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Notes for 2024-05-02 meeting

  • date & time: Thu 2 May 2024 - 14:00 CEST (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
    • Update on EESSI production repository software.eessi.io
    • Update on EESSI test suite + build-and-deploy bot
    • EESSI RISC-V repository riscv.eessi.io
    • EESSI support portal
    • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
    • Update on MultiXscale EuroHPC project
    • Upcoming/recent events: EuroHPC Summit + EasyBuild User Meeting 2024 + ISC’24
    • Q&A

Slides

Meeting notes

(by Bob/Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

  • no new faces this time

EESSI-related meetings in last month

(see slides)

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

  • the CVMFS patch release is only relevant to people running their own Stratum 1, it is not applicable to clients
  • development repository will be built on top of the production repository, and policies will be much more loose (e.g. adding a package for only one CPU microarchitecture is fine)
  • find Kenneth or Lara at ISC'24 in Hamburg to get a CernVM-FS (or EESSI or EasyBuild or Lmod or MultiXscale sticker)
Compatibility layer

(see slides)

  • If you still have a good reason for using the pilot repo, please let us know, so we can see if anything can be done (e.g. by adding missing software to the production repo)
Software layer

(see slides)

  • Extrae is used by the POP Centre of Excellence, they reached out to us and asked if their performance analysis tools can be included in EESSI
  • Unsetting CMAKE_SYSROOT seems to solve the Qt6 issue; otherwise the path to some header file in the software layer gets wrongly prefixed with the sysroot path
  • Ake has been testing the easyconfig that can extend EESSI, this seems to work well now
  • A manual installation of the current EESSI stack on zen 4 done by Kenneth only showed two (minor) issues
    • one failing AVX512 test in OpenBLAS, which we can probably ignore
    • a failed download for the libxc sources; this has already been solved in Easybuild
    • this still has to be redone by the bot
Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

software.eessi.io repository

(see slides)

EESSI documentation

(see slides)

  • Xin is working on restructuring the menu of the documentation, to make sure it's easily accessible
EESSI test suite

(see slides)

  • Davide worked on the QuantumEspresso test: he used the GROMACS test as an example, and then it was relatively simple to implement this. Caspar gave some pointers for improvements.
EESSI RISC-V repository riscv.eessi.io

(see slides)

  • not using a bot yet, all software installations are done manually
    • makes debugging easier
    • the bot currently requires a Slurm cluster, though we could consider adding a mode where it will do the builds on the local machine instead of submitting jobs
Support for EESSI

(see slides)

AWS/Azure sponsored credits

(see slides)

MultiXscale EU project

(see slides)

Events

(see slides)

  • EasyBuild User Meeting: https://easybuild.io/eum24
  • ISC'24: EESSI BoF, EESSI demo at Azure booth, MultiXscale talk at EuroHPC booth, talk at RISC-V workshop, talk at AHUG workshop, talk at POP workshop
    • Attending: Kenneth, Lara, Julian, Jure, Henk-Jan

Q&A

  • Next meeting: June 6
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