[gpfsug-discuss] GPFS 5 and supported rhel OS

[Skylar Thompson]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:14:40PM -0500, David Johnson wrote:
> Instead of keeping whole legacy systems around, could they achieve the same 
> with a container built from the legacy software?

That is our hope, at least once we can get off CentOS 6 and run containers.
:)

Though containers aren't quite a panacea; there's still the issue of
insecure software being baked into the container, but at least we can limit
what the container can access more easily than running outside a
container.
 
> > 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)
-- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator
-- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354
-- University of Washington School of Medicine