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Machines to upgrade: 30

• Main reason is to avoid security holes and update libraries.
• Libraries not present in the distribution will be provided with a new mechanism implemented with success by Lunarc. It will be in a test state during 2017.
• OpenSuse 13.1 is out of support since November 2016; the software is already old.

• Ubuntu 16.04 will be supported until 2021 and is my preference. There will be no more machine update until that time.
• OpenSuSE Leap can be installed upon request. Its release cycle and support is unclear, therefore I am not supporting it anymore.

Papaya will be updated to a more powerful machine running centos7. It will run all services on a raid 1 sw disk set.

• nis master
• cups print server
• mathematica license
• intel license (if matfys buys a new one)

Decision pending: centos6 or centos7

From https://wiki.centos.org/About/Product :

Probably CentOS7 for all machines is the best choice.

1. Update vespa.teorfys.lu.se to a new machine with CentOS7
   • define salt states for it
   • install intel license server
   • install salt?
   • install tftp
   • install needed pxe boot stuff for nodes
   • %DATE% Switch old vespa frontend to new vespa frontend

1. Update n3 as guinea pig
   • %DATE% switch off n3
   • clone disk to a virtual machine for future use
   • update to latest ILOM
   • define salt config states
   • install slurm
   • test slurm interactive mode
   • install eb
   • install modules: new env must be completely based on modules, no more specific profile.sh

1. Update n6 as guinea pig
   • %DATE% switch off n6
   • test automatic rebuilt of n3 setup on demand

• vespa.teorfys.lu.se: will be changed to a newer machine
• vespa2.matfys.lth.se: the system will be updated

Intel

Opteron! Will CentOS7 run on those? Test on n6

• no planned update at the moment. They run CentOS6.x and easybuild.