Recommended update for release-notes-sle_hpc

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2021:0036-1
Rating: important
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Affected Products:
  • HPC Module 15-SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2

An update that has three fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for release-notes-sle_hpc fixes the following issues:

  • 15.2.20201217 (tracked in bsc#1180158)
  • Update displayed product name to "SUSE Linux Enterprise High-Performance Computing"
  • Many corrections, clarity, wording, and markup improvements
  • Added notes:
  • Contents of the HPC module
  • Contents of the NVIDIA Compute module
  • The Python 2 module needs to be installed (bsc#1173308, bsc#1123633)
  • Added tools/libraries:
    • Boost
  • Updated tools/libraries:
    • Lmod
    • HPC flavor of Boost
    • HPC flavor of pnetcdf
    • netcdf-cxx4
    • ScaLAPACK
    • IMB (Intel MPI Benchmarks)
    • netcdf
    • Trilinos
    • PETSc
    • Slurm, including subnotes on configuration changes, slurm-webdoc, and PMIx support
    • MUNGE
    • ConMan
    • SciPy
    • clustduct
    • ganglia-web
    • SCOTCH
  • Removed tool:
    • ohpc
  • Usage notes:
    • ADIOS
    • Boost
    • HYPRE
    • MPI library implementations
    • mpiP
    • MUMPS
    • pnetcdf
    • SCOTCH
    • Slurm update workflow
    • SuperLU
    • Trilinos
  • Removed notes:
  • Description of ohpc, as ohpc is no longer shipped
  • Changed notes:
  • Updated system roles, the default root file system is now Btrfs
  • The update notes for libfabric, rdma-core, and openmpi3 have been moved to the AWS section
  • The update notes for hwloc have been expanded
  • The update notes for memkind have been expanded
  • The update notes for genders have been expanded
  • Updated and expanded GCC note
  • Updated list of available MPI implementations
  • Updated list of master packages of HPC libraries for different MPI implementations
  • Ganglia web interface no longer needs the Web and Scripting module
  • The description of MUNGE has been expanded

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • HPC Module 15-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Module-HPC-15-SP2-2021-36=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-Product-HPC-15-SP2-2021-36=1

Package List:

  • HPC Module 15-SP2 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sle_hpc-15.200000000.20201217-3.6.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 15 SP2 (noarch)
    • release-notes-sle_hpc-15.200000000.20201217-3.6.1

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