Conference call notes 20170104

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Notes on the 67th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Jnauary 4th 2017 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (??):

• Pablo Escobar (UniBas, Switzerland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)

Agenda

• final definition for foss/2017a and intel/2017a common toolchains
• upcoming releases: EasyBuild v3.0.3, EasyBuild v3.1.0
• long-term goals in 2017
• Q&A

Notes

2017a toolchains

• foss/2017a WIP PR: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/3968

  • requires https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1077 for flex 2.6.3
  • still using LAPACK 3.6.1 because of problems with LAPACK 3.7.0 in combination with OpenBLAS 0.2.19
    • cfr. https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/1042
  • still using OpenMPI 2.0.2rc2, should be updated to final 2.0.2 release (once it's there)

• intel/2017a WIP PR: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/3969

EasyBuild v3.0.3

• minor release that includes 2017a common toolchains

EasyBuild v3.1.0

• feature release, with (slightly) enhanced framework

Long-term goals in 2017

• more frequent minor releases (cfr. v3.0.x)
• (stable) support for fat .yeb easyconfigs
• ...