ARC 2020 Upgrade

The ARC cluster is scheduled for an upgrade starting on December 7th, 2020 and will be completed by December 17th. The login node may be unavailable during this time. You may continue to schedule jobs during this period.

Any jobs that have been submitted that have a time limit less than the remaining time between now and December 7th at 8AM will be queued and started after the upgrade period.

Please direct any questions or concerns to support@hpc.ucalgary.ca.

What's Changing?

Major changes with this upgrade include:

• the operating system, from CentOS 7 to CentOS 8
• the Linux Kernel, from 3.10 to 4.18
• the Slurm scheduler, from 17.11 to 20.02
• NVIDIA drivers updated, from 440.64 to 450.80
• CUDA updated, from 10.2 to 11.1

There will also be version updates to software packages on the cluster. A detailed list of version changes can be found in the following table:

Package Name	Current Configuration CentOS 7	After Upgrade CentOS 8
attr	2.4.46	2.4.48
bash	4.2.46	4.4.19
bc	1.06.95	1.07.1
boost	1.53.0	1.66.0
cmake	2.8.12.2	3.11.4
cpp	4.8.5	8.3.1
curl	7.29.0	7.61.1
dbus	1.10.24	1.12.8
diffstat	1.57	1.61
diffutils	3.3	3.6
dwz	0.11	0.12
ed	1.9	1.14.2
emacs	24.3	26.1
evince	3.28.2	3.28.4
expat	2.1.0	2.2.5
findutils	4.5.11	4.6.0
garcon	0.4.0	0.6.4
gawk	4.0.2	4.2.1
gcc	4.8.5	8.3.1
gd	2.0.35	2.2.5
gdb	7.6.1	8.2
gdbm	1.10	1.18
geoclue2	2.4.8	2.5.5
git	1.8.3.1	2.18.4
glib2	2.56.1	2.56.4
glibc-headers	2.17	2.28
glx-utils	8.3.0	8.4.0
gmp	6.0.0	6.1.2
gnome-shell	3.28.3	3.32.2
gnupg2	2.0.22	2.2.9
gnuplot	4.6.2	5.2.4
graphviz	2.30.1	2.40.1
gvnc	0.7.0	0.9.0
gzip	1.5	1.9
hardlink	1.0	1.3
hyphen	2.8.6	2.8.8
iproute	4.11.0	5.3.0
jansson	2.10	2.11
jasper-libs	1.900.1	2.0.14
java-1.8.0-openjdk-headless	1.8.0.252.b09	1.8.0.272.b10
json-c	0.11	0.13.1
kernel	3.10.0	4.18.0
less	458	530
libcap	2.22	2.26
libcap-ng	0.7.5	0.7.9
libcdio	0.92	2.0.0
libcdio-paranoia	10.2+0.90	10.2+0.94+2
libcom_err	1.42.9	1.45.4
libcurl	7.29.0	7.61.1
libdb	5.3.21	5.3.28
libdmx	1.1.3	1.1.4
libdrm	2.4.97	2.4.100
libedit	3.0	3.1
libfastjson	0.99.4	0.99.8
libffi	3.0.13	3.1
libfprint	0.8.2	1.90.0
libgcab1	0.7	1.1
libgcc	4.8.5	8.3.1
libgfortran	4.8.5	8.3.1
libgpg-error	1.12	1.31
libgphoto2	2.5.15	2.5.16
libgsf	1.14.26	1.14.41
libgusb	0.2.9	0.3.0
libicu	50.2	60.3
libidn	1.28	1.34
libinput	1.10.7	1.14.3
libiscsi	1.9.0	1.18.0
libjpeg-turbo	1.2.90	1.5.3
libkadm5	1.15.1	1.17
libldb	1.5.4	2.0.7
liblockfile	1.08	1.14
liblouis	2.5.2	2.6.2
libmusicbrainz5	5.0.1	5.1.0
libndp	1.2	1.7
libnfsidmap	0.25	2.3.3
libnl3	3.2.28	3.5.0
libnl3-cli	3.2.28	3.5.0
libnma	1.8.6	1.8.22
libpcap	1.5.3	1.9.0
libpng	1.5.13	1.6.34
libproxy	0.4.11	0.4.15
libselinux	2.5	2.9
libsrtp	1.4.4	1.5.4
