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Notes on the 41st EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday December 9th 2015 (5.15pm - 5.45pm CEST)
Attendees
Alphabetical list of attendees (8):
- Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
- Pablo Escobar (UniBas, Switzerland)
- Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, AUstria)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
- Lumír Jasiok (IIT4Innovations, Czech Republic)
- Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
- Guilherme Peretti Pezzi (CSCS, Switzerland)
- Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)
- Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
Agenda
- update on support for 2016 versions of Intel tools
- update on progress towards EasyBuild v2.5.0
- open Q&A
Notes
2016 versions of Intel tools
- Intel compilers: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/756
- IPP: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/759
- TBB, Vtune, Advisor (new) coming up
EasyBuild 2.5.0 roadmap
- https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/issues/170
- 3 major open issues:
- GCCcore support
- 2016 versions of Intel tools
- problems with Python packages being picked up from the OS
- hopefully ready/released by Dec 17th 2015
other
- Guilherme: stabilise Cray support?
- https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1390
- manually compose module for CrayGNU
- conf call with Petar
- disable experimental for packaging support (Robert)
- Lumír: hackathon in Lugano/CSCS March'16?
- March Mon-Wed 21-23 2016: http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2016/swiss-workshop/
- EasyBuild hackathon would take place afterwards: Thu-Fri March 24-25 2016 @ CSCS
- not 100% sure yet, needs follow-up from CSCS
- Alan: direct way to control optimization flags like -O2?
- not yet, but something like
--optflagswould make sense --optarch=O1can be used as a workaround- also related to
--include-toolchainsnot (always) working, cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1497
- not yet, but something like