Conference call notes 20180103

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Notes on the 93rd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday January 3rd 2018 (5pm - 5.30pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (5):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Teo Ioannis (CSCS, Switserland)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Bart Oldeman (McGill University, Canada)
• Rafael Alejandro Sarmiento Perez (CSCS, Switserland)

Agenda

• outlook to EasyBuild v3.5.1
• 2018a toolchains
  • PRs for foss/2018a and intel/2018a definitions
  • test results (rebuilding *-2017b easyconfigs with */2018a)
  • stricter policy w.r.t. software versions (one per toolchain) to try and increase adoption?
• Q&A

Notes

Outlook to EasyBuild v3.5.1

• ETA: mid January 2018
• framework (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/milestone/52)
  • no changes worth mentioned merged yet compared to v3.5.0
  • planned to go in for v3.5.1:
    • support for Modules v4 (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2365)
    • maybe some additional (very minor) bug fixes
• easyblocks (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/milestone/44) *
• easyconfigs (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/milestone/47)

2018a toolchains

• foss/2018a and intel/2018a toolchain definitions

  • intel/2018a https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5577
  • foss/2018a https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5578

• test results

  • building *-2017b easyconfigs with */2018a toolchains
  • HDF5 1.10.1 needs a patch to build with Intel compilers 2018 update 1
    • patch was already added by @reedts in https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5310
    • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5582
  • some builds fail because (hardcoded) -openmp is no longer recognised (should be -qopenmp or -fopenmp)
    • BLAST+
    • ESMF
  • LLVM 5.0.0 fails to compile due to error: expression must have a constant value