Conference call notes 20170719 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki
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Notes on the 81st EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday July 19th 2017 (5pm - 6.pm CEST)
Attendees
Alphabetical list of attendees (5):
- Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
- Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)
- Adam Huffman (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
- Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
- Shahzeb Siddiqui (Pfizer)
Agenda
- 2017b toolchains
- EasyBuild v3.3.1
- New small framework features coming
- Maintainers
- JSC public repo
- Q&A
Notes
2017b toolchains
- Not big changes since last telco
- GCC 6.4.0 has been merged https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/4794
foss/2017bhttps://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/4768- Still on hold waiting for OpenBLAS 0.2.20 (should be released this week: https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/1223)
intel/2017b- good to go, but should be released in sync with foss
- Fotis: You have to consider all the things that needs to be compatible. The more things you want to keep compatible the lower the version of GCC is going to be.
- Davide: We are constraint by CUDA, we will stick to 2016b.
EasyBuild v3.3.1
- No new issues for framework or easyblocks
- Minor new issues in the easyconfigs repo
New small framework features coming
- Backup of existing modules (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2134)
- Useful for adding properties, footers or load messages after installing software
- Shahzeb, Fotis: Useful for modifying licenses, headers, etc.
- Integration with Lmod and
userInGroup(https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2274)- Provides a more robust and detailed check when loading a module built for a particular group
- Davide: you can allow custom messages in the easyconfig, overloading the
groupeasyconfig parameter.
Maintainers
- Kenneth and Damian started using labels
- Should others follow suit?
- Davide and Adam: Yes
- Should others follow suit?
JSC public repo
- JSC released their EB repo (https://github.com/easybuilders/JSC)
- Contains easyconfigs, module naming schemes, easyblocks, toolchains and general setup with custom modules
Other
- Davide to host next telco
- Discussion about bundles vs individual packages for Python, R and others