Latest news on the DEEP-EST prototype system

This is a summary of the latest news concerning the system. For a list of known problems related to the system, please refer to this page.

Last update: 2020-09-02

System will be in maintenance in CW37 (Monday, 2020-09-07 to Friday 2020-09-11)

System hardware

CM nodes

ESB nodes

• remaining two ESB racks have been installed: now 75 ESB nodes present
• currently connected via IB EDR, to be changed to Extoll network later this year

DAM nodes

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

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.

Global resources

File Systems

• The old shared file system /sdv-work (from previous DEEP projects) has been rebuild after disk failures and is back online

• Shared file system /work (BeeGFS) is now mounted via NFS

• It is now possible to access the $ARCHIVE file system from the deepv login node under /arch. For more information about $ARCHIVE, please refer to the Filesystems page.

System software

SW updates

• new SLURM version 19.05.6 with workflow support has been rolled out
  • information on how to use workflows have been added here.
  • please, report any problems found

• new 2020a Easybuild stage is currently being set up

• new ParaStationMPI version (5.4.6-1) has been installed and is used as default now

User management

BeeGFS Quotas

• a quota for the BeeGFS file system (mounted to /work) is being implemented