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Notes on the 77th EasyBuild conference call, Monday May 22th 2017 (5.30pm - 6.30pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (6):

  • Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)
  • Adam Huffman (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
  • Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

Agenda

Notes

SHA256 checksums
Other
  • Tkinter easyblock
  • Alan: Singularity & MPI
    • works well with recent OpenMPI 2.x
    • Singularity bind-mounts libraries via auto-detection
  • Davide: Rmpi with intel toolchains doesn't include patch anymore?
  • Åke: Python 3.6.1 install failed because of low stack limit that made Intel compilers fail when building hashlib.sha3
  • Davide: permission denied when installing setuptools as extension in Python 3.5.2
  • Fotis: installing 'fat' installations of R/Python/... can be an maintenance issue
2017b toolchains?