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Cori Timeline

This page records a brief timeline of significant events and user environment changes on Cori (in reverse chronological order). Please also refer to the detailed history of Cori PE software default versions.

Jun 7, 2023

User access to Cori login nodes and Cori Scratch file system discontinued at noon.

May 31, 2023

Cori was retired on May 31, 2023, at noon (Pacific time).

Apr 30, 2023

Cori will be retired at the end of April 2023. See more details at Migrate from Cori to Perlmutter page.

Mar 31, 2023

Cori GPU nodes were retired and large memory nodes were taken offline at noon.

Feb 22-23, 2023

Slurm upgrade from 21.08 to 22.05.

Intel License Servers migration from Rancher1 to Rancher2.

Oct 20, 2022

Software freeze (no new user-facing software installed by NERSC).

July 20, 2022

Performance counters used by many performance profiling tools reenabled. They were temporarily disabled since May 25, 2022 to mitigate a security vulnerability.

Mar 16-17, 2022

Cori firmware upgrade and OS upgrade from CLE7.0UP01 to CLE7.1UP03.

Slurm upgrade from 20.11 to 21.08.

Programming Environment changes include new default versions (CDT/22.02, intel/19.1.2.254), old software removals (CDT/19.03, CDT/20.06, CDT/20.10), and new software available (CDT/22.02). Detailed lists can be found in the March 2022 notes.

Jan 19, 2022

New Allocation year started.

New charge factors based on Perlmutter CPU hours: the CPU charging unit changed from “NERSC hours” to “CPU Node hours”. One "CPU Node Hour" is the equivalent of 400 "NERSC Hours". The new charging factors are 0.34 on Haswell (equivalent to 140 in AY2021) and 0.2 on KNL (equivalent to 80 in AY2021).

July 9 -12, 2021

NERSC power maintenance.

Slurm upgrade from 20.02.6 to 20.11.8. The --overlap flag for srun is required for multiple sruns sharing nodes.

May 19-20, 2021

Enabled compile QOS for all users. Software upgrade (NEO 3.5) for Cori scratch file system.

Apr 21, 2021

Added flex QOS for Cori Haswell with the charging discount of 50%.
Regular Haswell jobs larger than 512 nodes now require reservation.

Jan 20, 2021

New Allocation year started.

premium QOS no longer available by default for all users. PIs need to manually authorize individual users to use premium. The charge factor for premium will be doubled (from 2x of regular QOS to 4x) once a project has used 20% of its allocation on "premium".

Python pip in the default Python module (python/3.8-anaconda-2020.11) and Python3 module (an alias to the default Python module) is changed by prepending PYTHONUSERBASE/bin to PATH.

Nov 18, 2020

Programming Environment changes included new software available (cdt/20.10 and intel/19.1.2.254) and old software removal (cdt/20.03) after scheduled maintenance. Detailed lists can be found in the November 2020 notes.

Aug 19, 2020

Default setting for adaptive routing on the Aires network (the environment variable setting of MPICH_GNI_ROUTINE_MODE) was changed from ADAPTIVE_0 (least bias towards minimal) to ADAPTIVE_3 (high minimal bias) for the benefit of the majority of NERSC workloads. More details can be found at our network page.

Jul 10-13, 2020

NERSC power upgrade.

Programming Environment changes include new software available (CDT/20.06) and old software removal (CDT/19.06) after scheduled maintenance. Detailed lists can be found in the July 2020 notes.

Memory limit (128 GB on login nodes and workload nodes, 42 GB on Jupyter nodes) and CPU limit (50% CPU on login nodes, workload nodes, and Jupyter nodes) on a per-user basis are in place.

Slurm updated from version 19.05.5 to 20.02.3. Slurm 20.02 brings fixes, performance improvements, and new capabilities designed by NERSC to better integrate experimental facility workloads.

Software upgrade (NEO 3.4) for Cori scratch file system.

Apr 22, 2020

Software upgrade (NEO 3.2) for Cori scratch file system.

