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Conference call notes 20170705

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Jul 5, 2017 · 2 revisions

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Notes on the 80th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday July 5th 2017 (5pm - 6.pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

  • Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)
  • Shahzeb Siddiqui (Pfizer)

Agenda

  • 2017b toolchains
  • outlook to EasyBuild v3.3.1
  • migration to github.com/easybuilders
  • new team of EasyBuild maintainers
  • host for next 2 conf calls?
  • Q&A

Notes

2017b toolchains
EasyBuild v3.3.1
Migration to github.com/easybuilders
Maintainers
Host for next conf calls?
  • Wed July 19th 2017: will hosted by Damian
  • Wed Aug 2nd 2017: will hosted by Davide
Other
  • Damian: looking into making JSC repo public under github.com/easybuilders

    • first cleaning it up and internal checking
    • Damian has required rights to host it under github.com/easybuilders
    • will be maintained by Alan & Damian
    • pretty much in sync with JSC internal repo
    • some do require modifications to easyblocks
      • also making that available can be considered
    • could serve as inspiration for others, e.g. on HMNS
    • see also CSCS repo at https://github.com/eth-cscs/production
  • Davide: work on fosscuda toolchain

    • see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2253
    • problem with GCCcore-CUDA in $MODULEPATH?
      • see det_modpath_extensions in HMNS, needs to be made aware of GCCcore+CUDA combo
      • both GCCcore-CUDA & GCC-CUDA subdirs should be added to $MODULEPATH for gcccuda & iccifortcuda toolchain/module
      • see test_hierarchical_mns to evaluate changes with breaking backward compatibility
    • using GCCcore-CUDA allows sharing installations between fosscuda and intelcuda
    • Shahzeb: problems building with GCCcore
      • probably missing binutils build dep?
  • interest from Singularity community to add support in EasyBuild for generating Singularity images

    • can be done in a number of ways, options need to be figured out and evaluated
    • Kenneth/Pablo have a conf call planned with Rstor (company supporting Singularity) on this subject
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