meeting Nov 3 2022

Notes for 2022-11-03 meeting

• date & time: Thu 3 Nov 2022 - 14:00 CEST (13:00 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 in last month (incl. EESSI Community Meeting)
  • Progress update per EESSI layer (incl. bot for software layer
  • 2021.12 version of pilot repository + outlook to next pilot version
  • AWS/Azure sponsorship update + OCRE funding opportunity
  • Update on MultiXscale EU project
  • Past & upcoming events
  • Q&A

Slides

• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20221103.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

• Hafsa Naeem (INUITS)

EESSI-related meetings in last month

(see slides)

Next EESSI hackathon / community meeting

• next hackathon still this year? week of 19-23 Dec'22? Follow-up discussion on Slack.
• next EESSI meeting
  • in London
    • not Imperial Collega (quite expensive)
  • coincide with an EasyBuild event or MultiXscale meeting?
  • UK HPC projects for "knowledge sharing", maybe we can piggy-back of those?
    • substantial budget for "knowledge sharing" (~10% of total budget)
    • see for example https://excalibur.ac.uk/projects/universe-hpc
  • 2-day introductory event to EasyBuild/EESSI?
• misc
  • EasyBuild tutorial at ISC (May 21-25), maybe it should include an EESSI part or have two tutorials ? [deadline early Jan'23]
    • consensus more towards focus on EasyBuild with a teaser for EESSI, opening for a later transition

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

Compatibility layer

(see slides)

• might try to build compat layer for RISC-V
• do we need rpm? probably not
• for direnv check if go is only needed during the build procedure
• general:
  • check what dependencies are needed for building only (and can be removed after a package was built)

Software layer

(see slides)

• do we need a test for detecting regressions caused by updates to compat layer (see #191 in software-layer)?
• mixing RPATH and LD_LIBRARY_PATH is something we probably want to avoid (see #192 in software-layer)
  • for a new version of software-layer we should patch Python as ComputeCanada has done
• ...

Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

2021.12 version of pilot repository + outlook to next pilot repository

(see slides)

AWS/Azure sponsored credits

(see slides)

MultiXscale EU project

(see slides)

Q&A

(see slides)