Changes to HPC systems are listed below, optionally filtered by system.
ptrace has been disabled globally across all OSC systems to mitigate a newly identified Linux kernel vulnerability.
HPC Changelog
HPC Changelog
Jobs requesting Lustre are rejected by qsub
Date:
Friday, August 15, 2014 - 11:30pm
On both production clusters, we have begun rejecting jobs that request the use of Lustre or $PFSDIR in order to reduce job failures caused by the triggering of a bug that crashes the filesystem. If you have a GPFS allocation, you may if appropriate want to move your data there in order to maintain productivity while the Lustre service is in a degraded state.
HDF5-1.8.13 Available on Oakley
Date:
Thursday, July 17, 2014 - 12:30pm
- HDF5-1.8.13 has been installed on Oakley, and is available by loading the module hdf5/1.8.13 or hdf-serial/1.8.13. Both gnu compiled version and intel compiled version are available.
- The software page for HDF5 is updated to reflect system changes.
Hyperworks 12.0 available on Oakley
Date:
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 - 2:45pm
- Hyperworks 12.0 has been installed on Oakley, and is available by loading the module hyperworks/12. State-wide access is also supported for this version.
- The software page for Hyperworks is updated to reflect system changes.
COMSOL 4.4 available on Oakley
Date:
Monday, June 2, 2014 - 1:30pm
- COMSOL 4.4 has been installed on Oakley, and is available by loading the module comsol/44.
- The software page for COMSOL is updated to reflect system changes.
LAMMPS 01Feb14 now available
Date:
Thursday, May 29, 2014 - 11:45pm
LAMMPS 01Feb14, the latest stable version, has been installed on Oakley. Access is via the lammps/01Feb14 module. For information on available executables and installed packages see the output of the command: module help lammps/01Feb14
GAMESS now available
Date:
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 4:45pm
GAMESS 1 May 2013 (R1) has been installed on Oakley and is accessible by loading the gamess module.
LS-TaSC now available Date:
Date:
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 11:00am
- LS-TaSC 3.0 has been installed on Oakley, and is available by loading the lstasc module on Oakley.
- A software page had been created for LS-TaSC with more information on this package.
LS-PrePost version update
Date:
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 11:00am
- A module lspp has been created for LS-PrePost 4.0 on Oakley, and the LS-PrePost software page has been updated to reflect the change.
SIESTA now available
Date:
Thursday, May 1, 2014 - 11:00am
- SIESTA 3.2 has been installed on Oakley, and is available by loading the siesta module for the serial package, and siesta_par module for the parallel package.
- A software page has been created that provides instructions for batch use of SIESTA on Oakley.
MATLAB Version Update
Date:
Thursday, April 24, 2014 - 11:00am
- Added the following versions of MATLAB to Oakley:
- 2013b
- 2014a
- Updated the MATLAB software page to reflect system changes.
