wiki:Public/User_Guide/News

Version 21 (modified by Jochen Kreutz, 4 years ago) (diff)

general update to reflect current system status and upcoming changes

Table of Contents

  1. System hardware
    1. ESB nodes
    2. DAM nodes
    3. Network Federation Gateways
    4. Global resources
      1. NAM
    5. File Systems
  2. System software
    1. SW updates
    2. User management
      1. BeeGFS Quotas

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: 2021-08-19

System hardware

ESB nodes

  • the first ESB rack (nodes dp-esb[01-25]) is planned to be revised to use IB again (instead of Extoll interconnect)
    • date for the HW intervention not yet fixed

DAM nodes

  • along with first ESB rack also the DAM nodes will move to IB (instead of using 40 GbE and Extoll)

Network Federation Gateways

  • with aiming for an "all IB" solution the NFGWs will become obsolete
  • current status is
    • 2x NF-GW EDR/Extoll (1 x Fabri3, 1 x Tourmalet)
    • 2x NF-GW 40GbE/Extoll ( 1 x Fabri3, 1 x Tourmalet)
    • 2x NF-GW EDR/40GbE
    • the NF-GWs equipped with Fabri3 PCIe cards are not in operation
    • for an example on how to use the gateway nodes and for further information, please refer to the batchsystem wiki page.

Global resources

NAM

  • a NAM SW implementation has been done, a test environment on the DAM has been set up on dp-dam[09-16].
  • for more information on NAM usage and an example, please refer to NAM with TAMPI page

File Systems

please refer to the Filesystems overview

  • recent changes:
    • a new All Flash Storage Module (AFSM) is in place and provides fast work file system mounted to /work on compute nodes and login node (deepv)
      • the older System Services and Storage Module (SSSM) still serves the /usr/local file system
      • SSSM storage has been rebuilt for performance reasons
    • BeeGFS servers and clients have been updated
    • BeeGFS (/work) user quotas is in place now (see section "User management")
    • It is possible to access the $ARCHIVE file system from the deepv login node under /arch. See hint in the MOTD for efficient usage of the archive filesystem

System software

SW updates

  • new SLURM version has been installed: 20.11.8.
    • please use --interactive flag for interactive sessions now (see MOTD hint)
  • 2021 Easybuild stage is being set up
  • latest Intel oneAPI version is available in /usr/local/intel/oneapi

User management

BeeGFS Quotas

  • a quota for the BeeGFS file system (mounted to /work) has been implemented
    • no need to activate thresholds yet