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Conference call notes 20190807
Kenneth Hoste edited this page Aug 7, 2019
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Notes on the 130th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Aug 7th 2019 (17:00 - 18:00 CEST)
Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):
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Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
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John Dey (Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, USA)
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Fotis Georgatos (SDSC, Switzerland)
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Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford)
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Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
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Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, USA)
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Lars Viklund (Umeå University, Sweden)
- outlook to next EasyBuild release
- update on progress towards EasyBuild 4.0
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2019b
update of common toolchains - Q&A
- EasyBuild v3.9.4
- last 3.x release?
- ETA: mid/end Aug'19
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(moving) pre-alpha "release" @ https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8568
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tweak easyconfigs to avoid warning due to use of local variables in easyconfig files
- cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2938
- docs update (still) pending, WIP @ https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/pull/527
- example (using
4.x
branches of all repos):eb GCCcore-8.3.0.eb -D == temporary log file in case of crash /Users/kehoste/work/TMP/eb-imshcunw/easybuild-970nrl8o.log WARNING: Use of 1 unknown easyconfig parameters detected in GCCcore-8.3.0.eb: mpfr_version If these are just local variables please rename them to start with 'local_', or try using --fix-deprecated-easyconfigs to do this automatically. ...
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--fix-deprecated-easyconfigs
can be useful, but is far from perfect in general, usual a better cleanup is possible/desired...
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- easyconfigs to clean up:
- any using local variables that don't use recommended naming scheme
- incl. toolchain easyconfigs, easyconfigs for Python packages that are not using
%(pyver)s
template values yet, ...
- PR to kickstart the effort: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8682
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support
system
toolchain as alias fordummy
in EasyBuild 3.x: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2960- require to ensure smooth transition to EasyBuild 4.0 via
eb --install-latest-eb-release
- require to ensure smooth transition to EasyBuild 4.0 via
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TODO:
- custom easyblock for
OpenMPI
- more testing with EasyBuild on top of Python 3...
- custom easyblock for
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foss/2019b
proposal: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8567 -
intel/2019b
proposal: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8681 - note:
binutils
version dropped fromversionsuffix
in subtoolchain:GCC/8.3.0
(rather thanGCC/8.3.0-2.32
) - some further testing needed to vet these proposals...