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Clusters to complete transition to hierarchy modules

The transition to hierarchy modules has completed today, May 9th. If any of your job scripts still have old module names the module load will no longer work so be sure to double check your PBS job scripts and output for any old module names. We have attempted to personally address individuals using the old names based on usage logs over the past month, and will do so again today. For more information about hierarchy module see the original news article. If you have any questions about this please contact us at rcac-help@purdue.edu.

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On Tuesday, May 9, 2017 the clusters will complete the change to hierarchy modules. When the clusters switched to hierarchy modules on February 1st, the old module names remained supported with a warning message in place. On Tuesday, May 9, 2017, support for this translation of old module names will end.

You should check PBS job output for warning messages about old module style names. Any 'module load' commands showing this warning will fail after Tuesday, May 9, 2017. The warning message will tell you what you should change your 'module load' commands to.

You can switch over early with the command:

touch ~/.hierarchy

This will disable the automatic translation and will put you in and environment equivalent to that of after Tuesday, May 9, 2017.

For more information about hierarchy module see the original news article. If you have any questions about this please contact us at rcac-help@purdue.edu.

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