Research Computing is making policy changes regarding storage organization and retention. This is in response to the increasing needs of users, and represent best practice.
Policy updates
The HPC cluster operating system, CentOS 7, will be end-of-life in June 2024 and we are beginning a project to upgrade. This will allow us to maintain ongoing security patching and compatibility with new software through the cluster lifetime. To that end, we have chosen to upgrade the HPC cluster to Rocky Linux 8.
Group storage directories are now protected by additional snapshots. You might be wondering what that is, and how does it help? We answer questions about data protection often, but this particular change is exciting and gives us an opportunity to discuss our file system, data protection, and specifically snapshots.
We hope you enjoy the new cluster software list. This list will be regularly updated when new software is installed on the cluster. It uses a semi-automated process to read data from our modulefiles, which we then transform to a usable yaml format. We hope to add new lists for other package systems such as R. Please let us know if that is of interest.
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