10th EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• date: Wednesday November 11th - Friday November 13th 2015
  • week before SC15, http://sc15.supercomputing.org
• venue: TACC - Austin, Texas (US), see https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/contact
  • note: public transportation options to/from TACC to downtown Austin is very limited
  • recommended list of hotels: https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/about/hotels
• notes
  • social event: tour of the TACC HPC infrastructure (Stampede)

Attendees

For practical reasons, the number of participants is limited.

Please contact Kenneth Hoste ([email protected]) to register.

list of confirmed attendees (subject to change):

• Damian Alvarez (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany)
• Jared Baker (ARCC HPC Software Support, University of Wyoming)
• Timothy Brown (Research Computing, University of Colorado Boulder)
• Chris Bording (Pawsey Supercomputing Centre, Australia; Maali developer)
• Pablo Escobar (UniBas - SIB, Switzerland; EasyBuild contributor)
• Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria; EasyBuild contributor)
• Todd Gamblin (LLNL, USA; Spack developer)
• Markus Geimer (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany; EasyBuild contributor)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Robert McLay (TACC, Austin (TX), USA; Lmod developer)
• Jack Perdue (Texas A&M University, USA; EasyBuild contributor)
• Guilherme Peretti Pezzi (CSCS, Switzerland; EasyBuild contributor)
• Georg Rath (IMP/IMBA, Austria; EasyBuild contributor)
• Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada; EasyBuild contributor)
• Tom Vander Aa (IMEC, Belgium)

Topics

Attendees are free to work on what they want, but a couple of topics of interest are typically attached to each hackathon. The intention is to have discussions on these topics, and that some attendees work on these issues:

• getting started with EasyBuild and Lmod
• further improving integration between EasyBuild and Lmod
• further enhancing Lmod
• EasyBuild support for creating packages (RPMs, etc.)
• EasyBuild/Lmod on Cray systems

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

Wednesday November 11th 2015

• 9am - 9.15am: Welcome (Kenneth Hoste & Robert McLay)
• 9.15am - 10.15am: Lmod: introduction & recent developments (Robert McLay)
• 10.15am - 11.30am: EasyBuild: introduction & recent developments (Kenneth Hoste)
• 11.30am - 12.30pm: Installing and configuring EasyBuild/Lmod (hands-on)
• (12.30pm - 1.30pm: lunch)
• 1.30pm - 2pm: Packaging support in EasyBuild using FPM (Robert Schmidt)
• 2pm - 2.30pm: Using EasyBuild on Cray systems (Petar Forai)
• 2.30pm - 3pm: Discussion: EasyBuild at TACC?
• (3pm - 3.15pm: coffee break)
• 3.15pm - 4.30pm: EasyBuild/Lmod hackathon kickoff
• 4.30pm - 5pm: tour of the TACC HPC infrastructure (Stampede)
• (dinner)
• 7pm: Austin Python monthly meetup, see http://www.meetup.com/austinpython/

Thursday November 12th 2015

• 9am: setup
• 9.15am - 9.45am: EasyBuild conference call
• 10am - 11am: Introduction to XALT (Robert McLay)
  • https://github.com/Fahey-McLay/xalt
  • XALT is a job level tracker and census taker that records which executables and libraries users run
• 10am - 12.30pm: EasyBuild/Lmod hackathon (hands-on)
• (12.30pm - 1.30pm: lunch)
• 1.30pm - 5pm: EasyBuild/Lmod hackathon (hands-on)

Friday November 13th 2015

• 9am - 9.30am: Introduction to Maali (Chris Bording)
• https://github.com/chrisbpawsey/maali
• Maali is a software build and installation tool similar to EasyBuild
• 9.30am - 10am: Introduction to Spack (Todd Gamblin)
• http://scalability-llnl.github.io/spack
• Spack is a flexible package manager designed to support multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers, developed at LLNL.
• 10am - 12.30pm: EasyBuild/Lmod hackathon (hands-on)
• (12.30pm - 1.30pm: lunch)
• 1.30pm - 5pm: EasyBuild/Lmod hackathon (hands-on)

Notes

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