Open issues after the SuperMUC-NG Upgrade to SLES15 (24.06.2021)

Software packages from the environment modules and the spack stack release 21.1.1 with know issues

Package

Module name

To be addressed/priority

Comments

abaqus

2020

2021

KW26

Abaqus (Dassault Systems) is currently not supported on SuperMUC-NG (actually their are no known Abaqus users on SNG).
If you have the need for running the Abaqus software on SuperMUC-NG, please file a ticket to our Service Desk.

fluent

2020.R2

KW26

This particular ANSYS Fluent Release 2020.R2 has an OPA issue and is not reliably working on MPI startup. Therefore this ANSYS Fluent release has been banned from SuperMUC-NG.
Please use either ANSYS Fluent 2020.R1 or 2021.R1 and following instead.

starccm

starccm_dp

various versions

KW26

Older releases of StarCCM+ prior to Release 2020.2.1 are no longer supported on SNG under SLES15, i.e. in particular the releases 2019.2.1, 2019.3.1 and 2020.1.1 are no longer supported.

Please use any of the available releases of 2020.2.1 and following instead.

System Services that do not work or have operational restrictions

Item Status Comments

tcsh/csh/zsh missing on compute nodes

INFO

Workaround (Shebang in Slurm-Scripts):

/lrz/sys/spack/.tmp.mo/shell/opt/spack/linux-sles15-x86_64/gcc-7.5.0/tcsh-6.22.02-huauuirfh6tfts65pojjhflovenh6zpq/bin/csh
/lrz/sys/spack/.tmp.mo/shell/opt/spack/linux-sles15-x86_64/gcc-7.5.0/tcsh-6.22.02-huauuirfh6tfts65pojjhflovenh6zpq/bin/tcsh
/lrz/sys/spack/.tmp.mo/shell/opt/spack/linux-sles15-x86_64/gcc-7.5.0/zsh-5.8-ttlmry5lsum4iz6noz2d7uybavmsjmvq/bin/zsh

Please, also add source /etc/profile.d/modules.csh before using the module system.

job farming with srun WIP Placement on CPUs wrong