Conference call notes 20190807 - easybuilders/easybuild GitHub Wiki

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Notes on the 130th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Aug 7th 2019 (17:00 - 18:00 CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (2):

  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, USA)

Agenda

  • outlook to next EasyBuild release
  • update on progress towards EasyBuild 4.0
  • 2019b update of common toolchains
  • Q&A

Outlook to next EasyBuild release

  • EasyBuild v3.9.4
    • last 3.x release?
  • ETA: mid/end Aug'19

Update on progress towards EasyBuild 4.0

2019b update of common toolchains

  • foss/2019b proposal: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8567
  • intel/2019b proposal: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/8681
    • Davide: drop -GCC-* from versionsuffix for? iccifort
      • also drop -OpenBLAS-* suffix for ScaLAPACK?
  • note: binutils version dropped from versionsuffix in subtoolchain: GCC/8.3.0 (rather than GCC/8.3.0-2.32)
  • some further testing needed to vet these proposals...
  • include in next EasyBuild 3.x, or only in EasyBuild 4.0 as incentive to make the jump?
    • EasyBuild 4.0 will not include any actual (major) breaking changes, so that shouldn't hold back sites from picking up on 2019b toolchains

Q&A

  • (none)