The management software on Polaris has been successfully upgraded to HPCM 1.10, along with upgrades to Slingshot 2.1.2, Programming Environment 23.12, NVIDIA SDK 23.9, NVIDIA driver version 535.154.05, CUDA 12.2, and SUSE 15 SP5. In addition to the system upgrades, several important changes have been made to the user software environment which may impact user workflows including:
- Many user codes will need to be re-built and/or re-linked against the newer version of the Cray Programming Environment (23.12) and Spack provided dependencies.
- /soft/modulefiles is no longer in the default $MODULEPATH. To access modules installed in /soft, users should run module use /soft/modulefiles. See “Modules removed” section in the link below.
- New Spack deployments available in /soft.
- PE versions older than 23.12 are deprecated and have been removed.
- Deprecated software in /soft has been removed and new software has been installed.
- Memory limits lowered on the logins to 8G of memory, and 8 cores per user.
- GitLab runners on Polaris are temporarily unavailable.
- Datascience Anaconda module has been updated. PyTorch 2.3.0 and TensorFlow 2.16.1 are now available as part of this module.
- ParaView has been updated.
For detailed information, please visit: https://docs.alcf.anl.gov/polaris/system-updates/#2024-04-22