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Conference call notes 20160608

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Jun 8, 2016 · 8 revisions

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Notes on the 53rd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday June 8th 2016 (5pm - 5.30pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

  • Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
  • Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
  • Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)

Agenda

Notes

2016b update of common toolchains
  • Kenneth's proposals (currently being tested thoroughly):
    • foss/2016b: foss/2016.06` (WIP), w/ GCC 5.4 & binutils 2.26 + OpenMPI 1.10.3
    • intel/2016b: intel/2016.03-GCC-5.4 (latest Intel tools on top of GCC 5.4 & binutils 2.26)
    • these are being tested with all existing foss/2016a and intel/2016a easyconfigs (resp.), via --robot --try-toolchain-version
    • Kenneth will report back results via EasyBuild mailing list
    • idea is to fix definition of 2016b by the end of the month
    • Damian ported lots of stuff to a GCC v5 based toolchain @ JSC
    • Rob: software that may be a problem with GCC 5.x probably already requires GCC 4.8.x (so doesn't work with 2016a toolchains anyway...)
      • 2nd/3rd point release should make compiler eligible for inclusion in common toolchains
    • first GCC 4.9 release was April 2014... (cfr. https://gcc.gnu.org/develop.html#timeline)
Ideas --new-pr & --update-pr
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