Bump minimal Julia version to 1.8 (#905)

.github/workflows/ci.yaml

@@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: actions/checkout@v4
       - uses: julia-actions/setup-julia@v1
         with:
-          version: '1.7'
+          version: '1.8'
           arch: x64
       - uses: julia-actions/cache@v1
       - uses: julia-actions/julia-buildpkg@v1

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -1,16 +1,15 @@
 stages:
   - test
 
-# This job tests DFTK.jl with Julia 1.8 on Noctua 2
+# This job tests DFTK.jl with Julia 1.9 on Noctua 2
 # It only runs when:
 #    - Commit in master
 #    - PR from branch with name ending in "gpu"
 #    - Manual run triggered
-julia/1.8-n2:
+julia/1.9-n2:
   stage: test
   variables:
-    # SCHEDULER_PARAMETERS: "-N 1 -n 1 -c 16 --gres=gpu:a100:1 --qos=devel -p dgx -t 00:15:00 -A hpc-prf-dftkjl"
-    SCHEDULER_PARAMETERS: "-N 1 -n 1 -c 16 --gres=gpu:a100:1             -p gpu -t 00:30:00 -A hpc-prf-dftkjl"
+    SCHEDULER_PARAMETERS: "-N 1 -n 1 -c 16 --gres=gpu:a100:1 --qos=devel -p dgx -t 00:30:00 -A hpc-prf-dftkjl"
     JULIA_DEPOT_PATH: "/scratch/hpc-prf-dftkjl/dftkjl01/.julia-ci"
     JULIA_NUM_THREADS: "1"  # GPU and multi-threading not yet compatible
   coverage: '/\(\d+.\d+\%\) covered/'
@@ -20,12 +19,12 @@ julia/1.8-n2:
     - if: $CI_PIPELINE_SOURCE == "external_pull_request_event"
       when: manual
   script:
-    - module load lang/JuliaHPC/1.9.0-foss-2022a-CUDA-11.7.0
+    - module load lang/JuliaHPC/1.9.3-foss-2022a-CUDA-11.7.0
     - julia --project=. -e '
         using Pkg; Pkg.instantiate();
         Pkg.add("CUDA");
         using CUDA;
-        CUDA.set_runtime_version!(v"11.7")
+        CUDA.set_runtime_version!(v"11.7"; local_toolkit=true)
       '
     - julia --color=yes --project=. -e '
         using Pkg;

Project.toml

@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Statistics = "1"
 TimerOutputs = "0.5.12"
 Unitful = "1"
 UnitfulAtomic = "1"
-julia = "1.7"
+julia = "1.8"
 
 [extras]
 ASEconvert = "3da9722f-58c2-4165-81be-b4d7253e8fd2"

README.md

@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ For getting started with DFTK, see [our documentation](https://docs.dftk.org):
 - [Tutorial](https://docs.dftk.org/stable/guide/tutorial/)
 - [Basic DFT examples](https://docs.dftk.org/stable/examples/metallic_systems/)
 
-Note that at least **Julia 1.7** is required.
+Note that at least **Julia 1.8** is required.
 
 ## Support and citation
 DFTK is mostly developed as part of academic research.