Dear All
It has become apparent that the matter concerning future gLite WN
releases was not clear. Specifically, at the moment there is NO plan to
provide a gLite 3.2 WN release in a 32-bit version. The gLite 3.2 WN
package will ONLY be available on SL5 in a 64-bit version.
I am now aware that may cause significant problems for one GridPP site.
Are there any other sites running older kit that would not be able to
work with a 64-bit release?
Regards,
Jeremy
P.S At the current time there are no plans to stop supporting gLite 3.1
WNs on SL4. Given previous migration periods I believe we can expect the
32-bit SL4 release to be available and used for at least the next year,
but much will depend on how quickly the experiments move to SL5 and
64-bit. The 64-bit option has been a major problem for ATLAS due to an
almost doubling in the memory requirement, but I believe in the last
week the underlying cause of this has been understood and this barrier
will soon be removed. Anyway, the SL5 3.2 release comes with the 32-bit
libraries. So perhaps the driving issue is the timescale upon which the
experiments will migrate their applications to SL5 only. I am trying to
find out.
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