RELEASED: HPE Cray Programming Environment 24.11 General Availability Release for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems with HPCM 1.12 RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.12 RHEL 9.4 – January 2025

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The HPE Cray Programming Environment 24.11 release for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing systems is now available for HPCM 1.12 RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.12 RHEL 9.4 systems.

The following software is supported with this release:

HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM) 1.12 - managed systems running RHEL 8.10 or RHEL 9.4 on the compute/login nodes.

SOFTWARE OVERVIEW

This software announcement applies to HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and/or HPE Cray Supercomputing HPCM 1.12 RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.12 RHEL 9.4 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):

HPE Cray Programming Environment DOCS for HPCM 24.11-DOCS
HPE Cray Programming Environment (CPE) 24.11 Software for HPCM

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

Content for HPCM 1.12 RHEL 8.10 and HPCM 1.12 RHEL 9.4 Systems:

cpe-24.11-rhel-8-10-hpcm-24.11.2.tar.gz
cpe-24.11-rhel-9-4-hpcm-24.11.2.tar.gz

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 4.2.0

AMD ROCm 6.2.1

Intel OneAPI 2024.2.0

NVIDIA HPC SDK Unsupported

CUDA Unsupported

GCC 13

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.

Installation Guide

HPE Cray Programming Environment Installation Guide: HPCM on HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems (24.11)

HPE_CPE_Installation_Guide_HPCM_on_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX_Systems_24.11.pdf

User Guide

HPE Cray Programming Environment User Guide: HPCM on HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems (24.11)

HPE_CPE_User_Guide_HPCM_on_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX_Systems_24.11.pdf

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 24.11.0 and PAPI 7.1.0.4 included with CPE 24.11 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: 24.11/ 25.03 HPE HPC Software 2025 roadmap update for HPE Cray systems with NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. The NVIDIA driver support for SLES15 SP6 was not available before code completion dates, as a result, the January 2025 HPE HPC continuous software stack releases are for HPE Cray EX systems without NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. For HPE Cray EX Systems with NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs, please use the August 2024 (CPE 24.07) HPE HPC continuous software stack. These software stacks were validated with NVIDIA HPC SDK 24.3. The March 2025 HPE HPC continuous and extended software stack releases will be validated with NVIDIA HPC SDK 24.11 and will support all HPE CRAY EX systems.

CPE 24.11 Product Versions:

NOTE: Use of **** indicates a new or updated component version compared to CPE 24.07.

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


Cray Compiling Environment – CCE
cce 18.0.1 ****

Cray Message Passing Toolkit - CMPT
cray-mpich 8.1.31 ****
cray-mpixlate 1.0.6 ****
cray-dsmml 0.3.0
cray-pmi 6.1.15
cray-openshmemx 11.7.3 ****

Application Launch Tools - ALT

Cray Debugging Support Tools – CDST
cray-cti 2.19.0 ****
gdb4hpc 4.16.3 ****
cray-ccdb 5.0.5 ****
cray-stat 4.12.4 ****
atp 3.15.5 ****
valgrind4hpc 2.13.4 ****
sanitizers4hpc 1.1.4 ****
cray-dyninst 12.3.4 ****
cray-mrnet 5.1.4 ****
cray-zmqnet 1.0.0 ****

Cray Performance Measurement & Analysis Tools – CPMAT
perftools 24.11.0 ****
cray-papi 7.1.0.4 ****

Cray Scientific and Math Libraries - CSML
cray-libsci 24.11.0 ****
cray-libsci-acc 24.11.0 ****
cray-fftw 3.3.10.9 ****

Cray Deep Learning Tools
craype-dl-plugin-ftr 22.06.1.2
craype-dl-plugin-py3 22.12.1

Cray Environment Setup and Compiling support – CENV
craypkg-gen 1.3.34 ****
craype 2.7.33 ****
cpe-prgenv 8.6.0 ****
cray-lmod 8.7.37
cray-modules 3.2.11.7

Third party products
cray-hdf5 1.14.3.3 ****
cray-netcdf 4.9.0.15 ****
cray-parallel-netcdf 1.12.3.15 ****
cray-python 3.11.7
cray-R 4.4.0

Third-party products supported
Totalview 2024.1.21

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