[Cloud_Announce] Cloud Upgrade: May 27th, 2013

[Engineering Cloud Cluster Announcement List]

On Monday, May 27th, 2013, the main 'cloud.seas.wustl.edu' server will be updated. The actual upgrade will take a few hours, and the nodes will be placed back into the cluster after the update.

Service is expected to be restored by the end of the working day.

***** If there are running jobs, they will be killed! *****

If this will impact a research deadline, please let me know and arrangements can be made.

Take note of the following changes!:


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