Programming Environment changes include new software available (CDT/20.03) after scheduled maintenance. New intel versions 19.0.8.324 and 19.1.0.166 have already been installed as of Apr 1. Detailed lists can be found in the April 2020 notes.

VTune default version change (from 2019.up3 to 2020).

Feb 21 - 24, 2020

NERSC power upgrade.

Dotfiles setup change to more standard Linux system settings. User dotfiles are no longer symlinks to NERSC-defined dotfiles.

Jan 17, 2020

Community File System (CFS) is available as a fully functional file system with general read/write access on Cori, the data transfer nodes, the science gateways, and Spin.

Jan 14, 2020

New Allocation Year started.

SW default change to CDT 19.11 after scheduled maintenance at the Allocation Year Transition. Dynamic linking becomes default. Please see the detailed list in the December 2019 and January 2020 notes.

New charge factors for Haswell (140, increase from 90) and KNL (80, decrease from 90).

Python 2 retires, Python 3 becomes default.

Community File System data sync begins.

Slurm updated from version 19.05.3 to 19.05.5. Configuration changes made to help with the performance of LDAP queries and to give more SLURM a little more time to evaluate the system and queues so it can make better informed scheduling decisions。

Dec 5-6, 2019

OS upgrade from CLE7.0UP00 to CLE7.0UP01.

Programming Environment changes include new software available (CDT/19.11) after scheduled maintenance. Detailed lists can be found in the December 2019 and January 2020 notes.

Sept 10-12, 2019

Lustre file system (ClusterStor) upgrade from NEO2 to NEO3.1.

Jul 29, 2019

Large jobs discount for job use 1,024 or more KNL nodes increased from 40% to 50%.

Jul 26-30, 2019

NERSC power upgrade, Cori OS upgrade from CLE6.0UP07 to CLE7.0UP00.

Slurm upgrade from 18.08 to 19.05.

Programming Environment changes include new default versions (CDT/19.03, intel/19.0.3.199), old software removals (CDT/18.03, CDT/18.09, CDT/18.12), and new software available (CDT/19.06). Also, craype-hugepages2M is loaded by default. Detailed lists can be found in the July 2019 notes.

Jun 10, 2019

flex QOS jobs discount decreased from 100% (i.e., free) to 75%. low QOS jobs discount decreased from 50% to 25%.

Apr 23, 2019

Added flex QOS for Cori KNL, and free of charge.

Apr 10, 2019

Programming Environment changes include old software removals (CDT/17.09), and new software available (CDT/19.03 and intel/19.0.3.199) after scheduled maintenance. Detailed lists can be found in the April 2019 notes.

Mar 14, 2019

Large jobs discount for job use 1,024 or more KNL nodes increased from 20% to 40%.

Feb 13, 2019

Added low QOS for Cori KNL.

Jan 8, 2019

Programming Environment changes include new default versions (CDT/18.12), old software removals (CDT/18.06), and new software available (CDT/18.12) after scheduled maintenance at the Allocation Year Rollover. Detailed lists can be found in the January 2019 notes.

New charge factors for Haswell (90, increase from 80) and KNL (90, decrease from 96).

Oct 17, 2018

Slurm upgrade from 17.11 to 18.08.

Sept 19, 2018

OS upgrade from CLE6.0UP05 to CLE6.0UP07.

Programming Environment changes include old software removals (CDT/17.12), and new software available (CDT/18.09 and intel/18.0.3.222) after scheduled maintenance. Detailed lists can be found in the September 2018 notes.

Jul 11, 2018

Programming Environment changes include new default versions (CDT/18.03), old software removals (CDT/17.06), and new software available (CDT/18.06) after scheduled maintenance. Detailed lists can be found in the July 2018 notes.

May 8-9, 2018

OS upgrade from CLE6.0UP04 to CLE6.0UP05.

VTune default change to 2018.up2.

Jan 9, 2018

Slurm upgrade from 17.02 to 17.11. Users need only specify a QOS in batch scripts instead of a partition.

Intel default version changed from 18.0.0.128 to 18.0.1.163. SW default change to CDT 17.09 after scheduled maintenance. Please see the detailed list in the January 2018 notes.

