[intrepid-notify] Intrepid Driver Upgrade

[Andrew Cherry]

Dear Users,

We have run into several issues after upgrading the driver on Intrepid  
to V1R3M0 (sporadic boot failures along with some other issues  
uncovered by our test code).  At this point, it is not clear if the  
problems are all necessarily related to the driver upgrade.  Since  
it's getting late, we're not expecting to come to a complete  
resolution tonight.  We will continue to keep the system reserved into  
tomorrow until we can determine the causes of the problems we're  
seeing, and will keep you updated on the situation.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you.  Thank you for  
your patience.  Please contact support at alcf.anl.gov if you have any  
further questions.

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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