Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.1.0

CycleCloud 8.1.0 is now available.

New Features:

• Evicted spot nodes are now detected immediately
• New Support button shows cluster details for support and diagnostics
• Log directories can now be uploaded to Azure Storage from nodes via jetpack report_issue command
• 'Exclusive' flag is now supported in Grid Engine autoscaling plugin
• Univa GridEngine cluster provides intelligent resource management and deep integration with native gridengine resources; hostgroups, parallel environments, queues, complexes.
• Added 'Enterprise Linux 8' support for compute nodes.
• 'OpenPBS v20.0.1 with Enterprise Linux 8' is now available.
• cyclecloud-scalelib, a python library used to write your own autoscaler, is now GA
• Slurm template supports enabling SlurmDBD on Slurm 20.11+
• Nodes can now be deployed into an existing proximity placement group
• The full URN for a selected image is now displayed in the UI
• Jetpack now uses Python 3.8

Resolved Issues:

• 'DefaultValue' was incorrectly ignored by the region 'ParameterType' in cluster templates
• NFS worked incorrectly on some systemd based platforms.

Read the release notes.