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This patch release is focused on fixing following issue:

• Installation of Kubernetes 1.16 and 1.19 are deprecated.

• Spark Operator support is deprecated.

• Omnia now installs Kubernetes 1.26

This release is focused on supporting following features:

• Hardware Support: Intel E810 NIC, ConnectX-5/6 NICs.

• Omnia github now hosts a “genesis” image with this functionality baked in for initial bootup.

• Host aliasing for Scheduler and IPA authentication.

• Login and Manager Node access from both public and private NIC.

• Validation check enhancements:

  • Rearranged to occur as early as possible.

  • Isolate checks when running smaller playbooks.

• Added a Benchmark Install Guide: OneAPI for Intel, MPI AOCC HPL for AMD.

This release is focused on supporting following features:

• Expanded telemetry collection support to Regular, health check and GPU metrics.
• Rsyslog : Added ability to aggregate logs via xCAT’s syslog.
• Integration of apptainer for containerized HPC benchmark execution.
• Optimized installation of Visualization Dashboard and Log Aggregator Tool.

This release is focused on supporting following features:

• XE 9640, R760 XA, R760 XD2 are now supported as control planes or target nodes with Nvidia H100 accelerators.
• Added ability for split port configuration on NVIDIA Quantum-2-based QM9700 (Nvidia InfiniBand NDR400 switches).
• Extended password-less SSH support for multiple user configuration in a single execution.
• Input mapping files and inventory files now support commented entries for customized playbook execution.
• NFS share is now available for hosting user home directories within the cluster.

This release is focused on supporting following features:

• XE9680, R760, R7625, R6615, R7615 are now supported as control planes or target nodes
• Added ability for switch-based discovery of remote servers and PXE provisioning.
• Active RedHat subscription is no longer required on the control plane and the compute nodes. Users can configure and use local RHEL repositories.
• IP ranges can be defined for assignment to remote nodes when discovered via the switch.

This release is focused on supporting following features:

• R660, R6625 and C6620 platforms are now supported as control planes or target nodes. 
• One touch provisioning now allows for OFED installation, NVIDIA   CUDA-toolkit installation along with iDRAC and InfiniBand IP configuration on   target nodes. 
• Potential servers can now be discovered via iDRAC. 
• Servers can be provisioned automatically without manual intervention for booting/PXE settings. 
• Target node provisioning status can now be checked on the control plane by viewing the OmniaDB. 
• Omnia clusters can be configured with passwordless SSH for seamless execution of HPC jobs run by non-root users. 
• Accelerator drivers can be installed on Rocky target nodes in addition to RHEL.

Bugfix patch release which address the broken Singularity install issue.

Omnia has been enhanced to offer:

Control Plane

• Omnia Prerequisites Installation

• Provision Tool - xCAT installation

• Node Discovery using Switch IP Address

• Provisioning of remote nodes using

   - Mapping File
   - Auto discovery of nodes from Switch IP
  

• Database Update of remote nodes info that includes,

  • Host or Admin IP

  • iDRAC IP

  • InfiniBand IP

  • Hostname

• Inventory creation on Control Plane

Cluster

• iDRAC and InfiniBand IP Assignment on remote nodes (nodes in the cluster)

• Installation and Configuration of:

  • NVIDIA Accelerator and CUDA Toolkit

  • AMD Accelerator and ROCm

  • OFED

  • LDAP Client

Device Support

• InfiniBand Switch Configuration with port split functionality

• Ethernet Z-Series Switch Configuration with port split functionality

Bugfix patch release which address image retries and pod timeout.

Omnia has been enhanced to offer:

• CLI support for all Omnia playbooks (AWX GUI is now optional/deprecated).
• Automated discovery and configuration of all devices (including PowerVault, InfiniBand, and ethernet switches) in shared LOM configuration.
• Job based user access with Slurm.
• AMD server support (R6415, R7415, R7425, R6515, R6525, R7515, R7525, C6525).
• PowerVault ME5 series support (ME5012, ME5024, ME5084).
• PowerVault ME4 and ME5 SAS Controller configuration and NFS server, client configuration.
• NFS bolt-on support.
• BeeGFS bolt-on support.
• Lua and Lmod installation on manager and compute nodes running RedHat 8.x, Rocky 8.x and Leap 15.3.
• Automated setup of FreeIPA client on all nodes.
• Automate configuration of PXE device settings (active NIC) on iDRAC.