meeting 2024 01 11

Notes for 2024-01-11 meeting

• date & time: Thu 11 Jan 2024 - 14:00 CET (12:00 UTC)
  • (every first Thursday of the month)
• venue: (online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)
• agenda:
  • Quick introduction by new people
  • EESSI-related meetings and events in last month
  • Progress update per EESSI layer (incl. build-and-deploy bot + test suite)
  • Update on EESSI production repository software.eessi.io
  • Update on support for NVIDIA GPUs in EESSI
  • Update on EESSI test suite
  • Support for EESSI
  • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
  • Update on MultiXscale EuroHPC project
  • Upcoming/recent events: EuroHPC User Day 2023 + ISC’24
  • Q&A

Slides

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EESSI/meetings/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20240111.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Bob/Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

• Hugo Meiland (Microsoft HPC)

EESSI-related meetings in last month

(see slides)

• collaboration with SKA and EESSI
  • they're now looking into adding initial set of software to software.eessi.io

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

• ...

Compatibility layer

(see slides)

• GitHub Action needs to be updated to also support software.eessi.io
  • Alan worked on that already, latest release should support the new repo

Software layer

(see slides)

• starting to get contributions from people outside of EESSI

Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

• job manager is still crashing every now and then (see issue #193)
  • temporary workaround is in place, but it should be fixed properly...

EESSI repository

(see slides)

• ...

GPU support

• Bob: are the sysadmin privileges required for configuring the variant symlink?
  • Yes, or for granting write permission to the default location (/opt/eessi). The script itself is not supposed to be run with root privileges, we'll add a check for that.
• Alex: what are those scripts actually doing exactly?
  • link_nvidia_host_libraries.sh installs symbolic links to host OS GPU driver libraries in /cvmfs/software.eessi.io/host_injections; it does not install drivers, and it does not install anything outside the host_injections directory.

EESSI test suite

(see slides)

• ...

Support for EESSI

(see slides)

• ...

AWS/Azure sponsored credits

(see slides)

• node images for Azure
  • Azure has best collaboration with AlmaLinux
  • should keep in touch

MultiXscale EU project

(see slides)

• ...

Events

• EuroHPC User Summit 2023
• ISC'24

Q&A

• ...