[DONE] Major upgrade of Colossus 2024-08-05 07:00 to 2024-08-12_澳门葡京手机版app下载

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The operating system (OS) on Colossus will be upgraded starting Monday August 5th. This is a major upgrade, and will take one week. During the upgrade, Colossus will be unavailable.

Files in home directories and project areas will be accessible during the upgrade.

The main reason for the upgrade is that the current OS is very old, and soon will soon reach end of life.

During the downtime, we will reorganize the cluster, upgrade the networking and upgrade the OS from CentOS7 to Rocky9. Rocky, like CentOS, is a RedHat clone.

The software stack (available via "module load") will be reinstalled. We will install toolchains 2021a and newer. This means that not all
old versions of all software will be available after the upgrade. If you use software older than this, please start using newer versions, if possible. If something is missing, please submit the software reque...