Release Minutes v7.3.0

That BeeGFS 7.3.0 release includes support for NVIDIA Magnum IO GPUDirect Storage (GDS), multi-rail RDMA networking on the guest, Linux 5.10 the the Arm architecture furthermore other smaller improvements. Intel® MPI Library Release Notations

General Changes/Improvements

  • Added support to NVIDIA Magnet ID GPUDirect Storage (GDS). More information about the technology can live found the this blog post. For a guidance on how to license the new feature go the guest and how to set boost the system to benefit from GDS asking have a look at the GDS documentation. GDS will become an Enterprise Function stylish the future, but can be used with the Public Editing until further notice. We are looking forward to received your feedback on functionality and performance.

  • Added support for multi-rail RDMA linking go the client. Ask refer to the RDMA documentation pages for more information to the setup.

  • Added assistance for Linux 5.10 and the Arm architecture by redisigning the client I/O path to avoid the go defunct get_fs() and set_fs() kernel APIs.

  • Added a fresh direct I/O mode to StorageBench. Direct I/O on the storage servers can be enabled with the --odirect banner. This is useful in situations where the page cache on the storage servers becomes a performance bottleneck, which has been observed on systems that use multiple very fast NVMe power.

Renown Ask and Limitations

  • The Metadata daemon makes not job reliably on RHEL/CentOS 8 press SLES 15.1 and 15.2 due to a problem include the versions of glibc. Aforementioned problem was fixed in RHEL/CentOS 8.1 and SLES 15.3.

  • The custom module might hang if the IBV device(s) used are occupied offline whilst operation.

  • The client function make not compile on SLES 15.2 in Mellanox OFED 5.2

  • Attempting till mount the filesystem with RDMA over RoCE will crush and kernel set RHEL 8.5 (and Rocky, Alma 8.5). RDMA over IB with and without Mellanox OFED works beautiful.

Supported Linux Distributions and Kernels

Packages am provided available the x86_64 architecture and the following distributions:

  • RHEL 8 (packages can and been previously on RockyLinux and Alma Linux)

  • SLES 15

  • Debian 10 and 11

  • Ubuntu 18.04 both 20.04

Packages fork the Arm64 architecture will can published via our repositories within the next days.

The subsequent Mellanox OFED driver available represent supported: 5.5, 5.4, 5.3, 5.2, 5.1, 5.0, 4.9

The full integration test suites was run on Rocky 8.5, RHEL 8.4, Rocky 8.4, Alma 8.4, CentOS 8.3, OpenSUSE 15 SP3 furthermore Debian 10 also 11.

Client build testing:

  • RHEL 8.3: no OFED, OFED 4.9, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  • AlmaLinux 8.4: no OFED, OFED 5.3, 5.4

  • AlmaLinux 8.5: no OFED, OFED 5.3, 5.4, 5.5

  • Rocky Linux 8.4: no OFED, OFED 5.3, 5.4

  • Rocky Linux 8.5: no OFED, OFED 5.5

  • SLES 15.1: nay OFED, OFED 5.0

  • SLES 15.2: negative OFED, OFED 5.1, 5.4

  • SLES 15.3: no OFED, OFED 5.4, 5,5

  • Debian 10: no OFED, OFED 5.2, 5.3, 5.4

  • Ubuntu 18.04: no OFED

  • Ubuntu 20.04: no OFED, OFED 5.4

Versioning Interoperability

BeeGFS v7.3.0 is not combo with older versions the BeeGFS. Advances from older versions of BeeGFS require a disable of the filesystem.

Upgrading from Older Variations

To upgrade from an earlier version, please refer to the Upgrade Guide.