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[Qlustar-Announce] Security/Bug fix releases 12.0.0.1-b528f1339 / 11.0.1.5-b527f1338/40
by General announcements about Qlustar 20 Jan '21

20 Jan '21

The Qlustar releases 12.0.0.1-b528f1339 and 11.0.1.5-b527f1338/40 are ready including a number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0118211-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0118212-security-update-bundle https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0118213-security-update-bundle The following non-security related enhancements/bug fixes are included: Both 11.0 and 12.0 update to - The latest Nvidia graphics drivers 460.32.03 supporting recently introduced Nvidia hardware. - The latest ZFS 0.8.6 fixing a memory management bug. Fixes for 12.0 only: - QluMan 12.0.0.39 * Detect IB nics with names other than ib[0-9] * Fix preserving minimized/maximized state for windows * Fix cloning of "Network FS Mounts" configs * Fix kernel options editor for "Network FS Mounts" configs

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[Qlustar-Announce] Happy new year with Qlustar 12
by General announcements about Qlustar 09 Jan '21

09 Jan '21

The Qlustar team wishes you all the best for the new year and is pleased to announce the immediate availability of Qlustar 12.0.0 for download [1]. It updates Qlustar's core platform to current Ubuntu 20.04 LTS. The CentOS [2] edge platforms remain based on 7.9 (with integrated OpenHPC [3] 1.3.9) and 8.3 (OpenHPC 2). The highlight of this release is the move to LDAP as the user and group name service, replacing the NIS setup used earlier. A fully configured LDAP instance is created at installation time. Net-boot nodes may directly authenticate users against this instance or use conveniently synced flat passwd/group files when scalability is critical. QluMan has a new optional component [4] to manage the Qlustar LDAP instance. It consists of a User and Group Management interface, as well as a powerful tool to import users/groups from passwd-like flat files. The second major new QluMan feature is the ability for easy and clean integration of external LDAP or Active Directory services with the new Nameservice Providers [5] and Nameservice Configs [6] dialogs. Finally, the QluMan GUI has been ported to the current QT 5 toolkit. This was a huge 'under the hood' effort that ensures the long-term maintainability of QluMan and also improves its stability. Highlights among the various major component updates include Kernel 5.4.x, Slurm 20.02.x, CUDA 11.0, ZFS 0.8.5 and BeeGFS 7.2. Please read the release notes [7] for more details. [1] https://www.qlustar.com/download [2] https://www.centos.org/ [3] https://openhpc.community/ [4] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/12.0/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/components/lda… [5] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/12.0/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/Cluster-Networ… [6] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/12.0/ClusterOS/qluman-guide/Config-Classes… [7] https://docs.qlustar.com/Qlustar/12.0/ClusterOS/release-notes.html

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[Qlustar-Announce] OpenHPC 2.0/CentOS 8.3 on Qlustar 11
by General announcements about Qlustar 22 Dec '20

22 Dec '20

The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of OpenHPC 2.0 [1] on top of CentOS 8.3 as an update to Qlustar 11. You can migrate your existing images and chroots to this new release in the usual way [1]. New ones can be generated via QluMan. Note that the disappearance of CentOS [3] as we knew it in the past, will not have a negative impact on Qlustar users running CentOS based nodes. There will be a simple migration path to whatever new RHEL compatible distribution will turn out to be the best choice at the end of 2021. Migration will involve nothing more than a usual Qlustar security update. [1] https://openhpc.community/openhpc-2-0-released/ [2] https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/Administ… [3] https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/

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[Qlustar-Announce] Security/Bug fix releases 11.0.1.4-b522f1319/21 / 10.1.1.17-b521f1318
by General announcements about Qlustar 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

The Qlustar releases 11.0.1.4-b522f1319/21 and 10.1.1.17-b521f1318 are ready including a number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-1126201-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-1126202-security-update-bundle This release also includes the following version updates: - Centos 7 version is now 7.9 - ZFS version is now 0.8.5

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[Qlustar-Announce] Security/Bug fix releases 11.0.1.3-b522f1314 / 10.1.1.16-b521f1313
by General announcements about Qlustar 10 Oct '20

10 Oct '20

The Qlustar releases 11.0.1.3-b522f1314 and 10.1.1.16-b521f1313 are ready including a number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-1009201-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-1009202-security-update-bundle

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[Qlustar-Announce] Security/Bug fix releases 11.0.1.2-b522f1305 / 10.1.1.15-b521f1304
by General announcements about Qlustar 22 Aug '20

22 Aug '20

The Qlustar releases 11.0.1.2-b522f1305 and 10.1.1.15-b521f1304 are ready including a number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0821201-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0821202-security-update-bundle The following non-security related enhancements/bug fixes are included: + Fixes - The package openmpi-bin was not installable. This is fixed in an updated version.

