RELEASED: HPE Cray Programming Environment 25.03 General Availability Release for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems with HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.5 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.4 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 8.10 – March 2025

PRODUCT DESCRIPTION

The HPE Cray Programming Environment 25.03 release for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing systems is now available for HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.5 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.4 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 8.10 systems.

The following software is supported with this release:

  • HPE Performance Cluster Manager (HPCM) 1.13 - managed systems running RHEL 9.5 or RHEL 9.4 or RHEL 8.10 on the compute/login nodes.

SOFTWARE OVERVIEW

This software announcement applies to HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and/or HPE Cray Supercomputing HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.5 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.4 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 8.10 systems.

HPE Cray Programming Environment licensed customers may download the release materials by submitting a request to HPE PointNext for the respective package below (depending on entitlement):

  • HPE Cray Programming Environment DOCS for HPCM 25.03-DOCS

  • HPE Cray Programming Environment (CPE) 25.03 Software for HPCM


See “module help <product>” for the corresponding PE product release notes.


Content for HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.5 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 9.4 and HPCM 1.13 RHEL 8.10 Systems:

  • cpe-25.3.3-rhel-9-5-x86_64.iso

  • cpe-25.3.3-rhel-9-5-aarch64.iso

  • cpe-25.3.3-rhel-9-4-x86_64.iso

  • cpe-25.3.3-rhel-9-4-aarch64.iso

  • cpe-25.3.3-rhel-8-10-x86_64.iso

NOTE: The single tarfile(s) above contain base PE as well as optional installation of other third-party compiler support.

  • REQUIRED: Base PE

  • OPTIONAL:

  • AMD AOCC 5.0

  • AMD ROCm 6.3

  • Intel OneAPI 2025.0.0

  • NVIDIA HPC SDK 24.11

  • GCC 14 & 13

Documentation

NOTE: As of CPE 24.11 and later, HPE discontinued providing CPE release announcement and user guide documentation on the HPE Support Center web page. CPE 24.11 (and later) release announcement and user guides, along with installation guides, are now available on the CPE Documentation site. CPE installation guides for all CPE versions can still be accessed from the HPE Support Center web page. CPE 24.07 and earlier documentation, including user guides, installation guides, release announcements, and related revision documentation, can also be found on the HPE Support Center web page.

CPE 25.03 Installation and User Guides

Document Title/Filename

Document Part Number

Included in .tar File?

CPE Documentation Site

HPE Support Center

HPE Cray Programming Environment Installation Guide: HPCM on HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems (25.03)

S-8003

Y

Y

Y

HPE_CPE_Installation_Guide_HPCM_on_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX _systems_25.03.pdf

HPE Supercomputing Cray Programming Environment Getting Started User Guide: HPE Cray Supercomputing EX Systems (25.03)

S-9934

N

Y

Y

HPE_CPE_Getting_Started_User_Guide_HPE_Cray_Supercomputing_EX_Systems_25.03_S-9934.pdf

HPE Cray Programming Environment User Guide: HPCM (25.03)

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Performance Analysis Tools User Guide (25.03)

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Cray Cassini Performance Counters User Guide (25.03)

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Cray Fortran Reference Manual (19.0.0)

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Cray Clang C and C++ Quick Reference (19.0.0)

N/A

N

Y

N

HPE Cray Compiling Environment Overview (19.0.0)

N/A

N

Y

N

Other Documentation

  • CPE-25.03-HPCM-Release-Announcement.md

\ HPE CPE Release Information Available on the CPE Documentation site for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX Systems

The information posted includes the release notes for each HPE CPE release starting with 24.03 along with other CPE related information. The release notes files will also continue to be posted as part of the release packages.

IMPORTANT NOTES

  • NOTE: NVIDIA HPC SDK releases include three versions of CUDA. For each new SDK version supported by HPE, Cray PE supports only the latest CUDA version included in the respective NVIDIA HPC SDKrelease (i.e., the older two CUDA versions are not supported by CPE when a new SDK is supported).

