Updates of front-end login nodes (login1/2, vortex-future) and OnDemand
Infrastructure services updated
DECOMMISSIONING OF LEGACY HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS:
Reinstallation of remaining rack of CentOS7 nodes tagged LEGACY
Removal of ccrsoft/legacy software environment - this will result in the inability to load any modules from the legacy environment, installed in /util
Removal of OnDemand apps labeled LEGACY
LEGACY and NOTLEGACY tags will be removed from Slurm
Decommissioning of vortex-legacy login nodes (vortex1 and vortex2)
Decommissioning of Panasas storage - make sure to remove any files you want to keep from /panasas/scratch before the downtime!
IMPORTANT: Have you updated your workflow to the ccrsoft/2023.01 software environment yet? If you think your work will not be affected, please read this and run some simple tests just to make sure! After this maintenance downtime, you will not have access to the legacy software modules any more.
What about GUIs like Abaqus, Ansys, Matlab, and SAS?
There are multiple engineering packages that have been difficult to install in CCR's updated environment. Here is the status on these packages:
Abaqus - Version 2023 is ready! See here for information on how to use it. It is not available as a module like other software. If you attempt to use this and it doesn't work for you, please report in detail to CCR Help what problems you are seeing. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of Abaqus in a container until the August downtime. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
Matlab 2019 - There are two versions of Matlab published in ccrsoft/2023.01 and these are the supported versions. If you must use Matlab 2019, it will be available to use in a container until the August downtime. No other legacy versions of Matlab work in this way. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
SAS - This will not be available in ccrsoft/2023.01 prior to the June downtime. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of SAS in a container until the August downtime. We will have SAS available in ccrsoft/2023.01 prior to then. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
Ansys - This is published in ccrsoft/2023.01. Command line tools work. The cfx5 and icemcfd GUIs work. The workbench (runwb2) and fluent GUIs do not work. We continue to work on getting these GUIs to function. Unfortunately, the temporary work around we have for SAS and Abaqus does not work for Ansys. If you have not already done so, please contact CCR Help if this is an impediment to your research.
LSDYNA - this is now part of Ansys and is functional. For instructions on how to use it, please see here.
Research group specific software:
CASTEP - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. This can be installed using Easybuild (see this EB recipe). The PI will need to register, agree to the developer's license agreement and download the installation files. The EB recipe will need to be changed to match the Foss 2021b toolchain - both the name of the recipe and the toolchain listed in the recipe. We detail out these steps in our Easybuild "How To" docs.
Gaussian - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. Please contact CCR Help for Easybuild installations instructions for your research group.
Orca - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. Please refer to /util/software/legacy/orca/README
for Easybuild installations instructions for your research group.
Silvaco TCAD Deckbuild - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. The research groups interested in using it will need to install it themselves. Because it is proprietary software and GUI based, we recommend using a container for the installation. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of Deckbuild in a container until the August downtime. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README To run other packages in the Silvaco program, refer to the README file.
QuantumATK - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. The research groups interested in using it will need to install it themselves. Because it is proprietary software and GUI based, we recommend using a container for the installation. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of QuantumATK in a container until the August downtime. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
Please note none of these software packages are under support and so if some features do not work for you in the containers you will need to wait for the new software to be published in ccrsoft/2023.01 or in the case of research specific software you will need to install it in your project directory.
Dori Sajdak
Date of downtime: Tuesday, June 25, 2024
Approximate time of outage: 7am-5pm
Resources affected by downtime:
UB-HPC cluster (all partitions)
Faculty cluster (all partitions)
Portals: OnDemand, ColdFront, IDM
What will be done:
DECOMMISSIONING OF LEGACY HARDWARE & SOFTWARE ENVIRONMENTS:
IMPORTANT: Have you updated your workflow to the ccrsoft/2023.01 software environment yet? If you think your work will not be affected, please read this and run some simple tests just to make sure! After this maintenance downtime, you will not have access to the legacy software modules any more.
What about GUIs like Abaqus, Ansys, Matlab, and SAS?
There are multiple engineering packages that have been difficult to install in CCR's updated environment. Here is the status on these packages:
Abaqus - Version 2023 is ready! See here for information on how to use it. It is not available as a module like other software. If you attempt to use this and it doesn't work for you, please report in detail to CCR Help what problems you are seeing. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of Abaqus in a container until the August downtime. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
Matlab 2019 - There are two versions of Matlab published in ccrsoft/2023.01 and these are the supported versions. If you must use Matlab 2019, it will be available to use in a container until the August downtime. No other legacy versions of Matlab work in this way. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
SAS - This will not be available in ccrsoft/2023.01 prior to the June downtime. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of SAS in a container until the August downtime. We will have SAS available in ccrsoft/2023.01 prior to then. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
Ansys - This is published in ccrsoft/2023.01. Command line tools work. The cfx5 and icemcfd GUIs work. The workbench (runwb2) and fluent GUIs do not work. We continue to work on getting these GUIs to function. Unfortunately, the temporary work around we have for SAS and Abaqus does not work for Ansys. If you have not already done so, please contact CCR Help if this is an impediment to your research.
LSDYNA - this is now part of Ansys and is functional. For instructions on how to use it, please see here.
Research group specific software:
CASTEP - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. This can be installed using Easybuild (see this EB recipe). The PI will need to register, agree to the developer's license agreement and download the installation files. The EB recipe will need to be changed to match the Foss 2021b toolchain - both the name of the recipe and the toolchain listed in the recipe. We detail out these steps in our Easybuild "How To" docs.
Gaussian - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. Please contact CCR Help for Easybuild installations instructions for your research group.
Orca - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. Please refer to /util/software/legacy/orca/README
for Easybuild installations instructions for your research group.
Silvaco TCAD Deckbuild - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. The research groups interested in using it will need to install it themselves. Because it is proprietary software and GUI based, we recommend using a container for the installation. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of Deckbuild in a container until the August downtime. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README To run other packages in the Silvaco program, refer to the README file.
QuantumATK - This will NOT be published in any CCR repositories as it is license restricted for research groups only. The research groups interested in using it will need to install it themselves. Because it is proprietary software and GUI based, we recommend using a container for the installation. As a temporary work around, you will be able to launch the legacy version of QuantumATK in a container until the August downtime. See this file for instructions: /util/software/legacy/scripts/README
Please note none of these software packages are under support and so if some features do not work for you in the containers you will need to wait for the new software to be published in ccrsoft/2023.01 or in the case of research specific software you will need to install it in your project directory.