<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear Users,<div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you. Thank you for your patience. Please contact <a href="mailto:support@alcf.anl.gov">support@alcf.anl.gov</a> if you have any further questions.</div><div><br></div><div>Andrew Cherry</div><div>ALCF Support</div><div><br></div><div><div><div>On Jan 19, 2009, at 3:22 PM, William Scullin wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Dear Users,<br><br>On Tuesday, 20 January 2009, we'll be upgrading Intrepid, our 40 rack<br>system, to the latest Blue Gene /P driver, V1R3M0, with all available<br>eFixes. The queues will not drain themselves of existing jobs before<br>the new driver will be put into place. Jobs in queue at the close of<br>business on Tuesday will be run under the new driver.<br><br>It is highly recommended that you recompile your code to take<br>advantage of new features and fixes available in the new driver before<br>running any application. We do not guarantee that code compiled for<br>the previous driver will continue to work under V1R3M0. Applications<br>and libraries recompiled to work with V1R3M0 will be available in<br>/soft/apps/V1R3M0/.<br><br>For more information about driver V1R3M0, please see:<br><br><a href="https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/index.php/BGP_Driver_Information">https://wiki.alcf.anl.gov/index.php/BGP_Driver_Information</a>#Driver_V1R3M0<br><br>At the time of this e-mail, two logins have been set up to allow you<br>to compile jobs with the new driver:<br><br> login9.intrepid.alcf.anl.gov<br> login10.intrepid.alcf.anl.gov<br><br>If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please contact the<br>ALCF Support Team at <a href="mailto:support@alcf.anl.gov">support@alcf.anl.gov</a>. Thank you and we apologize<br>for any inconvenience.<br><br>Best,<br><br>The ALCF Support Team<br><br><br>_______________________________________________<br>intrepid-notify mailing list<br><a href="mailto:intrepid-notify@alcf.anl.gov">intrepid-notify@alcf.anl.gov</a><br><a href="http://lists.alcf.anl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/intrepid-notify">http://lists.alcf.anl.gov/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/intrepid-notify</a><br></div></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>