libss	1.42.9	1.45.4
libstdc++	4.8.5	8.3.1
libtalloc	2.1.16	2.2.0
libtar	1.2.11	1.2.20
libtasn1	4.10	4.13
libtdb	1.3.18	1.4.2
libtevent	0.9.39	0.10.0
libthai	0.1.14	0.1.27
libtiff	4.0.3	4.0.9
libtimezonemap	0.4.4	0.4.5.1
libtirpc	0.2.4	1.1.4
libtool	2.4.2	2.4.6
libtool-ltdl	2.4.2	2.4.6
libudisks2	2.8.4	2.8.3
libunistring	0.9.3	0.9.9
libusbx	1.0.21	1.0.22
libuser	0.60	0.62
libuuid	2.23.2	2.32.1
libuv	1.34.0	1.23.1
libv4l	0.9.5	1.14.2
libvirt-gconfig	1.0.0	2.0.0
libvirt-glib	1.0.0	2.0.0
libvirt-gobject	1.0.0	2.0.0
libwmf-lite	0.2.8.4	0.2.9
libX11	1.6.7	1.6.8
libxcb	1.13	1.13.1
libxfce4ui	4.12.1	4.14.1
libxfce4util	4.12.1	4.14.0
libxml2	2.9.1	2.9.7
libXp	1.0.2	1.0.3
libxshmfence	1.2	1.3
libxslt	1.1.28	1.1.32
libXxf86misc	1.0.3	1.0.4
logrotate	3.8.6	3.14.0
lsof	4.87	4.91
lsscsi	0.27	0.30
lua	5.1.4	5.3.4
m4	1.4.16	1.4.18
make	3.82	4.2.1
mc	4.8.7	4.8.19
mcelog	144	165
mokutil	15	0.3.0
mtr	0.85	0.92
munge	0.5.11	0.5.13
nano	2.3.1	2.9.8
ncurses	5.9	6.1
neon	0.30.0	0.30.2
net-snmp-libs	5.7.2	5.8
nettle	2.7.1	3.4.1
nmap	6.40	7.70
nmap-ncat	6.40	7.70
nm-connection-editor	1.8.6	1.8.22
nss-softokn	3.44.0	3.53.1
nss-softokn-freebl	3.44.0	3.53.1
oddjob	0.31.5	0.34.4
oddjob-mkhomedir	0.31.5	0.34.4
opensm-libs	3.3.21	5.6.0.MLNX20200217.cedc1e4
openssl	1.0.2k	1.1.1c
orc	0.4.26	0.4.28
orca	3.6.3	3.28.2
pam	1.1.8	1.3.1
parted	3.1	3.2
passwd	0.79	0.80
patch	2.7.1	2.7.6
patchutils	0.3.3	0.3.4
perl	5.16.3	5.26.3
poppler	0.26.5	0.66.0
popt	1.13	1.16
python36	2.7.5	3.6.8
qemu-img	1.5.3	2.12.0
qemu-kvm	1.5.3	2.12.0
quota	4.01	4.04
quota-nls	4.01	4.04
rasdaemon	0.4.1	0.6.1
rpcbind	0.2.0	1.2.5
rpm	4.11.3	4.14.2
rpm-build	4.11.3	4.14.2
rpm-build-libs	4.11.3	4.14.2
rpm-libs	4.11.3	4.14.2
rsync	3.1.2	3.1.3
rsyslog	8.24.0	8.1911.0
shared-mime-info	1.8	1.9
slurm	17.11.5	20.02.5
soundtouch	1.4.0	2.0.0
spice-glib	0.35	0.37
spice-gtk3	0.35	0.37
spice-server	0.14.0	0.14.2
sqlite	3.7.17	3.26.0
sudo	1.8.23	1.8.29
system-config-printer-libs	1.4.1	1.5.11
system-config-printer-udev	1.4.1	1.5.11
systemd	219	239
taglib	1.8	1.11.1
tar	1.26	1.30
tcl	8.5.13	8.6.8
tcllib	1.14	1.19
tk	8.5.13	8.6.8
tmux	1.8	2.7
tuned	2.11.0	2.13.0
usermode	1.111	1.113
util-linux	2.23.2	2.32.1
vim-common	7.4.629	8.0.1763
wavpack	4.60.1	5.1.0
wget	1.14	1.19.5
which	2.20	2.21
wpa_supplicant	2.6	2.9
xdg-utils	1.1.0	1.1.2
xfce4-session	4.12.1	4.14.2
xfce-polkit	0.2	0.3
xfconf	4.12.0	4.14.3
xfdesktop	4.12.4	4.14.1
xfsdump	3.1.7	3.1.8
xfsprogs	4.5.0	5.0.0
xfwm4	4.12.3	4.14.2
xkeyboard-config	2.24	2.28
xmlrpc-c	1.32.5	1.51.0
xmlrpc-c-client	1.32.5	1.51.0
xmlsec1	1.2.20	1.2.25
xmlsec1-openssl	1.2.20	1.2.25
xz	5.2.2	5.2.4
yum	3.4.3	4.2.17
zlib	1.2.7	1.2.11

Please contact us if a software package is not listed above.