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Researchers need to recompile their own software that has been built previously on Setonix. This is necessary because the CPE has newer versions of various libraries, to ensure the best possible performance and avoid iissues.
For own software installed with Spack, do this:
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We have made available a new container MPICH 3.4.3 base image built from Ubuntu 20.04 that does not suffer from incompatibilities with the new host libraries. The recipe (Dockerfile) of this base image can be found here: https://github.com/PawseySC/pawsey-containers/blob/master/mpi/mpich-base/buildmpich.dockerfile and the build MPICH base image Dockerfile and the built image has been uploaded already to our Pawsey's quay.io registry. Then, users with own MPI containers will need to update the base image in their own Dockerfile recipes to start from:
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Users can check some practical examples of this in our recently rebuilt containers of OpenFOAM. For example: https://github.com/PawseySC/pawsey-containers/blob/master/OpenFOAM/openfoam/v2212/Dockerfile.