We're at the commissioning phase of the SL6 nodes for T3-Higgs. For that, Computing is providing a mirrored infra-structure, with all elements in SL6. You will have an interactive node called "t3-higgs-sl6" which is connected to SL6 worker-nodes.

All features you had before should work transparently but to make sure there is no risk, we're going through commissioning.

Assumptions :

• Jobs submitted from the usual SL5 interactive node (t3-higgs.ultralight.org) will land on SL5 worker-nodes.
• Jobs submitted from the new SL6 node, will land on SL6 worker-nodes.

Items to test :

• Workflows work as well
• Home directories are fine and behave as expected (no visible slowness)
• Compiling on home directories issue - Yi, Dustin and Alex know the issue well. There is hope that it will be gone on SL6.
• Hadoop access works as well

Instructions will appear here once all is in place.

-- Main.samir - 2015-02-26