Transition to CentOS 6

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GPC OS switch

The default operating system of the GPC has been upgraded from CentOS 5 to CentOS 6. The switch occured on Monday December 5th 2011 at noon. It is possible to specifically request the old OS for at least 2 weeks after the switchover (see below) but only a small subset of such nodes will be available.

This upgrade includes updates to other programs/modules, and will mean that you will have to recompile your code, if you have not done so already.

Transition

  • The development nodes gpc01-4 are running CentOS 6
  • The development nodes gpc05-6 are running CentOS 5
  • Make sure the right modules are loaded, as they likely will have changed in the upgrade.
  • Recompile your code (don't forget a "make clean" or equivalent).
  • Submit jobs without any "os=" flag; the CentOS 6 operating system is now the default.
  • Submit jobs to the centos53 compute nodes using an extra flag "os=centos53computeA" in the "-l" argument, i.e.
 -l nodes=2:ppn=8,walltime=1:00:00,os=centos53computeA

To make your .bashrc work for both versions of CentOS during the transition, check out the example .bashrc on the wiki page http://wiki.scinet.utoronto.ca/wiki/index.php/Important_.bashrc_guidelines on how to distiguish the two OSes.

Modules

Note that most modules that were available under the CentOS 5 are available with CentOS 6, but often their version numbers have changed. Use "module avail" on the centos6 devel nodes to see what module are available, or check the wiki page http://wiki.scinet.utoronto.ca/wiki/index.php/Software_and_Libraries. Let us know if there is anything that is not working as it should, or if there are modules that you need which are missing.


CentOS 5 Phase-out

The CentOS 5 nodes will be phased out by mid-January at the latest.

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