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Maintainers conference call notes 20180704

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Jul 4, 2018 · 4 revisions

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Notes on the 1st EasyBuild maintainers conference call, Wednesday July 4th 2018 (4pm - 5pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (7):

  • Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
  • Miguel Dias Costa (National University of Singapore)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Ward Poelmans (VUB, Belgium)
  • Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
  • Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
  • Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

Agenda

  • early evaluation of MotW experiment
  • fixing 2018b toolchains
  • outlook to EasyBuild 3.6.2: what's left to do

MotW experiments

  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/Maintainer-of-the-week-(MotW)
  • feedback after MotW duty was mostly positive
  • Damian: haven't spent time I was hoping yet
  • Åke: more activity?
  • Miguel: more focus
  • Ward: difficult to combine due to cluster problems
  • tags for abandoned PRs?
    • will be picked during cleanup of old PRs
    • Miguel: can be done automatically via --close-pr
      • REFERENCE
  • Åke: may be helpful to document what to do during MotW duty?
  • conclusion: for now, let's try to keep it up...

2018b toolchains

  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/labels/2018b
  • foss/2018b was updated to include OpenBLAS 0.3.1 & OpenMPI 3.1.1
  • 2018b toolchains can be considered fixed now, will be included with EasyBuild v3.6.2
  • easyconfigs for Perl, Python 2 & 3 and R 3.5.1 using 2018b toolchains will be included too
  • Åke will try to look into fosscuda/2018b

EasyBuild 3.6.2

Other

  • Bart: OpenBLAS doesn't support Skylake X (AVX-512) well yet, cfr. https://github.com/xianyi/OpenBLAS/issues/1643 (FYI)
    • should be easy to see with HPL with foss/2018b vs intel/2018b on Skylake systems
    • (real) alternatives for OpenBLAS?
      • BLIS?, ATLAS?
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