Table of Contents
2.16 Release Notes
Highlighted Functions and Changes in Behavior
Features
Operating System Support
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RHEL 8.1 and SLES 15
- For complete list of supported operating systems see xCAT2 Release Information and Compute node support matrix
Highlighted Changes
Restrictions and Known Issues
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When provisioning a node with a diskfull install of RHEL 8.X and installing the NVIDIA CUDA 11 drivers and toolkit as part of the
osimage pkglist
, the diskfull installation fails due to changes in the NVIDIA CUDA packages that are incompatible with kickstart installation. This issue only applies to diskfull installation; diskless installation is not impacted.There are two available workarounds for this issue:
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The NVIDIA CUDA 11 packages can be added to the
osimage otherpkglist
instead of theosimage pkglist
. This method will require an additional reboot after installation completes for the NVIDIA driver to be loaded. -
xCAT provides a sample postscript that can be used as an example of how to install the NVIDIA CUDA packages for diskfull installs instead of relying on the
osimage
mechanisms. This sample postscript is available here:
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xCAT Documentation
xCAT documentation is hosted on ReadTheDocs: http://xcat-docs.readthedocs.io/
Download xCAT
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xcat-core
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-core-2.16.0-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-core-2.16.0-ubuntu.tar.bz2
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xcat-dep
- RHEL/SLES - xcat-dep-2.16.0-linux.tar.bz2
- Ubuntu - xcat-dep-2.16.0-ubuntu.tar.bz2
Test Environment
Hardware Platform and Operating Systems which have been verified:
Hardware Platform | Operation System |
---|---|
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.1 |
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL 8.0 |
IBM Power System AC922 | RHEL-Alt 7.6 |
IBM Power System AC922 | SLES 15.0 |
IBM Power System AC922 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 8.1 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 8.0 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.7 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | RHEL 7.6 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
IBM Power S822LC for HPC | SLES 12.3 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.1 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 8.0 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | RHEL 7.6 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 16.04.5 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | Ubuntu 18.04.2 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 15.0 |
iDataPlex M4 DX360 | SLES 12.3 |
Pull Requests and Issues Resolved
News
- Apr 22, 2016: xCAT 2.11.1 released.
- Mar 11, 2016: xCAT 2.9.3 (AIX only) released.
- Dec 11, 2015: xCAT 2.11 released.
- Nov 11, 2015: xCAT 2.9.2 (AIX only) released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT 2.10 released.
- Jul 30, 2015: xCAT migrates from sourceforge to github
- Jun 26, 2015: xCAT 2.7.9 released.
- Mar 20, 2015: xCAT 2.9.1 released.
- Dec 12, 2014: xCAT 2.9 released.
- Sep 5, 2014: xCAT 2.8.5 released.
- May 23, 2014: xCAT 2.8.4 released.
- Jan 24, 2014: xCAT 2.7.8 released.
- Nov 15, 2013: xCAT 2.8.3 released.
- Jun 26, 2013: xCAT 2.8.2 released.
- May 17, 2013: xCAT 2.7.7 released.
- May 10, 2013: xCAT 2.8.1 released.
- Feb 28, 2013: xCAT 2.8 released.
- Nov 30, 2012: xCAT 2.7.6 released.
- Oct 29, 2012: xCAT 2.7.5 released.
- Aug 27, 2012: xCAT 2.7.4 released.
- Jun 22, 2012: xCAT 2.7.3 released.
- May 25, 2012: xCAT 2.7.2 released.
- Apr 20, 2012: xCAT 2.7.1 released.
- Mar 19, 2012: xCAT 2.7 released.
- Mar 15, 2012: xCAT 2.6.11 released.
- Jan 23, 2012: xCAT 2.6.10 released.
- Nov 15, 2011: xCAT 2.6.9 released.
- Sep 30, 2011: xCAT 2.6.8 released.
- Aug 26, 2011: xCAT 2.6.6 released.
- May 20, 2011: xCAT 2.6 released.
- Feb 14, 2011: Watson plays on Jeopardy and is managed by xCAT!
- xCAT Release Notes Summary
- xCAT OS And Hw Support Matrix
- xCAT Test Environment Summary
History
- Oct 22, 2010: xCAT 2.5 released.
- Apr 30, 2010: xCAT 2.4 is released.
- Oct 31, 2009: xCAT 2.3 released.
xCAT's 10 year anniversary! - Apr 16, 2009: xCAT 2.2 released.
- Oct 31, 2008: xCAT 2.1 released.
- Sep 12, 2008: Support for xCAT 2
can now be purchased! - June 9, 2008: xCAT breaths life into
(at the time) the fastest
supercomputer on the planet - May 30, 2008: xCAT 2.0 for Linux
officially released! - Oct 31, 2007: IBM open sources
xCAT 2.0 to allow collaboration
among all of the xCAT users. - Oct 31, 1999: xCAT 1.0 is born!
xCAT started out as a project in
IBM developed by Egan Ford. It
was quickly adopted by customers
and IBM manufacturing sites to
rapidly deploy clusters.