Conference call notes 20180328

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Notes on the 98th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday March 28th 2018 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (2):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)

Agenda

• (no agenda set)
• Q&A

Bart's PRs

• add -ftree-vectorize to default opt flags
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2388
• support for depends_on
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2391
  • modelled after support for --recursive-module-unload (since it's very related)
• add support for 'golf' toolchain
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2458
  • see also https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6080
• fix imkl easyblock for building without FFTW interfaces
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1393
• imkl easyblock
• quick fix for imkl sanity check
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1392

Other

• Kenneth has finally found some time to review Shahzeb's PR for adding Singularity integration
  • more time needed to further clean up the code before it can be merged
  • CLI options need to be reworked to take into account Docker integration as well (WIP by Bright Computing)
  • also missing: tests
  • intention is still to include this in EasyBuild v3.6.0...