As an experienced and cynical HPC admin working with trusted users... I have not installed any kind of firmware or kernel updates. I'll wait for you to go first :)
On Thu, Mar 8, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Prentice Bisbal <pbis...@pppl.gov> wrote: > Beowulfers, > > Have any of you updated the kernels on your clusters to fix the Spectre > and Meltdown vulnerabilities? I was following this issue closely for the > first couple of weeks. There seemed to be a lack of consensus on how much > these fixed would impact HPC jobs, and if I recall correctly, some of the > patches really hurt performance, or caused other problems. We took a > wait-and-see approach here. So now that I've waited a while, what did you > see? > > -- > Prentice > > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf >
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