[Tornado-users] Re: tornado: rolling upgrade
Per Lundqvist
perl at nsc.liu.se
Mon Dec 10 17:43:47 CET 2007
All compute nodes on Tornado have now been updated
/Per
On Wed, 5 Dec 2007, Per Lundqvist wrote:
> The compute nodes on Tornado will be upgraded during this week, beginning
> from today. This will be a rolling upgrade, without stopping the batch
> queuing system or any other vital services on tornado (similar to previous
> 2 upgrades).
>
> The following will be upgraded on n1-n129:
>
> 1. New kernel, 2.6.9-55.0.9.EL_lustre.1.6.3smp
> 2. Security updates to other software (latest CentOS 4)
> 3. New lustre client: 1.4.11.1 -> 1.6.3
> 4. Upgrade of infiniband stack OFED 1.1 -> OFED 1.2.5.1
> 5. Upgrade of Scali MPI
>
> This has been thoroughly tested without any issues (same upgrade has
> already been done on Dunder), but contact support at nsc.liu.se if you
> encounter anything after the upgrade that does not work properly.
>
> Update Procedure:
>
> 1. _All_ compute nodes will be marked unavailable in the batch queuing
> system (prevents new jobs from starting on the nodes and does not
> affect already running jobs)
> 2. For all unavailable compute nodes, and if no job is running on node,
> and not updated: update
> 3. Mark node available again when update finished
>
> The login node, system node and a1,a2 will be updated later.
>
> /Per
>
>
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Per Lundqvist
National Supercomputer Centre
Linköping University, Sweden
http://www.nsc.liu.se
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