Sync meeting 2023 05 09 - multixscale/meetings GitHub Wiki

Sync meeting 2023-05-09

attending: Kenneth + Lara (HPC-UGent), Alan (CECAM), Susanna + Elisabeth + Killian + Pedro (HPCNow!), Caspar + Xin + Maxim + Satish (SURF), Bob (RUG), Xavier (BSC), Antonio (Leonardo)

  • overview of MultiXscale planning
  • new colleagues
    • HPC-UGent: Lara Peeters
    • SURF: Xin An
  • MultiXscale landing page @ https://github.com/multixscale/hub
  • WP status updates
    • [SURF] WP1 Developing a Central Platform for Scientific Software on Emerging Exascale Technologies
      • [UGent] T1.1 Stable (EESSI) - due M12+M24
      • [RUG] T1.2 Extending support (starts M9, due M30)
        • (effort has not started yet)
      • [SURF] T1.3 Test suite - due M12+M24
        • Finalized GROMACS test, which can serve as blueprint for other tests #16
        • WIP:
          • low level test of MPI libraries (OSU benchmark) #30
          • high level test (TensorFlow) to see if GROMACS blueprint generalizes easily to other applications #56
        • TODO:
          • clean up namespace of Python package (towards eessi.testsuite.*, eessi.testsuite.tests.apps.*, etc.)
          • set up CI for test suite (ReFrame dry run + run tiny tests in GitHub Actions)
          • potential collaboration with Digital Research Alliance of Canada (used to known as ComputeCanada) - requires being aware of a hierarchical module naming scheme
          • get more people to experiment with GROMACS test
      • [BSC] T1.4 RISC-V (starts M13)
        • (effort has not started yet)
      • [SURF] T1.5 Consolidation (starts M25)
        • (effort has not started yet)
    • [UGent] WP5 Building, Supporting and Maintaining a Central Shared Stack of Optimized Scientific Software Installations
      • [UGent] T5.1 Support portal - due M12
        • Killian has done some initial work on comparing alternatives for support portal
        • currently considering JIRA, RT, Bugzilla, GitHub, GitLab
        • see also https://github.com/multixscale/planning/issues/25
        • Lara will also actively help with this
        • focused meeting on this is being planned for some time in coming weeks
        • dedicated channel in MultiXscale Slack: #wp5-task51-support-portal
      • [SURF] T5.2 Monitoring/testing (starts M9)
        • (effort has not started yet)
      • [UiB] T5.3 community contributions (bot) - due M12
        • several PRs are open with enhancements/bug fixes/extra tests, to be reviewed/merged (AP Kenneth, Bob)
        • current implementation should be sufficient to use it for automated building software layer for EESSI pilot 2023.04
        • Alan and Lara will test workflow of using bot as a contributor (once it's properly documented)
        • notes of bot sync meetings available at https://github.com/multixscale/meetings/wiki/sync-meetings-bot-T5.3
      • [UGent] T5.4 support/maintenance (starts M13)
        • (effort has not started yet)
    • [UB] WP6 Community outreach, education, and training
      • ...
    • [HPCNow] WP7 Dissemination, Exploitation & Communication
      • ...
  • other stuff
    • ISC'23
      • MultiXscale at EuroHPC booth (talk + demo on Tuesday 10:15-11:00AM, "presence" required Wednesday 09:00-16:00)
      • EESSI/MultiXscale at Microsoft Azure booth (Wednesday morning, details TBC)
    • CASTIEL2
      • MultiXscale was paired with Vega
        • instead of Deucalion, which will only be available 2023Q4
      • request to "explore CI/CD for the following four to five weeks" #68
      • CVMFS may already available on Vega?
        • would require installing EESSI configuration
      • probably means using GitLab runners?
      • communication coffee break attended by Susanna
        • brainstorm session on stuff like social media profiles, tools for newsletters, ...
        • will be repeated monthly

Notes of previous meetings