While OSC has upgraded the Pitzer cluster to RHEL 9, you may encounter difficulties when migrating jobs from RHEL 7 to the new system. To help you continue your research, we provide a containerized RHEL 7 environment on Pitzer RHEL 9. This container replicates the original RHEL 7 system and software environment used on Pitzer.
Important: Multi-node MPI jobs are not supported in this containerized environment due to incompatibilities between the host and the container.
Reusing Job Scripts
If you have an existing job script that previously worked on Pitzer RHEL 7 (e.g., my_rhel7_job.sh), you can run it on the RHEL 9 system using the following command after starting an interactive job:
/apps/share/tools/rhel7_wrapper.sh ./my_rhel7_job.sh
If your job requires GPUs, append the --nv option:
/apps/share/tools/rhel7_wrapper.sh --nv ./my_rhel7_job.sh
Note: The SLURM version inside the container is not compatible with the host system. Therefore, any SLURM-specific commands in your job script (such as srun or sbcast) will not work. You should replace them with alternatives like mpirun/mpiexec and cp, respectively.
You can also include the commands above in a batch job.
Working Interactively in the RHEL 7 Environment
In some cases, you may need to recompile your program within the RHEL 7 environment. You can either use the job script mentioned above or launch an interactive container shell session after starting an interactive job:
/apps/share/tools/rhel7_shell.sh
Once inside the container shell, initialize the RHEL 7 environment by running:
source /etc/profile.d/lmod.sh source /etc/profile.d/z00_StdEnv.sh module rm xalt
You can verify that the RHEL 7 environment is properly set up by running:
module list
