[Clas_offline] Decommissioning of 32 bit interactive farms

[Alex Kubarovsky]

I think some people didn't think about migration to 64-bit while 32-bit
machines work.

Regards, Alex

On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 1:51 PM, Kijun Park <parkkj at jlab.org> wrote:

> I am not against transition but remaining one 32-bit node as backup or
> checkup will be the good idea. For me, I will have to deal with my old codes
> for re-compiling based on 64-bit. But I don't think I will have a big
> trouble.
> Even if no one complain about decommission during past months, it doesn't
> mean everyone is happy with that.
>
> Sincerely yours,
> Kijun
>
>
> Heyes Graham wrote:
>
>> The plan to decommission the 32-bit nodes has been in place for a long
>> time and I have had no feedback at all from any  of the groups indicating
>> anything that would prevent this. Of course Dennis is at the meeting in
>> Paris this week and not able to comment.
>>
>> If one node was to be kept up how long will it be needed for? I don't yet
>> know if it is possible but if it is that node must only be used as a check
>> of the 64-bit code.
>>
>> Regards to all,
>> Graham
>>
>>
>> On Mar 9, 2011, at 12:30 pm, Alex Kubarovsky wrote:
>>
>>  Hello,
>>>
>>> I completely agree with Valery and Ivan.
>>>
>>> Regards, Alex
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:49 AM, Valery Kubarovsky <vpk at jlab.org<mailto:
>>> vpk at jlab.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>    Hi All:
>>>    I completely support the idea to keep one of our ifarms (3,4,5)
>>>    alive for some time.
>>>    It will give us the possibility to check the code on 64bits machines.
>>>    Again, we are not ready for the complete transition due to
>>>    missing programs at new platform.
>>>    Valery
>>>
>>>
>>>    On Wed, Mar 9, 2011 at 11:36 AM, Ivan Bedlinskiy
>>>    <bedlinsk at jlab.org <mailto:bedlinsk at jlab.org>> wrote:
>>>
>>>        Hi Dennis,
>>>
>>>        According to login notices on ifarms all 32bit interactive
>>>        farms will be
>>>        decommissioned on Monday, March 14.
>>>
>>>        Is it possible to keep at least one such farm in production?
>>>
>>>        The reasons:
>>>
>>>        1) The migration to 64 bit systems is not complete. At least
>>>        some of my
>>>        code is not linking properly on ifarml6. I believe some other
>>>        people
>>>        will have similar problems.
>>>
>>>        2) As far as I know certain CLAS software like CED in not
>>>        compiling on
>>>        ifarml6
>>>
>>>        3) Its better to have backup option and be able to check
>>>        certain old
>>>        sources in the old environment. When migration from RHEL3 to
>>>        RHFC8
>>>        occurred it was very inconvenient the old environment was not
>>>        available.
>>>
>>>        Regards
>>>        Ivan
>>>
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