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Conference call notes 20200219

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Feb 19, 2020 · 7 revisions

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Notes on the 142nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Feb 19th 2020 (10:00 - 11:00 CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (7):

  • Miguel Dias Costa (Univ. of Singapore)
  • Victor Holanda Rusu (CSCS, Switzerland)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Thekla Loizou (Cyprus Institute)
  • Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
  • Alexander Strube (JSC, Germany)
  • Caspar Van Leeuwen (SURFsara, Netherlands)

Agenda

  • overview of recent changes, outlook to next release
  • update on 2020a update for common toolchains
  • Q&A

Overview of recent changes

2020a common toolchains

  • see project dashboard: https://github.com/orgs/easybuilders/projects/2
  • foss/2020a
  • intel/2020a
    • based on GCC 9.2.0 + binuutils 2.32 (maybe GCC 9.3?)
    • iccifort 2020.0.166 (a.k.a. 2020 initial, v19.1)
    • impi 2019.6.199
    • imkl 2020.0.166
  • merge sprint to kickstart 2020a generation of easyconfigs using temporary version of foss/2020a and intel/2020a (using release candidate for OpenMPI 4.0.3?)
    • to be planned (doodle), maybe 1st week of March?

Q&A

  • Caspar: working on PR for CLI option to print easyblock documentation
    • simple mode: configure/build/install
    • detailed mode, also step mode
  • Mikael: planning to make CP2K easyblock aware of --cuda-compute-capabilities configuration option
    • Caspar: CP2K v7.0 seems to be migrating to a newer build procedure
    • Mikael: issues with getting tests to pass, avoiding incorrect results
  • Miguel: PR for making --new-pr support easyblocks/framework mostly works
  • Thekla: working on NAMD, some feedback later
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