Starting Monday, September 8, 2025, up to 2688 Aurora compute nodes will be dedicated to testing a new compute image. This leaves 7800 nodes available to production queues using the current image.

After Monday, there will be a dedicated testing queue available to all users for two weeks. The changes include updates to Intel's User (UMD) and Kernel Mode Drivers (KMD) (Agama 1146.12 / rolling release 2523.12), and OneAPI 2025.2.0. Please submit any results from running and compiling your applications using the testing queue to ALCF Support.

More details, including the full change log, and instructions to use the new queue, will be shared next week.