Conference call notes 20220202

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Notes on the 190th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 2 Feb 2022 (09:00 UTC)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

• Simon Branford (University of Birmingham, UK)

• Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)

• Kurt Lust (Univ. of Antwerp, Belgium + LUMI User Support Team)

• Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)

• Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)

• Jörg Saßmannshausen (NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UK)

• Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

• Alexandre Strube (JSC, Germany)

• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford, UK)

Agenda

• overview of recent developments
• OpenMPI + CUDA, OpenMPI 5.x
• Q&A

Recent developments

• release timeline
  • latest release: EasyBuild v4.5.2 (24 Jan 2020)
  • ETA next release: end of Feb'22?
• recent changes
  • framework
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyblocks
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
    • new software
      • ...
  • easyconfigs
    • >XXX easyconfig PRs merged since last conf call!
    • bug fixes
      • add patch for hard-coded checksum value of downloaded source file in the source code of RDKit 2021.03.4 (PR #14743)
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • (noteworthy) new software
      • see also overview at https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues?q=is%3Amerged+label%3Anew
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
  • framework
    • reported bugs / bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • extend framework to enable modules to ship RPATH wrappers (issue #3918)
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyblocks
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
      • set CUDA target architecture(s) for GROMACS based on cuda_cc_semicolon_sep template value (PR #2655)
      • enhance CUDA easyblock to create version independent pkgconfig files (PR #2656)
    • changes
      • set cairo as default bitmaptype for R in etc/Rprofile.site (PR #2647)
  • easyconfigs
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • new software
      • see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/labels/new
      • MPItrampoline (WIP) (PR #14607)
    • noteworthy software updates
      • AlphaFold v2.1.1 with foss/2021a (PR #14500)
        • tests are failing on A100 GPU cluster @ HPC-UGent?
    • changes
      • ...

Q&A

• ...