Re: [Condor-users] Ticket #1721 (hyperthreading bug for Win) resolved in 7.8.0?

["Guy K. Kloss" <guy.kloss@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 22/05/12 03:34, John (TJ) Knoeller wrote:
> The fix for #1721 went into 7.8.0.

Awesome, will make an effort to change the default installer for our lab
machines, then for future deployments.

> As for mixed version pools.  While we don't officially support that, 
> but we work very
> hard to make sure that it works, and we often do mixed version pools
> ourselves.  It happens
> a lot when flocking.
> 
> In particular, we aren't aware of any reason why 7.6.8 worker nodes
> wouldn't work with 7.8.0
> central manager.    Of course, some 7.8 features will be unavailable,
> Some of the machinery for
> partitionable slots depends on changes in the execute nodes, as does
> support for IPv6, etc.

Sweet. Sounds like we shouldn't have much problems with this, then.

Thanks a lot,

Guy

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