Conference call notes 20221012

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Notes on the 207th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 12 October 2022 (08:00 UTC)

Attendees

List of attendees (XXX):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)

• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

• Bart Oldeman (Digital Research Alliance of Canada)

• Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)

• Kurt Lust (UAntwerpen & LUST)

• Thomas Hayward-Schneider (Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, Germany)

• Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

• Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)

• Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)

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

• Alan O'Cais (CECAM)

• Sebastian Achilles (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)

• Caspar van Leeuwen (SURF, Netherlands)

• Davide Vanzo (Microsoft Azure)

• Alexander Grund (TU Dresden, Germany)

Agenda

• overview of recent developments + outlook to next EasyBuild release
• failing LAPACK tests with OpenBLAS-0.3.20 and GCC-11.3.0 (issue #16380)
• Q&A

Recent developments

• release timeline
  • latest release: EasyBuild v4.6.1 (12 Sept 2022)
  • ETA next release (EasyBuild v4.6.2?): by end of Oct?
• recent changes
  • framework
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyblocks
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
    • new software
      • ...
  • easyconfigs
    • ~XXX easyconfig PRs were merged since last conf call
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • (noteworthy) new software
      • see also overview at https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues?q=is%3Amerged+label%3Anew
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
• work in progress
  • framework
    • reported bugs / bug fixes
      • issues with -xHOST/-march=native on AMD issue #3793
    • enhancements
      • add support for easystack file that contains easyconfig filenames + implement parsing of configuration options (PR #4021)
      • adding support for the use of --from-pr _and other options) in easystack files (WIP PR #4057)
    • changes
      • print potential errors after running a command only once (PR #4065)
      • fix run_cmd error handling (PR #4067)
  • easyblocks
    • bug reports/fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • updates
      • ...
    • new software
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyconfigs
    • still over 700 open easyconfig PRs...
    • bug fixes
      • fix OpenBLAS 0.3.15 patch to correctly set the CPU core type for Tiger Lake (PR #15845)
      • make sure that InterProScan installation directory is writable before creating symlink to data in InterProScan_data easyconfig (PR #16169)
      • versioned syms for ncurses non-SYSTEM level PR #16270
    • new software
      • see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/labels/new
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • CP2K v9.1 & v2022.1 for foss 2022a (PR #16007)
      • TensorFlow 2.9.1 (PR #16008)
    • changes
      • inconsistent use of versionsuffix for Java (issue #16038)

Failing LAPACK tests with OpenBLAS-0.3.20 and GCC-11.3.0

• see (issue #16380

Q&A

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