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MultiXscale WP1+WP5 sync meetings

Next meetings

  • Tue 14 May 2024 10:00 CEST
    • clashes with ISC'24!
    • reschedule to Tue 7 May?

Agenda/notes 2024-04-09

attending:

  • Neja (NIC)
  • Xin, Maksim, Satish (SURF)
  • Alan (UB)
  • Richard, Thomas (UiB)
  • Bob (RUG)
  • Nadia, Eli, Susana, Helena (HPCNow!)
  • Lara (UGent)
  • Julian (BSC)

project planning overview: https://github.com/orgs/multixscale/projects/1

EuroHPC Summit 2024 (Antwerp, 18-21 March 2024)

  • link to notes during last sync meeting https://github.com/multixscale/meetings/wiki/Sync-meeting-2024-03-12#eurohpc-summit-2024-antwerp-18-21-march-2024
  • overall impressions:
    • lots of possibilities to show EESSI
    • noticed presence (particularly during CoE/NCC session on Thursday)
    • great to socialize with project partners
    • many CoEs have the same problem "How to get software distributed"
    • ambassadors within CoEs?
      • contact with Thor Wikfeldt (ENCCS, Sweden)
      • topic "how to use EESSI"
      • onboard people
  • applications
    • POP (CoE), Extrae tool (Kenneth worked on it, but wasn't successful, see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/20153)
    • QuantumEspresso (work started before, met developers, got some contacts, Davide can get in contact with them)
      • was slow to build (ConfigureMake)
      • new method (CMake)
      • also performance improvements (related to non-optimized configuration)
      • also use of GPUs? QE is Fortran code, they need NVHPC toolchain is needed
      • good follow-up possibilities with developers
  • Kenneth is going to write a post about the Summit

MultiXscale General Assembly (Antwerp, 21-22 March 2024)

  • discussion of status, implications of review, work plan for this year
  • set up closer collaboration between technical partners and scientific partners
  • need EESSI-extend module
    • shipped via EESSI
    • need a way to handle EasyBuild hooks (eb_hooks.py)
      • putting it under init directory (may end up with similar issue like updating Lmod cache)?
  • next GA near Barcelona (1st/2nd week of April '25)

Notes

  • ...

Overview progress per WP

WP1 (Developing a Central Platform for Scientific Software on Emerging Exascale Technologies)

  • Hackathon (March 26) was very useful in getting some (large/long-standing) PRs merged
  • paper submission to RISC-V workshop at ISC'24 accepted!
    • Preparing to Hit the Ground Running: Adding RISC-V support to EESSI
  • Submission to Arm HPC User Group workshop at ISC'24 accepted!
    • Extending Arms reach by going EESSI
  • EasyBuild 4.9.1 was released and made available in EESSI
    • Noteworthy feature for EESSI: add support for --from-commit and --include-easyblocks-from-commit
      • how do we use it? start with --from-pr but before merging fix it?
      • need to update contribution policy
      • can we use CI to document/enforce which commit is used?
      • cannot convert existing --from-pr to --from-commit?
      • check_missing_installation.sh
        • EB version is specific to easystack file
        • could change that so 4.9.1 or newer is used
        • do not run checks for previous EB versions?
        • needs some CI/checks to ensure that no legacy easystack files are used
      • good task for next hackathon?
  • Lots of additions to the repository, e.g.:
    • OpenFOAM v10
    • R-bundle-CRAN
    • R v4.2.2
    • Modflow
    • Qt5 v5.15.13
    • ImageMagick v7.1.1-15
    • Several PRs to improve the configuration of Lmod hooks/customizations (both internal ones and for sites/users)
  • Also see slides of last week's EESSI mothnly update meeting: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20240404.pdf
  • Ongoing work on tests for LAMMPS, QuantumEspresso, and PyTorch, and GROMACS (working with the developers, issues on neoverse_v1)
  • test suite
    • open PRs for QE, PyTorch
    • see documentation for setting testing up on your local HPC (hint to NESSI people)

WP5 (Building, Supporting and Maintaining a Central Shared Stack of Optimized Scientific Software Installations)

  • Please check the proposal for the support rotation for July-September: https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/wikis/Proposal-support-rotation
  • Ongoing: weekly support sync meetings
  • bot:
    • some upcoming new release making it more agnostic to what it builds, other smaller changes (checking configuration)
    • improve the ingestion (more flexible, more efficient)
    • support dev.eessi.io ?

WP6 (Community outreach, education, and training)

  • working on getting Ambassador program going
  • tutorial at SC?
    • deadline April 19
    • need people who go
    • Alan cannot go this year
    • MultiXscale cannot pay for most of the costs
    • SC covers flights for two presenters
  • discussion about joint workshop of scientific partners
    • discussing with CECAM (advertisement, support, ...)
  • end of May (Norwegian Bioinformatics)
    • presenting EESSI + MultiXscale
    • Nextflow demo
    • direnv

WP7 (Dissemination, Exploitation & Communication)

  • attending TeraTec Paris?
    • discuss next week
    • two tickets: Eli & maybe Lara
  • flyer for MultiXscale
    • discuss with Neja
    • share within general
  • abstract for presentation at POP3 workshop at ISC
  • sent material, postcard and stickers to baltic HPC
  • ISC
    • poster (Pauline, EuroHPC)
    • video
  • Task 7.1

WP8 (Management and Coordination)

  • Quarterly Reports due by April 26
    • link
  • COLA signatures received for technical partners
  • in contact with new Project Officer
    • for delaying deliverables we should put this in the amendment
      • tech WPs: drop one task and divert effort to collaboration (WP8)
    • not sure when we'll get the report from the review

CASTIEL2

  • meeting CI/CD
    • Wednesday, April 10, 10:00am or 11:00am (UTC+2)

Notes of previous meetings

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