Intel® Cluster Checker Release Notes and New Features

This page provides the current Release Notes for Intel® Cluster Checker. The notes are categorized by year, from newest to oldest, with individual releases listed within each year.

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2019

Update 4.0 (only available through Intel® Parallel Studio XE)

Linux* Release Notes

• Enhanced functionality for testing memory uniformity.
• Added flexibility on checks for memlock limits to InfiniBand and Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) checks.
• Improved support for diskless clusters.
• Improved messages and bug fixes.

Update 3.5

Linux* Release Notes

• Added support for checking of second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors by privileged or non-privileged users.
• Updated support for validation of Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling to include the second-generation Intel® Xeon® Scalable Processor solution.
• Added support for checking Intel® Optane™ DC persistent Memory configurations and uniformity.
• Included support for second-generation Intel Xeon Scalable processor with the Intel HPC Platform Specification.
• Added checking for the Intel® Parallel Studio XE 2019.0 runtimes.

Update 2.1

Linux* Release Notes

• Updated support for validation of Intel® Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling.
• Added in support for Intel HPC Platform Specification 2018.0.
• Intel® Cluster Checker 2019 Update 2.1 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

Update 2

Linux* Release Notes

• Intel® Cluster Checker 2019 Update 2 includes functional and security updates. Users should update to the latest version.

Initial Release

Linux* Release Notes

• New clck command simplifies execution with a single command.
• Added improved output messaging:
  • New compact summary output provided on screen.
  • Details of analysis provided in the output logfile.
  • Simplified scheme to assess issues as CRITICAL, WARNING, or INFORMATIONAL
  • Added –R option for specifying where results are written.
  • Changed -o option to specify where log output is written.
• Added performance threshold checking for Intel® Xeon Phi™ processor x205 product family.
• Added -X command line option, allowing a user to obtain a list of available framework definitions and their respective descriptions on data collected and analysis tests.
• Added the ability to mark two snapshots of a cluster state to identify changes. Currently supported with the following framework definitions: rpm_snapshot, hardware_snapshot, files_snapshot.
• Added a user option to collect any missing or old data before analysis.
• Added ability to collect data on a cluster that does not have pdsh if the Intel® MPI Library is installed.
• Added the ability to collect data without specifying a node file if nodes are allocated through SLURM.
• Added in support for validation of Intel Select Solutions for Simulation and Modeling.
• New Intel® Cluster Checker API.

2018

Update 3

Linux* Release Notes

• Resolved an issue with running lshw without privileged access.

Update 2

Linux* Release Notes

• Added support for Intel® Select Solutions Framework Definitions.

Update 1

Linux* Release Notes

• Enabled provider configuration as part of Framework Definitions.
• Enabled latest Intel® Xeon® processors.
• Renamed predefined Framework Definition names to be more informative.
• Added support for the SGEMM benchmark.
• Improved memory checking.
• Enhanced user visible message output.
• Added checks for Intel® Omni-Path Fabric (Intel® OP Fabric) subnets.
• Bug fixes.

Initial Release

Linux* Release Notes

• Added support for Intel® Xeon® Scalable processors.
• Added Framework Definition feature to allow for customization of analysis.
• Added support for Intel® Turbo Boost Technology validation.
• Added support for analysis from multiple database sources.
• Updated samples and SDK.
• Converted documentation to online format.
• Enhanced Intel® Omni-Path Architecture (Intel® OPA) validation.
• Added OpenFabrics Interfaces support.
• Enhanced user viewable message output.
• Bug fixes

2017

Update 2

Linux* Release Notes

• Additional support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family x200 processors.
• Additional support for Intel® Omni-Path Architecture.
• Bug fixes.

Update 1

Linux* Release Notes

• Added Intel® Scalable System Framework support.
• Deprecated support for Intel® Cluster Ready.
• Added additional support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family x200 processors.
• Removed heartbeat functionality.
• Bug fixes.

Initial Release

Linux* Release Notes

• Added support for Intel® Xeon Phi™ product family x200 processors.
• Added support for the Lustre* file system.
• Significantly improved analysis performance for large databases.
• Extended the API to provide the ability to collect data.
• The separate analyzer (clck.xml) and data collection (clckd.xml) configuration files were merged into a single file (clck.xml). Previous configuration files are not compatible.
• Allows more granular suppressions. See the section on suppressions in the User's Guide for more information.
• The asynchronous data collection daemons, clckd and clck-serverd, have been replaced by a plugin to the Open Resilient Cluster Manager* (ORCM). See orcm/README for more information. The ORCM plugin is a technical preview feature; please see the Known Limitation section for its current limitations.
• Databases from previous versions of the product are incompatible with version 2017 due to database schema changes.
• The samples have been moved online and are no longer distributed as part of the product. They are now available at Intel® Software Development Products Samples and Tutorials