BC Policies and Projects

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. The following policies have been published in the following five major categories.

Development Environment

• FY05-01: Multiple-Version Software and Modules Usage (October 2006)
• FY05-04: Common Set of Environment Variables (July 2005)
• FY06-04: Baseline Editors and Scripting Tools (February 2006)
• FY06-05: Baseline Set of Debuggers (January 2006)
• FY07-03: Common Set of Open Source Compilers (October 2008)
• FY10-05: Debug Queue Limits (August 2010)
• FY11-04: Common Modules Environment (March 2012)
• FY11-05: Common Compiling Environments (March 2012)
• FY13-01: Common Open Source Software Base (January 2014)
• FY14-01: Common Node Attribute Specification (November 2015)
• FY18-01: Compiler Versions and Bug Fixes (December 2019)
• FY20-02: Common Software Container Tools (October 2020)
• FY24-01: Secure Remote Desktop (January 2024)

Customer Account Support

• FY05-06: Baseline Set of Login Shells and User Selection (December 2005)
• FY06-10: System Status User Notices (April 2007)
• FY11-03: Common User Group Naming (October 2011)

Customer Services

• FY05-02: Work Space Management (March 2006)
• FY05-05: Common Queue Names (October 2005)
• FY06-09: Common Archival Retrieval (April 2006)
• FY06-14: Cross-Center File Transfers (October 2006)
• FY06-15: Sample Code Repository (May 2007)
• FY06-16: MPI Test Suite (September 2011)
• FY08-01: DAAC Supported Visualization Tools (July 2008)
• FY09-01: Advance Reservation (February 2009)
• FY10-01: New/Returning User Welcome Letter (October 2009)
• FY10-03: Consistency in Subproject Identifier (July 2010)
• FY10-06: Common DSRC Commands and Tools (August 2011)
• FY10-07: Common Location to Maintain Codes and Shared Data (September 2011)
• FY11-01: Interactive Job Submittal Scripts (September 2011)
• FY11-02: HPC Public Node Naming Convention (August 2011)
• FY12-01: Minimum Home Directory Size and Backup Schedule (August 2012)
• FY12-02: Decommission of HPC Allocated Systems (April 2013)
• FY13-02: Data Removal on Account Closure (February 2014)
• FY14-02: Transfer Queue (September 2014)

Security

• FY06-02: Kerberos/SSH Access (January 2006)

System Configuration

• FY06-11: Commonality in Announcing and Logging Changes (September 2009)
• FY06-12: Common Change Control Rollback (April 2006)
• FY10-04: Sustained System Performance (SSP) Test Job Execution (April 2010)
• FY19-01: Locale Setting (September 2020)
• FY20-01: Common Compute Node Local WorkDir Addressing (August 2020)