Switch from Mistral to Levante

[denizural]

This is a test question.
When will DKRZ switch from Mistral to Levante?

[seb-wahl]

I don't think this is a test question: I always thought, mistral will be decommissioned by the end of March but given the fact that the transfer of data from work from Mistral to levante hasn't started yet, I assume mistral will be around for longer. But I don't know an exact date.

[denizural]

Thanks for the feedback @seb-wahl. Due to the category limitation in GitHub discussions, I moved all HPC related questions / announcements here and made a test question just to show the use of labels to filter different HPCs.
I also agree that the actual migration date is very important.

[fernandadialzira]

Can we already at least transfer the content of our home folder to Levante? According to DKRZ's e-mail the automatic transfer will only be done in the work folder and we need to transfer whatever we find important from our local home by ourselves. I wonder if I can start doing it already

[seb-wahl]

Yes, this can be done already. If you still work on mistral, you can always update your home on Levante from Mistral or vice-versa via rsync. If you have never used rsync before, there are tons of introductions out there on the web. Or any of the ESM-Tools developers will be able to help.

[pgierz]

Briefly, in case anyone looks here and is too lazy to google afterwards:

$ rsync -avzhP <source_location> <user@host:destination_location>

For the flags:

-a: all files
-v: verbose
-z: compress during transfer (this makes it a bit faster)
-h: use human-readable file sizes when reporting
-P: show progress information

One import caveat: rsync is sensitive to trailing slashes:

/some/path/like/this: that will copy across the folder
/some/path/like/this/: that will copy across the contents of the folder

[mandresm]

I think this link provides valuable information about it https://docs.dkrz.de/doc/levante/index.html