[Clusterusers] glibc version on fly, cluster

[Wm. Josiah Erikson]

It looks like there are ways to run newer versions of CentOS underneath
ROCKS 6.2... will research more and attempt to update next week if it's
not too disruptive, later this summer if it is. You're hardly the only
person noticing how out-of-date everything is on the cluster. Of course
I also worry that we've been pwned for years and just don't know it. I
see no evidence of that... but that means not much. It's past time for a
major overhaul.

    -Josiah



On 5/12/17 10:08 PM, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> Well really the issue is that we're still running ROCKS, and we're a
> version behind... but ROCKS seems to have fallen behind and a new
> release hasn't come out in almost two years. I think it's time to move
> to something else and probably entirely rebuild the cluster. The latest
> version of ROCKS is based on CentOS 6.6, which is already out of support
> and doesn't have a new glibc either.
>
> I will do some research, ask my HPC colleagues what they're running
> these days, and ask the ROCKS list what's up - I think they were
> NFS-funded and, well...
>
> That said, we should figure out an interim solution. I shall think about
> this more next week.
>
>     -Josiah
>
>
>
> On 5/12/17 9:08 PM, Bassam Kurdali wrote:
>> hi folks,
>> we're currently at glibc 2.12 which is fairly oldish - there's a shiny
>> new blender with with pretty impressive rendering improvements (new
>> shaders and massive speed increases) - but as of the *last* blender
>> version, they dropped glibc older than 2.19
>>
>>
>> This is mainly a question for josiah, but can we do something like have
>> two glibc versions on the system? or some kind of fancy chroot/local
>> environment? failing that, I might need some help building for fly
>> (installing dependencies, cmake, etc.)
>>
>> cheers,
>> Bassam
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Wm. Josiah Erikson
Head, Systems and Networking
Hampshire College
Amherst, MA 01002