Conference call notes 20170426

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Notes on the 75th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday April 26th 2017 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
• