Gilbreth Maintenance Test Environment Available to Users
As part of next week's Gilbreth's maintenance, we will be upgrading the operating system from CentOS 7 to Rocky Linux 9 which requires us to rebuild the applications hosted on Gilbreth. As part of this application rebuild, we will be removing old and unused versions of our applications and upgrading many of them to newer versions.
In order to aid in that transition, we have made a test environment available to users so they can begin re-building their applications under the new toolchains and exploring the new software stack. We expect that this environment will not change much ahead of the maintenance next week, but we may end up making small changes to the application stack before then.
This test environment can be accessed by using the command ssh gilbreth-fe05 from any Gilbreth's front end nodes. The Slurm queues you are used to should be present and will submit to test nodes. Wait times may be larger for these test nodes due to their only being a limited number of nodes available for testing.
If you encounter issues or have questions about this maintenance, please reach out to us at rcac-help@purdue.edu.