Notes for 2023-06-01 meeting

• date & time: Thu 1 June 2023 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
  • (every first Thursday of the month)
• venue: (online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)
• agenda:
  • Quick introduction by new people
  • EESSI-related meetings in last month
  • Progress update per EESSI layer (incl. build-and-deploy bot + test suite)
  • EESSI pilot repository
  • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
  • Update on MultiXscale EuroHPC project
  • Upcoming events
  • Q&A

Slides

• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20230601.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

• ...

EESSI-related meetings in last month

(see slides)

• ...

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

• we should start collecting some data on performance of different Stratum-1 servers
  • with a realistic use case, like running the TensorFlow demo
  • should be done in a container so we can control the Stratum-1 being used
  • on a tiny instance in AWS (every X hours?)
  • in Slurm jobs on our HPC clusters (daily?)
  • could be done on monitoring server (since that's what it meant for)
• look into using CDN like Cloudflare (and learn from what The Alliance did)

Compatibility layer

(see slides)

• ...

Software layer

(see slides)

• ...

Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

• ...

EESSI test suite

• ...

EESSI pilot repository

(see slides)

• ...

AWS/Azure sponsored credits

(see slides)

• ...

Issues arising from AWS HPC Tech Short recording

• end users of EESSI will contact us when they run into segmentation faults, even though the cause may be not having enough memory available - how will we deal with this?

MultiXscale EU project

(see slides)

• ...

Events

• EESSI demo at Azure booth wasn't what we had in mind (small screen on the side, not central large screen, not well attended)

Q&A

• ...