[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

[David Johnson]

Instead of keeping whole legacy systems around, could they achieve the same 
with a container built from the legacy software?

> On Feb 20, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Skylar Thompson <skylar2 at uw.edu> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 04:29:40PM +0000, Ken Atkinson wrote:
>> Fred,
>> It may be that some HPC users "have to"
>> reverify the results of their computations as being exactly the same as a
>> previous software stack and that is not a minor task. Any change may
>> require this verification process.....
>> Ken Atkjnson
> 
> We have this problem too, but at the same time the same people require us
> to run supported software and remove software versions with known
> vulnerabilities. The compromise we've worked out for the researchers is to
> have them track which software versions they used for a particular run/data
> release. The researchers who care more will have a validation suite that
> will (hopefully) call out problems as we do required upgrades.
> 
> At some point, it's simply unrealistic to keep legacy systems around,
> though we do have a lab that needs a Solaris/SPARC system just to run a
> 15-year-old component of a pipeline for which they don't have source code...
> 
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> -- Skylar Thompson (skylar2 at u.washington.edu)
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