Hi all, We initially deployed easybuild with three repositories for nehalem, sandybridge and haswell. Now with availability of skylake and znver1 the question arises what is the best way to introduce new arch.
Does it make sense to rebuild everything from foss-2015 and -2016 on new machines? If I understand things correctly, only foss-2017b can start taking advantage of avx512. I assume you want to provide all the existing modules under all architectures, to provide uniform view to the users. Can the modules subdir from eg haswell can just be copied over under skylake? Modulefiles have full paths so I assume this should work? Currently I just symlink znver1 to haswell and it seems to work fine, no illegal instructions or unexplained crashes. How do other sites deal with this? Do we have some notes online somewhere on this? Also, looking forward to 3.6 with "vectorize by default" for gcc. -- Jurij Pečar HPC Engineer, IT Operations, IT Services EMBL Heidelberg, Meyerhofstraße 1, 69117, Heidelberg, Germany Room 13-401
