[intrepid-notify] Intrepid Driver Upgrade

[Andrew Cherry]

One quick note to anyone who is recompiling their applications prior  
to the driver upgrade: if you have additional paths defined  in your  
Makefiles that reference /bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor, you may need to  
temporarily change the "/bgsys/drivers/ppcfloor" references to "/bgsys/ 
drivers/V1R3M0_460_2008-081112P/ppc" in order to get the additional  
paths from the right driver.  If you do this, I'd recommend that you  
change the references back to "ppcfloor" when you're done with your  
compilation, since the driver-neutral path is usually the preferred  
one to use.

The above change is only necessary if you compile your code ahead of  
time before the driver has been switched over.  If you perform your  
compilations tonight after the switchover is complete, you shouldn't  
need to make any modifications to your makefiles or build scripts.

Andrew Cherry
ALCF Support

On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:22 PM, William Scullin wrote:

> Dear Users,
>
> On Tuesday, 20 January 2009, we'll be upgrading Intrepid, our 40 rack
> system, to the latest Blue Gene /P driver, V1R3M0, with all available
> eFixes. The queues will not drain themselves of existing jobs before
> the new driver will be put into place. Jobs in queue at the close of
> business on Tuesday will be run under the new driver.
>
> It is highly recommended that you recompile your code to take
> advantage of new features and fixes available in the new driver before
> running any application. We do not guarantee that code compiled for
> the previous driver will continue to work under V1R3M0. Applications
> and libraries recompiled to work with V1R3M0 will be available in
> /soft/apps/V1R3M0/.
>
> For more information about driver V1R3M0, please see:
>
> https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/index.php/ 
> BGP_Driver_Information#Driver_V1R3M0
>
> At the time of this e-mail, two logins have been set up to allow you
> to compile jobs with the new driver:
>
>   login9.intrepid.alcf.anl.gov
>   login10.intrepid.alcf.anl.gov
>
> If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the
> ALCF Support Team at support at alcf.anl.gov. Thank you and we apologize
> for any inconvenience.
>
> Best,
>
> The ALCF Support Team
>
>
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