RELEASED: The HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment 26.03 General Availability Release for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems with HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.6 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.5 – March 2026

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment 26.03 release for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing systems is now available for HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.6 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.5 systems.

The following software is supported with this release:

  • HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM) 1.15 - managed systems running RHEL 8.10 or RHEL 9.6 or RHEL 9.5 on the compute/login nodes.

SOFTWARE OVERVIEW

This software announcement applies to HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and/or HPE Cray Supercomputing HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.6 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.5 systems.

HPE Cray Programming Environment licensed customers may download the release materials by submitting a request to HPE PointNext for the respective package below (depending on entitlement):

  • The HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment DOCS for HPCM 26.03-DOCS

  • The HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment (CPE) 26.03 Software for HPCM

\ See “module help <product>” for the corresponding PE product release notes.

\ Content for HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.6 and HPCM 1.15 USS NA RHEL 9.5 Systems:

  • cpe-26.3.9-rhel-8-10-x86_64.iso

  • cpe-26.3.9-rhel-9-6-x86_64.iso

  • cpe-26.3.9-rhel-9-6-aarch64.iso

  • cpe-26.3.9-rhel-9-5-x86_64.iso

  • cpe-26.3.9-rhel-9-5-aarch64.iso

NOTE: The single tarfile(s) above contain base PE as well as optional installation of other third-party compiler support.

  • REQUIRED: Base PE

  • OPTIONAL:

  • AMD AOCC 5.0

  • AMD ROCm NA & 7.0

  • Intel OneAPI 2025.2.1

  • NVIDIA HPC SDK 25.9

  • GCC 14

Product End-of-Life Notification

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In lieu of the emerging Next Generation Programming Experience (NGPE), the HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment (CPE) will reach its final release with CPE version 26.03. After this release, no further CPE versions will be issued. However, HPE will support CPE 26.03 for 15 months after that final release, providing production-critical fixes only and only for CPE components that are not being carried forward into the Next Generation Programming Experience. No renewals or extensions beyond current contractual agreements will be available after the 15-month support period ends.

What this means for you: If you are running CPE, you will have a stable, supported version (26.03) and a defined 15-month window for receiving critical fixes after final release. Non-critical updates, feature development for supported components, and long-term fixes will be provided in the Next Generation Programming Experience rather than in CPE. Existing CPE “recipes” will continue to be supported, where it depends on other products; support for each recipe will follow related product dependencies and lifecycles.

Note: HPE, at its sole discretion, reserves the right to consider product enhancement for sustainment purposes during the product’s EOL process.

For questions about the timeline, migration planning, or how this impacts your contract, please contact your HPE account team or support representative.

Documentation

NOTE: As of CPE 24.11 and later, HPE discontinued providing CPE release announcement and user guide documentation on the HPE Support Center web page. CPE 24.11 (and later) release announcement and user guides, along with installation guides, are now available on the CPE Documentation site. CPE installation guides for all CPE versions can still be accessed from the HPE Support Center web page. CPE 24.07 and earlier documentation, including user guides, installation guides, release announcements, and related revision documentation, can also be found on the HPE Support Center web page.

CPE 26.03 Installation and User Guides

Document Title/Filename

Document Part Number

Included in .tar File?

CPE Documentation Site

HPE Support Center

HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment Installation Guide: HPCM on HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems (26.03) S-8022

S-8022

Y

Y

Y

HPE_CPE_Installation_Guide_HPCM_on_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX _systems_26.03_S-8022.pdf

HPE Supercomputing Cray Programming Environment Getting Started User Guide: HPE Cray Supercomputing EX Systems (26.03) S-9934

S-9934

N

Y

Y

HPE_CPE_Getting_Started_User_Guide_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX_Systems_26.03_S-9934.pdf

HPE_CPE_Getting_Started_User_Guide_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX_Systems_26.03_S-9934.pdf

HPE Supercomputing Cray Programming Environment Getting Started Administrator Guide: HPE Cray Supercomputing EX Systems (26.03) S-9935

S-9935

N

Y

Y

HPE_CPE_Getting_Started_Administrator_Guide_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX_Systems_26.03_S-9935.pdf

General HPCM User Guide

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Cray Compiling Environment Overview

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Performance Analysis Tools User Guide

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Cray Cassini Performance Counters User Guide

N/A

N

Y

N

Other Documentation

  • CPE-26.03-HPCM-Release-Announcement.md

\ HPE CPE Release Information Available on the CPE Documentation site for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX Systems

The information posted includes the release notes for each HPE CPE release starting with 24.03 along with other CPE related information. The release notes files will also continue to be posted as part of the release packages.

