Here is a list of important changes at Lyon-CC
Next maintenance outage planned for March 2017: two new routers will be installed
VMs and containers are hot topics at Lyon-CC
AFS will stop working before end of 2018
$THRONG directories --> NFSv4 mount in /pbs/throng (PBS: Permanent Backed-up Storage)
Daily snaphots, and back up with TSM (Tivoli)
THRONG directory for Web: /pbs/www or SPS ? (default for CentOS 7 hosts: smooth migration)
$HOME directories --> /pbs/home
/usr/local --> pbs ? /pbs/throng/group for software
New NAS Isilon (110 TB)
Soon: 2x800 GB SSD for meta-data
Databases: ongoing migration from MySQL to MariaDB. Should be complete before end of 2017.
Oracle will be updated to version 12c in 2017
Latest UGE update in December 2016 added full Docker support, plus virtual WNs and GPU WNs.
Docker feature not yet available, documentation still missing. Should be fixed in the next few months.
Migration from SL6 to CentOS 7. 10 WNs running CentOS 7 are available for testing (use -l os=cl7 to submit jobs to those hosts)
RAL (UK) already switched to CentOS 7, offers SL6 containers on demand