Conference call notes 20170412

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Notes on the 74th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday April 12th 2017 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (??):

• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)

Agenda

• Update on EasyBuild tutorial application for SC17
  • What advanced content is worth mentioning in a 1-day tutorial?
• PRs that people really would like to see merged in EB 3.2
  • Need to increase the reviewer pool?
• Making dummy more intuitive
  • See https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1233
• Q&A

Notes

EasyBuild Tutorial Application

• Application to be submitted this week
• Mix tutorial full day of Lmod and EasyBuild
  • Don't miss out on the "easy" stuff: how to create and contribute an easyconfig
    • Can highlight the git support

PRs that people really would like to see merged in EB 3.2

• System compiler and system MPI easyblocks
• Dump .yeb as .eb file
• TensorFlow
• Singularity

Making dummy more intuitive

• Difference in behaviour of toolchain version='' and version='dummy' is very non-intuitive

Q&A

• Fotis had some good suggestions for nice restaurants in Athens