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SL6 upgrade for RAT Unit
Description: Upgrade all Research and Teaching Unit servers and services to use the SL6 Operating system.
Deliverables: All Services and Servers using SL6.
Customer: School
Case statement: This is inevitable as required by the eventual loss of SL5 and discontinuation of support by RHEL, SL and Informatics.
Status: RAT servers are already starting to be converted to SL6 as new hardware or services are installed. The project is effectively underway so this is an attempt to track and coordinate progress.
Timescales:
Priority:
Time: Estimated at four weeks, not including Beowulf cluster.
Proposal:
Resources: One CO to coordinate; additional CO time to convert own services; CSO to schedule and perform machine re-installation.
One (existing) SL6_64 server for purposes of compute server user testing.
Plan:
Dependencies: Multiple services
Risks: Research users unwilling/unable to convert code.
Proprietary software where modern (64-bit / glibc) builds are unavailable.
URL: https://wiki.inf.ed.ac.uk/DICE/RATSL6Upgrade
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