Published: 2 Jul 2021 by HPC Team Freiburg
Security update July applied (CentOS 7.9, Rev. 8) on NEMO worker nodes starting 01.07.2021 at 12:20 CEST. The security update is applied automatically after a running job finishes.
Initially there was a problem after the update. The local SSD wasn’t mounted properly so that the RAM disk was used. This problem was solved on 02.07. at 14:15 CEST.
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