On Thu, Feb 20, 2020 at 12:14:40PM -0500, David Johnson wrote: > Instead of keeping whole legacy systems around, could they achieve the same > with a container built from the legacy software?
That is our hope, at least once we can get off CentOS 6 and run containers. :) Though containers aren't quite a panacea; there's still the issue of insecure software being baked into the container, but at least we can limit what the container can access more easily than running outside a container. > > On Feb 20, 2020, at 11:59 AM, Skylar Thompson <skyl...@uw.edu> 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 (skyl...@u.washington.edu) > > -- 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 -- -- Skylar Thompson (skyl...@u.washington.edu) -- 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