Nov 7, 2017

Cori accepted.

Oct 6-9, 2017

Maintenance on the EPO (Emergency Power Off) and water system for the large systems.

Intel default version changed from 17.0.2.174 to 18.0.0.128.

Aug 8-10, 2017

OS upgrade from CLE6.0UP03 to CLE6.0UP04.

SW default change to CDT 17.06 after scheduled maintenance. Please see the detailed list in the August 2017 notes.

Jul 1, 2017

Charging on Cori KNL began. Large Jobs using 1,024 or more KNL nodes receive 20\% charging discount.

May 30, 2017

All users enabled on Cori KNL without restriction.

Apr 18 - Apr 21, 2017

Two new Haswell cabinets (384 compute nodes) added to the system. The new total number of Haswell nodes becomes 2,388. The total number of all nodes (2,388 Haswell plus 9,688 KNL) on Cori becomes 12,076.

Mar 22 - Mar 24, 2017

OS upgrade from CLE6.0UP01 to CLE6.0UP03. Software default changes: vtune from 2017.up01 to 2017.up02; perftools from 6.4.2 to 6.4.6.

Mar 16, 2017

In order to work around an Intel compiler bug in versions 17.0.1.132 and 17.0.2.144, the default setting of Fortran buffered I/O was turned off, i.e.,(the environment variable of FORT_BUFFERED=1 has been removed.

Feb 28 - Mar 3, 2017

Two new KNL cabinets (384 compute nodes) added to the system. The new total number of KNL nodes became 9,688. Slurm updated from version 16.05 to 17.02.

Feb 6, 2017

Selected users' Cori scratch directories now managed by new Meta Data Servers.

Jan 30, 2017

Cori scratch mounted on NERSC Data Transfer Nodes (DTNs) to allow fast data moving between NERSC and other facilities.

Dec 20, 2016

All users access to Cori KNL. Intel compiler default version changed from 16.0.3.210 to 17.0.1.132.

Nov 2016

Cori KNL access for NESAP teams.

Nov 19, 2016

SW default changed to CDT 16.10 after scheduled maintenance. Please see the detailed list in the November 2016 notes.

Sept 19 - Oct 31, 2016

Cori Haswell and KNL cabinets integration. Haswell nodes returned to users on Oct 31.

Running jobs changed for getting optimal process and thread affinity. Use srun -c and srun --cpu_bind=cores when needed. Also enforce -C haswell to request Haswell nodes.

Jul 20, 2016

Cori $SCRATCH available as $CSCRATCH on Cori and Edison.

Jul 2016

Cori KNL cabinets arrival. First cabinets arrived on July 13.

Jul 4, 2016

Introduced Slurm file license features.

Jun 13 - 30, 2016

OS upgrade to Rhine/Redwood (CLE6) to prepare for KNL arrival. SW default changed to CDT 16.06 after CRT power outage. Please see the detailed list in the June 2016 notes.

May 20, 2016

Burst Buffer on Cori Phase 1 accepted.

May 11, 2016

CUG Best Paper Award for Burst Buffer Early User Program

May 9, 2016

long (1 node, 96-hr) job QOS available.

Mar 1, 2016

Scratch file system regular purge started.

Mar 21, 2016

Cori Phase 1 compute nodes accepted.

Feb 27, 2016

SW default changed to CDT 16.01 after CRT power outage. Please see the detailed list in the February 2016 notes.

Jan 12, 2016

New allocation year AY16 started. Cori usage started charging. New SSH Key Authentication Mechanism became mandatory.

Dec 4, 2015

realtime partition enabled.

Nov 17, 2015

SSH host key changed to use 4096-bit new RSA key. Host based SSH authentication works.

Nov 11, 2015

Burst Buffer enabled for early users.

Oct 29 - Nov 12, 2015

Early users were enabled in 7 phases. All users were enabled by Nov 12, 2015.

Sept 29, 2015

Cori Phase 1 (along with Burst Buffer) delivered.