[Clusterusers] glibc version on fly, cluster

[Bassam Kurdali]

Thanks Josiah! Glad that it's not just me and my rendering ;)
Crossing fingers and hoping it won't be a big disruptive change (from
my perspective, if we can get at or beyond glibc 2.19 I'll be happy as
a clam
On Fri, 2017-05-12 at 22:26 -0400, Wm. Josiah Erikson wrote:
> 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 person noticing how out-of-date everything is on the cluster.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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