[Beowulf] [External] CentOS 8 with OpenHPC 1.3.9 available on Qlustar

[Roland Fehrenbacher]

>>>>> "P" == Prentice Bisbal via Beowulf <beowulf at beowulf.org> writes:

    P> I think you mean Slurm 18.08.x

Of course. Don't know where I got the 10 from :) Thanks for mentioning.

    P> On 4/17/20 10:35 AM, Roland Fehrenbacher wrote:
    >> Hi all,
    >>
    >> CentOS 8 support is now available as a third Qlustar
    >> edge-platform and was published together with the latest security
    >> updates. It comes with the same functionality as our CentOS 7
    >> port which includes out of the box OpenHPC 1.3.9 integration,
    >> Slurm 18.10.x, up-to-date Nvidia 340.x drivers, Lustre client and
    >> BeeGFS client. See
    >> https://qlustar.com/news/centos-8-support-has-arrived for more
    >> details.
    >>
    >> With this addition you now have the option to smoothly update
    >> your nodes to CentOS 8 within hours and/or have a CentOS 7/8
    >> mixture for a transition phase. Once OpenHPC 2.0 will be ready,
    >> there will be an easy upgrade path to it.
    >>
    >> Enjoy,
    >>
    >> Roland
    >>
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