BC News

Release Date: 03 August 2011
Last Updated: 29 August 2012

The Baseline Configuration (BC) Initiative has been working for the past six years on behalf of the DoD user community in defining and developing a common set of capabilities and functions so that users work more productively and effectively on allocated HPCMP resources. To date, over thirty policies have been published in the following five major categories.

Development Environment

• Common Compiling Environments (March 2012)
• Baseline Set of Debuggers (January 2006)
• Debug Queue Limits (August 2010)
• Baseline Editors and Scripting Tools (February 2006)
• Common Set of Environment Variables (July 2005)
• Use of Modules for Accessing Multiple Versions of Software (March 2008)
• Common Modules Environment (March 2012)
• Multiple Version Software (October 2006)
• Common Set of Open Source Compilers (October 2008)
• Common Open Source High Productivity Languages (June 2010)
• Common Set of Open Source Math Libraries (March 2006)
• Common Open Source Performance and Profiling Tools (April 2007)
• Common Set of Open Source Utilities (September 2006)

Customer Account Support

• Allocation Expiration Notice (January 2006)
• Baseline Set of Login Shells and User Selection (December 2005)
• Common User Group Naming (October 2011)
• Standardized User Notices (April 2007)

Customer Services

• Advance Reservation (February 2009)
• Common Archival Retrieval (April 2006)
• Decommission of HPC Allocated Systems (April 2013)
• Common DSRC Commands and Tools (August 2011)
• ezVIZ Visualization Tool (July 2008)
• Cross-Center File Transfers (October 2006)
• Minimum Home Directory Size and Backup Schedule (August 2012)
• Interactive Job Submittal Scripts (September 2011)
• Common Location to Maintain Codes (September 2011)
• MPI Test Suite (September 2011)
• Consistency in Number of Characters in a Project Identifier (July 2010)
• Common Queue Names (October 2005)
• HPC Round Robin Implementation (August 2011)
• Sample Code Repository (May 2007)
• Minimum Scratch Space Retention Time (March 2006)
• New/Returning User Welcome Letter (October 2009)

Security

• Consistent Program-Wide Kerberos/SSH Access (January 2006)
• Kerberos Ticket Life Documentation (October 2005)

System Configuration

• Announcing and Logging Changes (September 2009)
• Common Change Control Rollback (April 2006)
• Sustained System Performance (SSP) Test Job Execution (April 2010)