The Qlustar release 10.1.1.4-b509f1240 is ready including a
number of security and a few bug fixes. Please
check the following web pages for details about security fixes:
https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0510191-linux-kernel-vulnerabilitieshttps://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0510192-security-update-bundle
The following non-security related bug fixes are included:
* A kernel bug in the fuse driver could lead to the spontaneous unmounting of
filesystems in rare conditions due to false handling of error
conditions. This was fixed by the Q-Leap kernel team.
* Support for the Intel/QLogic Infinipath adapters has been readded after it
was dropped by mistake in a previous release.
The Qlustar release 10.1.1.3-b509f1235 is ready including a
number of security and bug fixes as well as a couple of enhancements. Please
check the following web pages for details about security fixes:
https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0211191-linux-kernel-vulnerabilitieshttps://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0211192-security-update-bundle
The following non-security related enhancements/bug fixes are included:
* The Qlustar netboot process has been further improved: We now ship a dedicated
C++ based multicast-enabled image pusher 'ql-mcastd' to run on the
head-node. This fault-tolerant daemon delivers the assigned OS image
of a node to the corresponding client processes running in the further
stripped down initial RAM disk (now a mere 25MB).
There is a new config file /etc/qlustar/ql-mcastd.conf for this
daemon. It is automatically generated correctly when the DHCP config
is written.
* The nvidia image module is now based on driver version 410.104 supporting the
newest GPUs.
* Qlustar installer 10.1.1-2 was updated to run on the same kernel version as on
the finally installed system.
* QluMan has added the possibility to mass import MAC addresses for new hosts
from a file. This allows to quickly setup large numbers of compute nodes.
* QluMan fixes:
- Fix exception when opening Preferences
- Don't list initramfs as possible module
- HostTemplatesWidget: Don't allow assigning global sets to a host
template
- EnclosureView: catch KeyError when deleting from Props2Hosts
- EnclosureView: Include global template when checking host hardware
status
- CommandEditor: fix exception when moving command to group
- GPU Wizard: Fix open slurm config button
The Qlustar release 10.1.1.2-b505f1215 release is ready including a
number of security and bug fixes as well as minor enhancements. Please
check the following web pages for details about security fixes:
https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0114191-linux-kernel-vulnerabilitieshttps://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0114192-security-update-bundle
The following non-security related changes/bug fixes are included:
* Change mechanism to disable SMT (HyperThreading): Now the only supported
method is to assign the kernel parameter 'nosmt=force' in boot
configs. The previous method proved to be unstable in certain
situations due to kernel bugs.
* Update Lustre client to version 2.12.0.
* Added lustre-2.12 image module.
The Qlustar release 10.1.1.1-b505f1206 release is ready including a
number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages
for details:
https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-1212181-linux-kernel-vulnerabilitieshttps://qlustar.com/news/qsa-1212182-security-update-bundle
The following non-security related changes/bug fixes are included:
* Speed up boot process of cluster nodes
* Allow to safely disable SMT (HyperThreading)
* Update Lustre client to version 2.12 rc2. Lustre 2.11 could cause a silent
crash of lustre client machines under heavy load (Ubuntu only).
The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Qlustar 10.1.1 for download at https://qlustar.com/download. This is a
minor release within the 10.1 series. It integrates the recently
published OpenHPC [ https://openhpc.community ] 1.3.6 release into the
Qlustar CentOS platform. OpenHPC 1.3.6 ships with a gcc 8 toolchain
among other goodies.
A second major improvement is the further tuning of the Qlustar node
netboot process that cuts the size of the initial RAMdisk delivered via
tftp to a mere 35MB. This doesn't only speed up the boot process in
standard clusters, but it also makes it feasible to netboot over slow
and less reliable networks like e.g. a connection to a spaceship.
Apart from that, this release comes with a number of bug and security
fixes which were already addressed in separate security advisories as
usual at
https://www.qlustar.com/news/qsa-1129181-linux-kernel-vulnerabilitieshttps://www.qlustar.com/news/qsa-1129182-security-update-bundle
The Qlustar team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
Qlustar 10.1 for download at https://qlustar.com/download.
Adding support for CentOS 7.5 [https://www.centos.org/] as a new fully
supported edge platform, combined with the integration of OpenHPC
[https://openhpc.community], this release marks an important milestone
in Qlustar's history. Qlustar users now have the option to run the most
popular HPC platform with the same ease-of-use they're familiar with
from our Debian/Ubuntu based platform.
The second big new feature of 10.1 is a totally revamped boot
process of Qlustar nodes: QluMan 10.1 now supports downloading the OS
image via a fast and fault-tolerant multi-cast mechanism. This can
reduce boot-time dramatically and allows for simultaneous and reliable
booting of a virtually unlimited number of cluster nodes without
increasing overall boot-time.
On top of that, Qlustar OS images are now created using squashfs with
compression. This reduces the memory footprint of the OS by roughly 66%
so that a standard compute node image with slurm and IB support consumes
a mere 160MB of RAM.
Qlustar 10.1 is a feature release with its core still based on
Ubuntu/Xenial (16.04). Highlights among the various <strong>major
component updates</strong> include Kernel 4.14.x, Slurm 17.11.9.2, CUDA
9.1 and Lustre 2.11. Please read the release notes at
https://docs.qlustar.com/en-US/Qlustar_Cluster_OS/10.1/html-single/Release_…
for more details.
The Qlustar release 10.0.0.4-b484f1151 release is ready including a
number of security and bug fixes. Please check the following web pages
for details:
https://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0717181-linux-kernel-vulnerabilitieshttps://qlustar.com/news/qsa-0717182-security-update-bundle
The following non-security related bugs in QluMan are fixed:
- Fix segfault on drag&drop in ClusterConnections dialog
- Fix exception when checking for error on slurmd replies on config updates
There is a new QluMan 10.0.0 GUI singularity image at
https://qlustar.com/download as well, including the most recent
10.0.0.26 version. The same on docker hub ...