This new
feature was added to allow even smoother release upgrades.
Highlights among the various *major component updates* include Kernel
5.15.x, Slurm 22.05.x, Lustre 2.15.1, ZFS 2.1.6 and BeeGFS 7.3.2. Please
read the release notes [5] for more details.
[1] https://qlustar.com/download/
[2] https://almalinux.org/
[3] https://www.centos.org/
[4] https://spack.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
[5] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/13/ClusterOS/release-notes.html
The Qlustar releases 12.0.2.0-b556f1460 and 11.0.1.19-b549f1462 are ready
including a number of security/bug fixes and improvements. Please check
the following web pages for details about security fixes and special
update instructions:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2022/1219221https://qlustar.com/qsa/2022/1219222
The following non-security related updates/enhancements/bug fixes are included:
For 12.0 only:
- Update to QluMan 13.0.2 (check the upcoming Qlustar 13 release notes
for a description of new features)
- Update Nvidia drivers to 515.86.01
- Update to pmix 4.1.2
- Update to slurm 22.05.6
- Update to ucx 1.13.0
- Update to ZFS 2.1.6
The Qlustar releases 12.0.1.1-b548f1445 and 11.0.1.18-b549f1444 are ready
including a number of security/bug fixes and improvements. Please check
the following web pages for details about security fixes and special
update instructions:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2022/1029221https://qlustar.com/qsa/2022/1029222
The Qlustar releases 12.0.1.0-b548f1441 and 11.0.1.17-b549f1440 are ready
including a number of security/bug fixes and improvements. Please check
the following web pages for details about security fixes and special
update instructions:
https://qlustar.com/qsa/2022/0808221https://qlustar.com/qsa/2022/0808222
The following non-security related enhancements/bug fixes are included:
For 12.0 only:
- Update to QluMan 12.0.7.5
- Update Nvidia drivers to 515.65.01 (fixes CVE-2022-31607,
CVE-2022-31608, CVE-2022-31615)
- Update to ZFS 2.1.5
- Added Lustre 2.15