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Notes on the 3rd EasyBuild conference call, Tuesday Dec. 3rd 2013 (3pm -3.30pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (5):

  • Fotis Georgatos (Uni.lu)
  • Andy Georges (HPC-UGent)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
  • Andreas Panteli (CyI)
  • Ward Poelmans (Ghent University)

Agenda

  • update on EasyBuild-related activities at the SC13 conference
  • rough outline for development activity for the coming weeks

Notes

EasyBuild @ SC13
  • BoF was very successful slides
  • ~75 attendees
  • first half: lightning talks on Lmod, HashDist & EasyBuild + questions
  • second half: show-of-hands via Socrative (results)
  • possible future SPEC certification (AP Andy: follow-up)
  • pitched as a benchmarking framework, interest from people (Andy knows) at Google, UT Austin, Microsoft, DARPA
  • interest by Intel w.r.t. Intel Cluster Ready certification
  • side-question by Intel: payed support for EasyBuild?
  • remark by Fotis: article on Intel websit/blog on EasyBuild; ideal timing would be whenever we get to supporting the latest Intel compilers/MPI lib
  • users we didn't know about:
  • Idaho National Lab (since March'13)
  • some site in South-Africa (Fotis: winners of Student Cluster Competition?)
  • (very!) similar projects (some we didn't know about):
  • Univ. of Western Australia (Chris Bording); iVEC Build System (IBS), all bash, supports ~100 packages
  • LLNL (Todd Gamblin): Spack, Python, very similar w.r.t. easyblocks, supports ~10 packages, several cool features (very cool/flexible/powerful cmdline, no strict versions specifications, ...)
  • both are interested to work on merging their project with EasyBuild into 'something new' (long-term!)
  • access to other (big) systems to test EasyBuild on: BlueGene/Cray systems at LLNL (via Todd Gamblin), Cray system in Australia (via Chris Bording)
  • talked to PGI about obtaining a free license to test PGI support in EasyBuild
  • seems like that would be possible (follow-up required)
Planned EasyBuild development activities
  • EasyBuild v1.10 release planned for Wed Dec 18th 2013, see also Release schedule
  • most likely no shocking new features, mostly support for new software
  • in the next couple of weeks:
  • strong focus on support for easyconfig format 2.0
  • preparation for a possible EasyBuild tutorial at HPCKP conference in Barcelona Jan 13-14th 2014 (Jens): 'toy' toolchain including TinyCC compiler + default BLAS, maybe also C-only simple MPI library? (AP Kenneth, Fotis, Jordi)
  • preparation for EasyBuild hackathon / training event at Jülich Supercomputer Centre (JSC) in Jan/Feb'14 (Kenneth, Stijn?)
  • HPC devroom at FOSDEM (Feb 2nd-3rd 2014)
  • completing fully featured support for custom module naming schemes
  • next: focus on support for site customizations
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