[Labs-announce] [Tools] Default release for gridengine to change to Trusty

Wed Dec 9 16:40:06 UTC 2015

Hello Tool Labs,

For quite some time, now, running jobs on Trusty has been supported by
requesting so explicitly (with '-l release=trusty') on gridengine.

It has been working fine, and given the need to gradually phase out
Precise from tool labs, we will be changing the default release jobs are
sent to on January 11, 2016.

Jobs that have no dependency on the specific release of Ubuntu under
which they run will not be affected, nor do any jobs started with an
explicit release requested.

You can test any jobs you have that relies on the default under trusty
in advance by adding '-l release=trusty' to your jsub/jstart/qsub
invokations.  Jobs that can only run with the specific versions of
programs provided under Precise can be specified to run there with '-l
release=precise'.

Thanks,

-- Marc