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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>CentOS Linux 7.7 for the Farm</b></span><b><br>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An initial set of CentOS 7.7 nodes (320 farm18 job slots) are available for use. The new nodes are tagged with
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>centos77</b></span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> in Auger and Slurm. To support interactive sessions,
<b>i</b></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>farm1802</b> has been rebuilt as a CentOS 7.7 machine. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please test your code on these machines at your
</span><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">convenience</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. </span></font><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">Barring
any problems, the remainder of the farm will be gradually upgraded to CentOS 7.7 in the coming weeks. A few notes:</span></p>
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<li><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">CentOS 7.7 farm nodes have the same packages as the ifarm to support interactive slurm sessions</span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The QCD12s nodes in the farm will remain at CentOS 7.2 </span><br>
</li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Farm19 AMD nodes will arrive this month and be built at CentOS 7.7</span></li><li><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">CentOS 7.7 nodes support CVMFS<br>
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<div><span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Please let us know of any issues with the new farm node configuration. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Calibri, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here is a summary of farm node features from Slurm as of this writing:</span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;">farm[180221-180224] farm18,centos77 farm18,centos77 </span><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br>
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<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;">farm[140105-140168,140201-140236] farm14,centos7,centos72 farm14,centos7,centos72 </span><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br>
<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;">farm[13001-13004,13006-13009,13011,13013-13024] farm13,centos7,centos72 farm13,centos7,centos72 </span><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br>
<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;">farm[160107-160144] farm16,centos7,centos72 farm16,centos7,centos72 </span><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br>
<div style="margin: 0px"><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;">farm[180101-180136,180201-180219,180225-180248,180 farm18,centos7,centos72 farm18,centos7,centos72 </span><span style="font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;"> </span><br>
<span style="margin: 0px; font-family: Consolas, Courier, monospace; font-size: 10pt;">qcd12s[0113-0119,0205-0208,0213-0214,0216-0224,022 qcd12s,centos7,centos72 qcd12s,centos7,centos72 </span></div>
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