Azure meeting 2023 01 20

EESSI/Azure sync meeting 2023-01-20

attending: Laura, Kenneth, Davide, Martin

Notes

• MultiXscale EuroHPC project started 1 Jan 2023
  • see https://github.com/multixscale
  • website coming soon
  • kickoff meeting planned (end of March'23)
• EESSI hackathon Dec'22
  • https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/EESSI-hackathon-Dec'22
• Slurm cluster in Azure
  • cfr. https://github.com/EESSI/hackathons/tree/main/2022-12/cyclecloud-azure
  • creating CPU-specific partitions is a bit difficult, especially for older CPU generations
  • may mostly get used for cross-cloud testing (build for EESSI in AWS, test on Azure)
  • some quota for Ampere Altra (Dpsv5) vCPUs would be nice
• credit usage
  • cfr. https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20230105.pdf
• EUM'23 being planned (cfr. https://easybuild.io/eum/)
  • April-May-June'23 in London
  • looking for affordable venue
  • maybe some sponsoring from MS?
• next meeting
  • Fri 17 Feb'23 - 15:30 UTC