Conference call notes 20161207

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Notes on the 65th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday December 7th 2016 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (8):

• Damian Alvarez Mallon (JSC, Germany)
• Pablo Escobar (UniBas, Switzerland)
• Markus Geimer (JSC, Germany)
• Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
• Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)

Agenda

• common toolchains: foss/2017a, intel/2017a
• update on RPATH support
  • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1992
• Q&A

Notes

2017a common toolchains

• proposal for foss/2017a:

  • GCC 6.3 + binutils 2.27
    • GCC 6.3 to be released by Christmas (https://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc/2016-12/msg00015.html)
    • foss/2016b: GCC 5.4 + binutils 2.26
  • OpenMPI 1.10.4
    • foss/2016b: 1.10.3
    • note: too soon to jump to OpenMPI 2.0.1 (?)
  • OpenBLAS 0.2.19 + LAPACK 3.6.1 + ScaLAPACK 2.0.2
    • foss/2016b: OpenBLAS 0.2.18, LAPACK 3.6.1, ScaLAPACK 2.0.2
  • FFTW 3.3.5
    • foss/2016b: 3.3.4

• proposal for intel/2017a:

  • (GCC 6.3 + binutils 2.27 as base)
    • intel/2016b: GCC 5.4 + binutils 2.26 as base
  • Intel compilers 2017.1.132
    • intel/2016b: 2016.3.210
  • Intel MPI 2017.1.132
    • intel/2016b: 5.1.3.181
  • Intel MKL 2017.1.132
    • intel/2016b: 11.3.3.210