<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear SciServer Users<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The issue with the crashing kernel has been resolved. It turned out to be rather esoteric(*), but completely unrelated to the new compute images.</div><div class="">The newest ’SciServer’ images have been reinstated everywhere again, all newly started containers will contain updated software.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">kind regards</div><div class="">Jonas</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">(*) esoteric details:</div><div class="">It turns out Jupyter notebooks really really don’t like it if there is a subdirectory called ‘code’ with a __init__.py file in it.</div><div class="">This clashes with code.py from the Python standard library</div><div class=""><a href="https://docs.python.org/3/library/code.html" class="">https://docs.python.org/3/library/code.html</a></div><div class="">Please give you python modules a different descriptive name.</div><div class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25. Jan 2023, at 09:33, Jonas Haase <<a href="mailto:jhaase@mpe.mpg.de" class="">jhaase@mpe.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">Dear all</span><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><br class=""></div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">Most compute nodes have been restarted. Unfortunately this has not resolved the issue with the unstable kernel in Jupyter Notebooks.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">I have therefore rolled the ’Sciserver’ compute image back to a older version where it seems to work while I try to figure out what is wrong.</div><div class="" style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;">If you already have a container where things work as you want them to I would recommend to keep using that one for the time being.<br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Sorry for the inconvenience!</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Jonas</div><div class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 24. Jan 2023, at 14:26, Jonas Haase <<a href="mailto:jhaase@mpe.mpg.de" class="">jhaase@mpe.mpg.de</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div class="">Dear SciServer Users<br class=""><br class="">We currently seem to have an issue with the memory on several compute nodes. The symptoms are crashing/restarting kernels in Jypyter notebooks and random segmentation faults running scripts.<br class="">Since this happens both with old and new containers my assumption is that the problem lies with the underlying compute nodes.<br class=""><br class="">I would like to restart all compute nodes ** Tomorrow morning Wed the 24.1. at 9:00 **<br class="">Could I please ask you to finish your running scripts and save progress until then?<br class=""><br class="">Apologies for the short notice.<br class=""><br class="">kind regards<br class="">Jonas<br class=""><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">On 23. Jan 2023, at 16:49, Jonas Haase <<a href="mailto:jhaase@mpe.mpg.de" class="">jhaase@mpe.mpg.de</a>> wrote:<br class=""><br class="">Dear MPE SciServer Users<br class=""><br class="">I would like to announce that I just have released a set of new Compute Images for the SciServer.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">This means that every _new_ compute container you start from now on has a updated collection of software installed.<br class=""><br class="">- The main change to the previous images is that the new baseline operating system is Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Ubuntu 18.<br class="">- The installed Python version has been updated to 3.9 and R to version 4.2.1<br class="">- The scientific python module collections have been updated to Anaconda 2022.10 and SciPy 1.9 respectively.<br class="">- A large number of additional modules and software has been installed. You can see a partial list in the Readme file in<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><a href="https://sciserver.mpe.mpg.de/dashboard/files/datavolumes/4" class="">https://sciserver.mpe.mpg.de/dashboard/files/datavolumes/4</a><br class="">and can see all installed python modules and their version with "conda list”<br class="">- In the Xray images the HE software collections have been updated to HEASoft 6.31.1, CIAO 4.15, eSASS 20211214.0.5.<br class="">- In addition the CIAO installation has been changed to be part of a conda environment instead of a separate software installation.<br class=""> The Xray and eSASS images have additional buttons buttons and command line instructions to run with the CIAO kernel.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""> Please note that this environment does not come with all the same modules installed as the base environment.<br class="">- Lastly there is now a a easier way to modify your environment and have it stick between containers: In a interactive shell the bash setup will attempt to source the file<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""> Storage/[user]/persistent/bashrc if it exists. So you can add your preferred shell configuration to that file.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">I hope you will find everything working as intended. 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