wiki:Public/User_Guide/News

Version 1 (modified by Jochen Kreutz, 4 years ago) (diff)

First draft for a news page

Table of Contents

  1. User management
    1. QoS
    2. BeeGFS Quotas
  2. SW updates
  3. Network Federation Gateways
  4. DAM nodes

Latest news on the DEEP-EST prototype system

User management

QoS

  • the quality of service groups (QoS) within SLURM (determining the jobs priority) are currently being re-organized with regards to the accounting introduced with the EAP
  • please, report any issues in starting jobs or in specifying an account for your jobs using the -A option

BeeGFS Quotas

  • it's being considered to implement a quota for the BeeGFS file system (mounted to /work)

SW updates

  • upcoming SLURM update to version 19.5.5
    • will require a maintenance for the full system
    • no date fixed yet
  • Easybuild has been updated to version 4.1.2
  • modules successfully tested in the Devel stage will be included in the production (default) stage
  • ParaStation Health Checker now includes a check for GPU presence on the DAM and ESB nodes

Network Federation Gateways

  • two gateway nodes for IB ↔ Extoll bridging between CM/ESB and DAM are available for the users
  • for an example on how to use the gateway nodes and for further information, please refer to the batchsystem wiki page.

DAM nodes

  • all nodes still run in app-direct mode for the DCPMM (see #2366)