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Conference call notes 20170621

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Sep 4, 2017 · 6 revisions

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Notes on the 79th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday June 21st 2017 (5pm - 6.pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (7):

  • Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
  • Pablo Escobar (UniBas, Switzerland)
  • Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Adam HUffman (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
  • Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)

Agenda

Notes

EasyBuild v3.3.0
More helping hands for reviewing/testing/merging contributions
  • mainly for easyconfig PRs, but there should also be other people that can merge PRs to easyblocks/framework repos
  • checklist: https://gist.github.com/boegel/315385ae425268cb75ec583f451da88b
  • Pablo: make EasyBuild also consider other easyconfig repos in easybuilders project
    • let eb warn about finding easyconfigs in other repos like archived easyconfigs
    • Kenneth: e.g. JSC (Adam, Damian), CSCS(?), Cyprus Institute(?), easybuild.experimental, ...
  • being eligible for merge rights can be treated loosely if needed by @boegel as BDFL
2017b toolchains
  • intel/2017b

    • latest & greatest components:
      • GCC 7.1.0 (20170502) + binutils 2.28 (20170302)
      • Intel compilers 2017.4.196 (20170510)
      • Intel MPI 2017.3.196 (20170506)
      • Intel MKL 2017.3.196 (20170428)
    • TODO:
  • foss/2017b

    • latest & greatest components:
    • TODO
      • prepare PR
      • test existing foss/2017a (& foss/2016b?) easyconfigs with proposed foss/2017b
  • should be part of EasyBuild v3.3.1 (mid July)

Other
  • near future: toolchain for new AMD systems
  • also: Fortran compiler for Clang (beta), ARM Fortran compiler, ...
  • Alan: issues on OpenPOWER with config.guess and config.sub
    • these need to be patched to make build work on OpenPOWER
    • released version don't include required changes
    • copy over config.guess/config.sub & repack tarball
    • does Jack have any experience with this?
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