  • NOTE: The Red Hat GCC Toolset provides the cc compiler driver that will conflict with the craype driver. To ensure the environment’s PATH is correct, the craype module should always be reloaded after swapping or reloading the gcc-native module. You may run cc –craype-help to verify the correct executable is resolved.

  • NOTE: Perftools 25.03.0 and PAPI 7.1.0.4 included with CPE 25.03 are not compatible with ROCm earlier than 6.0.0, they require the use of ROCm 6.0.0 or later.

  • NOTE: PE-provided hugepage support has reduced functionality on RHEL 9 due to incompatibilities between glibc 2.34 and libhugetlbfs. Applications using the craype hugepage modules will not have dynamic memory allocations (eg, from malloc or new) automatically backed by hugepages. See https://github.com/libhugetlbfs/libhugetlbfs/issues/52 for technical details.

  • NOTE: Beginning in CPE 24.11, the NVHPC modules (PrgEnv-nvhpc, nvhpc, nvhpc-mixed) are no longer offered. The NVIDIA modules (PrgEnv-nvidia, nvidia, nvidia-mixed) are now the sole option for modules regarding the NVIDIA programing environment. The move to the NVIDIA modules is to complete the alignment of CPE module flows. The module flow for all environments is as follows:

  • Load an environment meta module (ie. PrgEnv-nvidia)

  • Environment meta module loads a compiler (ie. nvidia)

  • User can choose to load a toolkit (cuda, cudatoolkit)

  • NOTE: 24.11/ 25.03 HPE HPC Software 2025 roadmap update for HPE Cray systems with NVIDIA CPUs and GPUs. The NVIDIA driver support for SLES15 SP6 was not available before code completion dates, as a result, the January 2025 HPE HPC continuous software stack releases 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 (CPE 24.07) 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 and will support all HPE CRAY EX systems.

  • NOTE: Starting in CPE 25.03, we are now releasing .ISO packages for HPCM.

  • NOTE: The GUI application Apprentice will be made available as an open source build in future releases and the binaries will be removed from the perftools rpms.

CPE 25.03 Product Versions:

NOTE: Use of **** indicates a new or updated component version compared to CPE 24.11.

HPE Cray Programming Environment for HPE Cray Supercomputing EX and HPE Cray Supercomputing Systems with HPCM

Cray Compiling Environment – CCE

    cce 19.0.0 ****

Cray Message Passing Toolkit - CMPT

    cray-mpich 8.1.32 ****

    cray-mpixlate 1.0.7 ****

    cray-dsmml 0.3.1 ****

    cray-pmi 6.1.15

    cray-openshmemx 11.7.4 ****

Cray Debugging Support Tools – CDST

    cray-cti 2.19.1 ****

    gdb4hpc 4.16.4 ****

    cray-ccdb 5.0.6 ****

    cray-stat 4.12.5 ****

    atp 3.15.6 ****

    valgrind4hpc 2.13.5 ****

    sanitizers4hpc 1.1.5 ****

    cray-dyninst 12.3.5 ****

    cray-mrnet 5.1.5 ****

    cray-zmqnet 1.3.0 ****

Cray Performance Measurement & Analysis Tools – CPMAT

    perftools 25.03.0 ****

    cray-papi 7.2.0.1 ****

Cray Scientific and Math Libraries - CSML

    cray-libsci 25.03.0 ****

    cray-libsci-acc 25.03.0 ****

    cray-fftw 3.3.10.10 ****

Cray Deep Learning Tools

    craype-dl-plugin-ftr 22.06.1.2

    craype-dl-plugin-py3 22.12.1

Cray Environment Setup and Compiling support – CENV

    craypkg-gen 1.3.35 ****

    craype 2.7.34 ****

    cpe-prgenv 8.6.0

    cray-lmod 8.7.55 ****

    cray-modules 3.2.11.7

Third party products

    cray-hdf5 1.14.3.5 ****

    cray-netcdf 4.9.0.17 ****

    cray-parallel-netcdf 1.12.3.17 ****

    cray-python 3.11.7

    cray-R 4.4.0

Third-party products supported

    Totalview 2024.4.0

    Forge 24.1.1

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