RELEASE_NOTES.md

Cray System Management (CSM) - Release Notes

CSM 1.6 contains many changes spanning bug fixes, new feature development, and documentation improvements. This page lists some of the highlights.

New

• v1 of Power Control Service (PCS) is active.

Monitoring

Networking

Miscellaneous functionality

New hardware support

• IMPORTANT Systems with NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs must see Known issues

Automation improvements

Base platform component upgrades

Platform Component	Version

Security improvements

Customer-requested enhancements

Documentation enhancements

Noteworthy changes

• The BOS API now enforces limits that previously had only been recommended. When updating to CSM 1.6, BOS data is migrated to be in compliance with the API specification. See BOS data notice for more details.

Bug fixes

Deprecations

For a list of all deprecated CSM features, see Deprecations.

Removals

• BOS v1

For a list of all features with an announced removal target, see Removals.

Known issues

• CSM 1.6.0 does not support servers with NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. Systems with these servers should not be upgraded to CSM 1.6.0.

  The January 2025 HPE HPC continuous software stack releases (CSM 1.6.0) are for HPE Cray EX systems without NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. For HPE Cray EX systems with NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs, please use the August 2024 (CSM 1.5.x) HPE HPC continuous software stack. These software stacks were validated with NVIDIA HPC SDK 24.3.

  The March 2025 HPE HPC continuous and extended software stack releases will be validated with NVIDIA HPC SDK 24.11. The March 2025 (CSM 1.6.1) software stacks will support all HPE Cray EX systems.

• After updating Paradise BMC firmware, the hmcollector-poll service will lose event subscriptions and must be restarted

  • See Updating Foxconn Paradise Nodes with FAS for details on how to do this

Security vulnerability exceptions in CSM 1.6