Release Notes¶
- Release Notes: Scyld ClusterWare Release v7.9.19-7919g0000
- About This Release
- First Installation of Scyld ClusterWare 7 On A Server
- Upgrading An Earlier Release of Scyld ClusterWare 7 to 7.9
- Post-Installation Configuration Issues
- Resolve *.rpmnew and *.rpmsave configuration file differences
- Disable SELinux and NetworkManager
- Edit
/etc/beowulf/conf.d/sysctl.confas needed - Optionally reduce size of /usr/lib/locale/locale-archive
- Optionally configure and enable compute node CPU speed/power management
- Optionally install a different TORQUE package
- Optionally enable job manager
- Optionally enable TORQUE scheduler
- Optionally enable Ganglia monitoring tool
- Optionally enable NFS locking
- Optionally adjust the size limit for locked memory
- Optionally increase the max number of processes per user
- Optionally enable SSHD on compute nodes
- Optionally allow IP Forwarding
- Optionally increase the nf_conntrack table size
- Optionally configure vm.zone_reclaim_mode on compute nodes
- Optionally configure automount on compute nodes
- Optionally reconfigure node names
- Post-Installation Configuration Issues For Large Clusters
- Post-Installation Release of Updated Packages
- Notable Feature Enhancements And Bug Fixes
- v7.9.19 - March 17, 2023
- v7.9.18 - February 6, 2023
- v7.9.17 - November 17, 2022
- v7.9.16 - August 19, 2022
- v7.9.15 - July 8, 2022
- v7.9.14 - June 1, 2022
- v7.9.13 - April 13, 2022
- v7.9.12 - March 2, 2022
- v7.9.11 - January 20, 2022
- v7.9.10 - December 6, 2021
- v7.9.9 - October 20, 2021
- v7.9.8 - September 15, 2021
- v7.9.7 - July 27, 2021
- v7.9.6 - June 21, 2021
- v7.9.5 - May 26, 2021
- v7.9.4 - April 27, 2021
- v7.9.3 - April 7, 2021
- v7.9.2 - February 11, 2021
- v7.9.1 - January 6, 2021
- v7.9.0 - December 9, 2020
- v7.8.5 - September 22, 2020
- v7.8.4 - August 5, 2020
- v7.8.3 - July 7, 2020
- v7.8.2 - June 17, 2020
- v7.8.1 - May 27, 2020
- v7.8.0 - May 6, 2020
- v7.7.5 - April 1, 2020
- v7.7.4 - February 20, 2020
- v7.7.3 - December 13, 2019
- v7.7.2 - November 27, 2019
- v7.7.1 - October 18, 2019
- v7.7.0 - September 24, 2019
- v7.6.4 - August 16, 2019
- v7.6.3 - July 10, 2019
- v7.6.2 - June 11, 2019
- v7.6.1 - April 8, 2019
- v7.6.0 - December 14, 2018
- v7.5.4 - October 2, 2018
- v7.5.3 - July 27, 2018
- v7.5.2 - July 14, 2018
- v7.5.1 - June 4, 2018
- v7.5.0 - June 4, 2018
- v7.4.6 - October 3, 2018
- v7.4.5 - March 23, 2018
- v7.4.4 - February 8, 2018
- v7.4.3 - January 11, 2018
- v7.4.2 - December 26, 2017
- v7.4.1 - October 31, 2017
- v7.4.0 - October 11, 2017
- v7.4.0 - October 6, 2017
- v7.3.7 - October 13, 2017
- v7.3.6 - August 7, 2017
- v7.3.5 - June 28, 2017
- v7.3.4 - June 16, 2017
- v7.3.3 - April 27, 2017
- v7.3.2 - April 3, 2017
- v7.3.1 - March 8, 2017
- v7.3.0 - January 20, 2017
- v7.2.0 - November 14, 2016
- Known Issues And Workarounds
- Issues with bootmodule firmware
- Kernel panic using non-invpcid old Intel nodes
- Managing environment modules .version files
- Installing and managing concurrent versions of packages
- Issues with OpenMPI
- Issues with Scyld ClusterWare process migration in heterogeneous clusters
- Issues with MVAPICH2 and mpirun_rsh or mpispawn
- Issues with Singularity
- Issues with ptrace
- Issues with IP Forwarding
- Issues with kernel modules
- Issues with port numbers
- Issues with Spanning Tree Protocol and portfast
- Issues with Gdk
- Caution when modifying Scyld ClusterWare scripts
- Caution using tools that modify config files touched by Scyld ClusterWare
- Running nscd service on master node may cause kickbackdaemon to misbehave
- Beofdisk does not support local disks without partition tables
- Issues with bproc and the getpid() syscall