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • NOTE: NVIDIA HPC SDK releases include three versions of CUDA. For each new SDK version supported by HPE, Cray PE supports only the latest CUDA version included in the respective NVIDIA HPC SDKrelease (i.e., the older two CUDA versions are not supported by CPE when a new SDK is supported).

  • NOTE: The Red Hat GCC Toolset provides the cc compiler driver that will conflict with the craype driver. To ensure the environment’s PATH is correct, the craype module should always be reloaded after swapping or reloading the gcc-native module. You may run cc –craype-help to verify the correct executable is resolved.

  • NOTE: Perftools 26.03.0 and PAPI 7.1.0.4 included with CPE 26.03 are not compatible with ROCm earlier than 6.0.0, they require the use of ROCm 6.0.0 or later.

  • NOTE: PE-provided hugepage support has reduced functionality on RHEL 9 due to incompatibilities between glibc 2.34 and libhugetlbfs. Applications using the craype hugepage modules will not have dynamic memory allocations (eg, from malloc or new) automatically backed by hugepages. See https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/52 for technical details.

  • NOTE: Beginning in CPE 24.11, the NVHPC modules (PrgEnv-nvhpc, nvhpc, nvhpc-mixed) are no longer offered. The NVIDIA modules (PrgEnv-nvidia, nvidia, nvidia-mixed) are now the sole option for modules regarding the NVIDIA programing environment. The move to the NVIDIA modules is to complete the alignment of CPE module flows. The module flow for all environments is as follows:

  • Load an environment meta module (ie. PrgEnv-nvidia)

  • Environment meta module loads a compiler (ie. nvidia)

  • User can choose to load a toolkit (cuda, cudatoolkit)

  • NOTE: The March 2026 release will be the last RHEL 8.10 ESR.

  • NOTE: With CPE 26.03 (and later versions), SHMEM development, support, and maintenance has been removed from CPE and is now included and supported with the HPE Slingshot SHMEM Software product offering. To access information and download instructions for SHMEM, refer to the HPE Slingshot SHMEM Software Installation Guide (S-9030).

  • NOTE: Starting with CPE 26.03, HPE MPT MPIxlate is no longer included with CPE. MPIxlate was only supported with HPE Cray MPICH v8, which has been superseded by HPE Cray MPICH v9.

CPE 26.03 Product Versions:

NOTE: Use of **** indicates a new or updated component version compared to CPE 25.09.

The HPE Cray Supercomputing Programming Environment for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems with HPCM

Cray Compiling Environment – CCE

    cce 21.0.0 ****

Cray Message Passing Toolkit - CMPT

    cray-mpich 9.1.0 ****

    cray-pmi 6.1.17 ****

Cray Debugging Support Tools – CDST

    cray-cti 2.21.0 ****

    gdb4hpc 4.16.6 ****

    cray-stat 4.12.8 ****

    atp 3.15.7 ****

    valgrind4hpc 2.13.6 ****

    sanitizers4hpc 1.1.6 ****

    cray-dyninst 12.3.6 ****

    cray-mrnet 5.1.6 ****

    cray-zmqnet 1.3.2 ****

Cray Performance Measurement & Analysis Tools – CPMAT

    perftools 26.03.0 ****

    cray-papi 7.3.0.1 ****

Cray Scientific and Math Libraries - CSML

    cray-libsci 26.03.0 ****

    cray-libsci-acc 26.03.0 ****

    cray-fftw 3.3.10.11 ****

Cray Environment Setup and Compiling support – CENV

    craypkg-gen 1.3.37 ****

    craype 2.7.36 ****

    cpe-prgenv 8.7.0 ****

    cray-lmod 8.7.60 ****

    cray-modules 3.2.11.8 ****

Third party products

    cray-hdf5 1.14.3.9 ****

    cray-netcdf 4.9.2.3 ****

    cray-parallel-netcdf 1.12.3.21 ****

    cray-python 3.12.12 ****

    cray-R 4.4.0 ****

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