[Cloud_Announce] Cloud Server Upgrade, Software Changes

[Engineering Cloud Cluster Announcement List]

In the next few weeks, we will be updating cloud.seas.wustl.edu to match the OS revision of the Cloud nodes themselves, as well as updating the version of Grid Engine used.

If you have critical jobs planned for May, let us know now!

We will give 1 week of notice for the planned switchover, at which point running jobs may be killed or abandoned.

If you have any ideas or requests, please let us know!


List of Changes (Not in effect until after the switch):

* Module software package system: See http://clusters.engineering.wustl.edu/index.php/Modules for information and instructions.

* The Parallel Environments mpi,mpich2_gnu, and openmpi are all subsumed under the PE "mpi-hydra".

* OpenMPI will be updated to 1.6.4

* MPICH will be updated to 3.0.3

* Comsol 3.5A and 4.0 will be removed (leaving 4.2 and 4.3A)

* /cluster/cloud/R will be removed, in favor of the R installed with the systems (2.15)

Thanks!

Mark Bober