Cent OS 7 and GLIBC_2.18 on all compute nodes

[tk...@ucdavis.edu]

Hello,

I have a number of applications that require GLIBC_2.18,

running them results in an error:

>/lib64/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.18' not found 

Finding the specific gclib version, shows 2.18 is not installed on the compute nodes.

>strings /usr/lib64/libc.so.6 | grep ^GLIBC_

...snip

GLIBC_2.14

GLIBC_2.15

GLIBC_2.16

GLIBC_2.17

GLIBC_PRIVATE

GLIBC_2.8

GLIBC_2.5

GLIBC_2.9

...snip

I know I can download and compile it on a normal machine, like:

>curl -O http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/glibc/glibc-2.18.tar.gz

>tar xf glibc-2.18.tar.gz

>cd glibc-2.18

>mkdir build && cd build

>../configure --prefix=/usr

>make -j2 

>sudo make install

But it takes a long time to compile, is quite large, and is not 

distributed to all the compute nodes. I could also do: yum update "glibc*"

but this requires root and I want to distribute the glibc-2.18 version

to all compute nodes at once, before I start using the gcp-slurm cluster.

Is there a way to use a different image, or should I include that into

a startup command, so I can use it before starting the cluster?

Thanks

Tobias