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[Qlustar-Announce] Security/Bug fix releases 11.0.1.1-b519f1302 / 10.1.1.14-b521f1301
by General announcements about Qlustar 16 Jul '20

16 Jul '20

The Qlustar releases 11.0.1.1-b519f1302 and 10.1.1.14-b521f1301 are ready including a number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0715201-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0715202-security-update-bundle The following non-security related enhancements/bug fixes are included: * Qlustar 11.0.1.1-b519f1302 updates to/adds + the latest Lustre LTS release 2.12.5 + the latest Nvidia graphics drivers 440.100 supporting recently introduced Nvidia hardware + Several Nvidia GPU metrics (temperature, load, fan) were added to Ganglia + Fixes - QluMan > Improve slurm job information updates on busy head-nodes > Allow multiple networks for external hosts in Filesystem Mounts > Fix exceptions when editing properties - GPU detection (possibly missing /dev/nvidia-uvm on hardware with many GPUs) - NIS was failing in certain situations due to wrong /etc/hosts

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[Qlustar-Announce] 11.0.1 adds UEFI support and CentOS 7.8
by General announcements about Qlustar 03 Jun '20

03 Jun '20

The Qlustar team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Qlustar 11.0.1 for download [1]. This minor release has two new features: a) Full UEFI support for the Qlustar installer and PXE booting of nodes. b) The move to CentOS 7.8 as the new supported minor CentOS 7 version. The Qlustar installer now transparently supports installation on legacy PC BIOS hardware as well as machines running under UEFI. If you have the choice, we recommend using the UEFI mode on your hardware. Our PXE booting mechanism has been doubly revamped: Firstly, we use GRUB as the boot loader now per default and secondly, we fully support UEFI based hardware transparently. So it will not matter whether your hardware runs under UEFI or PC BIOS, it should just boot fine, once registered correctly under QluMan. Reverting to booting with PXELINUX on PC BIOS machines is supported if needed/desired. Please follow the special update instructions [2] of the latest security announcements when updating and if you use QluMan singularity images, make sure you download [3] the latest version. This is the last feature addition to Qlustar 11. We now work at full steam on the Qlustar 12 release based on Ubuntu 20.04 and scheduled for some time later this year. [1] https://www.qlustar.com/download [2] https://www.qlustar.com/news/qsa-0527201-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities [3] https://www.qlustar.com/download

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[Qlustar-Announce] Security/Bug fix releases 11.0.1.0-b519f1296 / 10.1.1.13-b521f1295
by General announcements about Qlustar 30 May '20

30 May '20

The Qlustar releases 11.0.1.0-b519f1296 and 10.1.1.13-b521f1295 are ready including a number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages for details about security fixes and special update instructions: https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0527201-linux-kernel-vulnerabilities https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0527202-security-update-bundle

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[Qlustar-Announce] CentOS 8 support has arrived
by General announcements about Qlustar 17 Apr '20

17 Apr '20

CentOS 8 support is now available as a third Qlustar edge-platform and was published together with the latest security updates. It comes with the same functionality as our CentOS 7 port which includes out of the box OpenHPC 1.3.9 integration, Slurm 18.10.x, up-to-date Nvidia 340.x drivers, Lustre client and BeeGFS client. Making your compute nodes switch to CentOS 8 on an existing Qlustar cluster installation is extremely simple: First create a CentOS 8 chroot [1] optionally adding OpenHPC base support, then generate a CentOS 8 OS image [2] selecting the modules you require and finally a boot config [3] using the just generated image. After assigning [4] this boot config to the nodes you want to run it on, you just need to reboot them and voilà your CentOS 8 nodes are ready to be used. Note that OpenHPC 1.3.9 was originally built for CentOS 7.7. We had to make a few adjustments to make the OpenHPC parts relevant to Qlustar (compilers, MPIs, library packages and applications) work for CentOS 8. The OpenHPC test-suite was run successfully against these components. Once OpenHPC 2.0 will be out, we'll publish instructions to update to it. This will be straightforward. Additional improvements with this release: Updates to the latest Lustre 2.12.4 LTS release and the newest Nvidia graphics drivers 340.64 adding support for the latest Nvidia GPUs. These two updates apply to all Qlustar 11.0 platforms (Ubuntu 18.04 and CentOS 7/8). [1] https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/QluMan_G… [2] https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/QluMan_G… [3] https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/QluMan_G… [4] https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/11.0/html-single/QluMan_G…

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