Instead of keeping whole legacy systems around, could they achieve the same with a container built from the legacy software?
> On Feb 20, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Skylar Thompson <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 04:29:40PM +0000, Ken Atkinson wrote: >> Fred, >> It may be that some HPC users "have to" >> reverify the results of their computations as being exactly the same as a >> previous software stack and that is not a minor task. Any change may >> require this verification process..... >> Ken Atkjnson > > We have this problem too, but at the same time the same people require us > to run supported software and remove software versions with known > vulnerabilities. The compromise we've worked out for the researchers is to > have them track which software versions they used for a particular run/data > release. The researchers who care more will have a validation suite that > will (hopefully) call out problems as we do required upgrades. > > At some point, it's simply unrealistic to keep legacy systems around, > though we do have a lab that needs a Solaris/SPARC system just to run a > 15-year-old component of a pipeline for which they don't have source code... > > -- > -- Skylar Thompson ([email protected]) > -- Genome Sciences Department, System Administrator > -- Foege Building S046, (206)-685-7354 > -- University of Washington School of Medicine > _______________________________________________ > gpfsug-discuss mailing list > gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org > http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss _______________________________________________ gpfsug-discuss mailing list gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss
