Conference call notes 20200108

(back to Conference calls)

Notes on the 139th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Jan 8th 2020 (17:00 - 18:00 CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Fotis Georgatos (SDSC, Switzerland)
• Victor Holanda Rusu (CSCS, Switzerland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
• Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
• Davide Vanzo (UT Southwestern)

Agenda

• outlook to next release (EasyBuild v4.1.1)
• component updates for 2020a common toolchains
• Q&A

Outlook to next release

• EasyBuild v4.1.1, release (hopefully) next week
• framework
  • recent (noteworthy) changes in develop:
    • ensure correct exec/search permissions on subdirectories - https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3147
    • only useful entries in CPATH, PATH, etc. - https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3145 + https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3152
    • support for eb --show-ec: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3132
    • support for eb --copy-ec: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3142
• easyblocks
  • recent (noteworthy) changes in develop:
    • Use major/minor version of Python command being used if req_py_majver/req_py_minver are not specified
    • derive easyblock for iccifort only from icc easyblock (not ifort)
    • Don't set $CPATH and $LIBRARY_PATH anymore for GCC and GCCcore
    • derive easyblock for iccifort only from icc easyblock (not ifort)
    • make sure $PYTHONNOUSERSITE it set when performing sanity check for (bundles of) Python package(s)
• easyconfigs
  • recent (noteworthy) changes in develop:
    • OpenFOAM v1912, Julia 1.3.1, Clang v9.0.1

Component updates for 2020a common toolchains

	2019a	current latest version	2020a
GCC	8.3.0	9.2 (Aug'19)	9.2 (or 9.3?)
binutils	2.32	2.33.1 (Oc't19)	2.33.1 (or stick to 2.32?)
OpenMPI	3.1.4	0.4.2 (Oct'19)	4.0.2 (or 4.0.3?)
OpenBLAS	0.3.7	0.3.7 (Aug'19)	0.3.7 (or newer)
ScaLAPACK	2.0.2	2.1.0 (Nov'19)	2.1.0
FFTW	3.3.8	3.3.8 (May'18)	3.3.8
iccifort	2019 update 5	2020 initial (Dec'19)	2019 update 5?
impi	2018.5.288	2019 update 6 (Dec'19)	2019 update 6?
imkl	2019.5.281	2020 initial (Dec'19)	2019 update 5?

• https://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Common-toolchains.html

• new GCC 9.x release soon?

• OpenMPI 4.0.3 expected by end of Jan'20 (https://github.com/open-mpi/ompi/milestone/52)

Q&A