Generally available: Azure HPC – CycleCloud 8.1.1

CycleCloud 8.1.1 is now available.

New Features:

• Slurm is updated to 20.11.4 and supports CentOS 8 and Ubuntu 18.
• Infiniband-based SKUs have accelerated networking disabled by default, to avoid device-ordering issues

Resolved Issues:

• MPI jobs in Slurm failed due to missing slurm-libmpi
• Setting webServerContextPath in cycle_server.properties did not work properly
• Pre-installing Jetpack on an image would incorrectly report an installation failure.
• Default NFS mounting options were incompatible with NFS version 3
• Jetpack PATH was incorrectly ordered on Windows.
• Nodes whose images had embedded data disks could not be restarted once terminated
• CycleCloud 7.x clusters would not run cluster-init if CycleCloud was upgraded to version 8
• When scaling up large clusters, CycleCloud's self-throttling was too strict, keeping it from making progress
• Execute nodes would sometimes get "resource not found" errors that would prevent scaling up
• Healthcheck did not support Python3
• Evicted spot nodes for MPI jobs in Slurm could not be restarted
• In some cases, nodes would not start with the following error: "This node does not match existing scaleset attributes: Configuration.cyclecloud.mounts.additional_nfs.export_path, Configuration.cyclecloud.mounts.additional_nfs.mountpoint"
• In certain cases, execute nodes could not be restarted after editing the cluster through the UI
• Nodes with disks that referenced snapshots could not be started
• Jetpack would incorrectly handle a list of IP addresses for network shares
• The restore.sh script failed because it tried to start the (now-removed) broker service
• Waiting for CloudInit would timeout after 5 minutes (increased to 60 minutes)
• Page rendering was broken in some versions of Safari
• The image picker displayed the incorrect image ID for CentOS 7
• CycleCloud CLI incorrectly used the deprecated tostring() method on arrays
• CycleCloud encountered a "Conversion: 2" error when processing insufficient-quota error messages for VMs
• Mitigated CVE issue 2020-25649

Retired:

• Removed legacy SAML support

Read the release notes.