WeeklyTelcon_20160719

Open MPI Weekly Telcon

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Attendees

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Agenda

Review 1.10

• Milestones
• A couple of things sitting against 1.10.4

Review 2.0.x

• Wiki

• 2.0.1 PRs that are reviewed and approved

  • v2.0.1 PRs are open. Need to get PRs reviewed!

• Blocker Issues *

• Milestones

• We release last Tuesday. Now taking in PRs.

• A lot of 2.0.1 PRs that did not get reviewed yet, so please get reviews.

• Howard and Jeff merging in low risk ones.

• nvidia failures with OFED install (false failures)

• cisco failures - still some failures here. Have to do with sparse groups. One of the PRs we haven't pulled in yet.

• IBM seem to do with spawn an intercomm interconnect - Don't think regressions from latest PR pulls.

• Cray - all associated with SPAWN, but CRAY PMI doesn't support it.

• Applaunch with Master doesn't work

• MPI_Info keys are weird.

  • SLURM direct launch wont work with Yalla (due to PMIx-Fence issue (it was changed to nonblocking)).
    • It's okay, since it will be fixed in 2.0.1 soon after.

Review Master MTT testing (https://mtt.open-mpi.org/)

MTT Dev status:

New Items:

• Gentle reminder that lots of 2.0.1 PRs haven't been reviewed yet.

• Migration ongoing, nothing's moved yet, just testing:

  • 6 domains (open[-]mpi.[org|com|net]) and their DNS servers transferred to new account on GoDaddy
  • ompiteam@gmail.com account created
    • all contribution paper work stored in Google Drive
    • want to release new version of contribution agreements (v1.6) with that email address for submissions
  • github web hooks
    • ompi-release-bot: not yet migrated
    • gitdub (commit emails): not yet migrated
  • HostGator plan purchased (thank you for the donation, Ralph!)
  • legacy @open-mpi.org email addresses
    • setup at HostGator
  • Main web site is 3 parts:
    • ompi-www repo: done (had to fix some PHP)
    • nightly tarballs: done (now being generated on Ralph's home server and scp'ed)
    • mailing list archives: ...see proposal below...
  • Mailing list
    • Hostgator support mailman (yay!); they can supposedly import our existing config
  • Trac (historical/read-only)
    • Still planning the migration
  • MTT:
    • Still planning the migration
  • Mailing list archives proposal:
    • Important to keep the old web archives around for all the commit messages and bug/issues that point to them
    • Also, huge amount of google-able answers to user questions
    • ...but why are we hosting our own mail archives?
  • Proposal: freeze the old pages and do all new archiving on mail-archive.com
    • Trivial to setup (subscribe them to our lists)
    • They can take old mbox archives to seed all the old messages
    • Stable platform: been running since 1998
    • Free!
    • Searchable
  • Discussion - why move legal docs to google drive? Fracturing information a bit.
    • familiar with google toolset, and possibly better sharing. Also long term plan to possibly host domains at google.
    • Could consolidate DNS and docs to godaddy / hostgator also.
    • can hostgater give us different passwords to different people? It'd be nice to consolidate to one solution for everything (and single authentication for members).
  • Updating Legal agreement to reflect to contributions@openmpi.org, and remove snail mail.
  • Mailing lists have some nice integrations that we can't move forward? Why are we doing this anyway.
    • Jeff looked at a couple, and liked mailarchive.com - long lived, and 3 nice features:
      • Will take old archives and recreate on their servers.
      • Remove a bit of burden from our website.
      • A way to configure GNU mailmain to precompute URL of where mail will be before it sends out.
        • Pipermail may be able to do this also, but don't know.
    • Hostgator would accept our old configurations, not sure if they'll take our mbox / pipermail for archives.
      • Ralph will dig into Hostgator.
  • Token amount (about $50)
    • Need a legal entity (individual or company) to open an account with.
    • Mellanox already does this for MPI Forum, so might be easy for them to do for this too.
    • weird to be under an individual. Want an online storefront that will provide a receipt.
    • First bill about $300 in September for github.
    • Ralph has agreed to pay first 3 years of Hostgator (around $400/3 years, may go up a bit).
    • Domain name re-registration coming up in March 2017.

Status Updates:

1. Mellanox
   • Artem sent out message rate email.
2. Sandia
3. Intel

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Status Update Rotation

1. Mellanox, Sandia, Intel
2. LANL, Houston, IBM
3. Cisco, ORNL, UTK, NVIDIA

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