meeting 2024 01 11 - EESSI/meetings GitHub Wiki

Notes for 2024-01-11 meeting

  • date & time: Thu 11 Jan 2024 - 14:00 CET (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 and events in last month
    • Progress update per EESSI layer (incl. build-and-deploy bot + test suite)
    • Update on EESSI production repository software.eessi.io
    • Update on support for NVIDIA GPUs in EESSI
    • Update on EESSI test suite
    • Support for EESSI
    • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
    • Update on MultiXscale EuroHPC project
    • Upcoming/recent events: EuroHPC User Day 2023 + ISC’24
    • Q&A

Slides

Meeting notes

(by Bob/Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

  • Hugo Meiland (Microsoft HPC)

EESSI-related meetings in last month

(see slides)

  • collaboration with SKA and EESSI
    • they're now looking into adding initial set of software to software.eessi.io

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

  • ...
Compatibility layer

(see slides)

  • GitHub Action needs to be updated to also support software.eessi.io
    • Alan worked on that already, latest release should support the new repo
Software layer

(see slides)

  • starting to get contributions from people outside of EESSI
Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

  • job manager is still crashing every now and then (see issue #193)
    • temporary workaround is in place, but it should be fixed properly...
EESSI repository

(see slides)

  • ...
GPU support
  • Bob: are the sysadmin privileges required for configuring the variant symlink?
    • Yes, or for granting write permission to the default location (/opt/eessi). The script itself is not supposed to be run with root privileges, we'll add a check for that.
  • Alex: what are those scripts actually doing exactly?
    • link_nvidia_host_libraries.sh installs symbolic links to host OS GPU driver libraries in /cvmfs/software.eessi.io/host_injections; it does not install drivers, and it does not install anything outside the host_injections directory.
EESSI test suite

(see slides)

  • ...
Support for EESSI

(see slides)

  • ...

AWS/Azure sponsored credits

(see slides)

  • node images for Azure
    • Azure has best collaboration with AlmaLinux
    • should keep in touch

MultiXscale EU project

(see slides)

  • ...

Events

  • EuroHPC User Summit 2023
  • ISC'24

Q&A

  • ...