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EESSI software layer sync meeting

Meeting (2023-09-26)

  • attending: Kenneth, Caspar, Bob, Richard, Lara, Thomas

  • excused: ...

  • bot

    • add shared_fs_path configuration setting PR #214
      • partial workaround for download fluke problems (issue #213)
    • final PR before v0.1.0 release made to update README PR #215
    • new Slurm clusters being set up for bot
      • using Magic Castle
      • on both AWS & Azure
      • separate clusters for x86_64 + aarch64 (for now)
      • still WIP, for now we keep using existing CitC cluster on AWS

  • merged software-layer PRs

  • open software-layer PRs

    • R v4.1.0 w/ foss/2021a (PR #328)
      • "prefix is too long" error with topicmodels extension?!
      • was not a problem with R v4.2.0, so patch available?
    • foss/2023a (PR #334)
      • ignore single failing non-numerical test for OpenBLAS on x86_64/generic and deploy + merge?
    • WRF-dmpar V4.3 with foss/2021a (PR #290)
      • hanging/failing WRF test on aarch64/neoverse_v1
    • WRF-dmpar v4.4.1 with foss/2022b (PR #336)
    • RStudio-Server + R v4.1.0 with foss/2021a (PR #299)
      • should be synced with 2023.06 branch once PR #328 is merged
    • foss/2022a (PR #310) [Caspar + Kenneth]
      • build problem with OpenBLAS, only on aarch64/neoverse_v1
        • also outside of EESSI build environment, and when using --parallel=1
      • was not a problem with foss/2022b, so fixed in more recent OpenBLAS version?
      • Caspar found that if TARGET is specified the problem doesn't appear
        • one option could be setting TARGET when building for neoverse_v1
        • or trace down patch in OpenBLAS that fixes the problem
    • TensorFlow v2.7.1 w/ foss/2021b (PR #321)
      • failing tests on aarch64/* - needs more patches? [Kenneth]
      • are tests also failing with official wheel of TensorFlow 2.7.1 for aarch64?
      • should also try TensorFlow 2.8.4 with foss/2021b
    • ESPResSo w/ foss/2022a (PR #331)
      • should wait until PR #310 is merged
    • ESPResSo w/ foss/2021a (PR #332)
      • missing --from-pr since easyconfig is not included in EasyBuild v4.8.0 yet
      • or use EasyBuild v4.8.1 instead?
    • matplotlib v3.4.3 w/ foss/2021b (PR #339)
    • use easybuild/sources subdirectory in shared filesystem path as EasyBuild source path, if specified via shared_fs_path in provided configuration (PR #337)
    • add yml for known issues (PR #340)
      • (KH) I would use a more direct approach like: 
        - aarch64/generic:
    OpenBLAS/0.3.21-GCC-12.2.0: https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/issues/314

  • status update on migration to eessi.io

    • new Stratum-0 @ RUG is ready?
      • yubikey setup is done
      • Ansible playbook with eessi.io seems to work fine
      • RUG firewall is blocking access on port 80, required for Stratum-1
      • make ingestion script support eessi.io as well
        • use compat layer tarballs for 2023.06 in software.eessi.io repo as test case
      • make software.eessi.io part of default CVMFS config repo
    • software layer
      • stick to a single toolchain (foss/2022b?)

  • Caspar will open PR to Thomas' PR for inspect script

  • next sync meeting: Tue 3 Oct 2023 at 10:00 CEST

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