BC News
Release Date: 03 Aug 2011
Last Updated: 06 Oct 2020
The Baseline Configuration (BC) Initiative has been working since 2005 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-six policies have been published in the following five major categories.
Development Environment
- Compiler Versions and Bug Fixes (December 2019)
- 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)
- Common Modules Environment (March 2012)
- Multiple-Version Software and Modules Usage (October 2006)
- Common Node Attribute Specification (November 2015)
- Common Set of Open Source Compilers (October 2008)
- Common Open Source Software Base (January 2014)
- Common Software Container Tools (October 2020)
Customer Account Support
- 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)
- DAAC Supported Visualization Tools (July 2008)
- Data Removal on Account Closure (February 2014)
- Decommission of HPC Allocated Systems (April 2013)
- Common DSRC Commands and Tools (August 2011)
- 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)
- HPC Public Node Naming Convention (August 2011)
- Common Queue Names (October 2005)
- Sample Code Repository (May 2007)
- Consistency in Subproject Identifier (July 2010)
- Transfer Queue (September 2014)
- New/Returning User Welcome Letter (October 2009)
- Work Space Management (March 2006)
Security
- Kerberos/SSH Access (January 2006)
System Configuration
- Commonality in Announcing and Logging Changes (September 2009)
- Common Change Control Rollback (April 2006)
- Locale Setting (September 2020)
- Sustained System Performance (SSP) Test Job Execution (April 2010)