meeting Sep 2 2021 - EESSI/meetings GitHub Wiki

Notes for 20210902 meeting

20210902 meeting notes

  • date & time: Thu September 2nd 2021 - 2pm 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
    • 2021.06 version of pilot repository
    • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
    • Update on EESSI journal paper + S4 NeIC project proposal
    • Q&A

Slides

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth, Bob)

Quick introduction by new people

  • (none)

EESSI-related meetings in last month

  • CVMFS coordination meeting (Bob)
    • Kenneth: can/should we bundle module files and corresponding installation directories?
      • this would trigger probably too much stuff being downloaded on 'module load'...
    • Dennis: can bundles also be used to control what part of the CVMFS repo is downloded on a Stratum 1?
      • no, but it does affect what's being cached
  • meeting with SURF on leveraging Azure credits for EESSI

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer
  • good progress on semi-automated ingestion of tarballs that were uploaded to S3 bucket
Compatibility layer
  • Kenneth: how do we know when the security bot has issues?
    • Terje: can be part of the monitoring framework
  • Kenneth: how many custom ebuild files do we still have in our overlay?
    • Bob: only a few: archspec, ReFrame
Software layer
  • good progress on several small issues

2021.06 version of pilot repository

  • tarballs for 2021.06 software layer for aarch64 and x86_64 ready to ingest (will be used as test case for Bob's scripts to automate ingestion)

AWS/Azure update

  • There will be a public Slack channel for requesting access to Azure resources.

Update on EESSI journal paper + S4 NeIC project proposal

  • draft paper available on request

Q&A

  • Thomas has been working on a document that lists the risks of (using) EESSI. He will share the document, and maybe present a few slides about the topic during the next monthly meeting.