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)
• System Status 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 and Shared Data (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)