Notes for 2022-08-04 meeting

• date & time: Thu 4 Aug 2022 - 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. bot for software layer)
  • 2021.12 version of pilot repository + outlook to next pilot version
  • AWS/Azure sponsorship update + OCRE funding opportunity
  • Google Summer-of-Code project: Gentoo Prefix on RISC-V
  • Update on MultiXscale EU project proposal
  • Upcoming events
  • Q&A

Slides

• available at https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20220804.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

• Diebert van Rhijn (VU Amsterdam)

EESSI-related meetings in last month

• Azure/EESSI sync
  • we haven't actually seen the OCRE project proposal that was submitted by Bechtle yet...

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

Compatibility layer

(see slides)

Software layer

(see slides)

Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

2021.12 version of pilot repository + outlook to next pilot repository

(see slides)

AWS/Azure sponsored credits + OCRE project proposal

• need for additional sponsored credits for AWS become more pressing
  • we can cut down spending of credits a bit if needed to buy us more time
  • get another bag of "bridge" credits should be easy if really needed...

GSoC project on RISC-V support for Gentoo Prefix

(see slides)

• bootstrapping Gentoo Prefix on RISC-V works! \o/

MultiXscale EU project

• official confirmation expected in September
• planning to give a detailed presentation about MultiXscale + relation to EESSI in coming months (Oct/Nov?)

Q&A

• ...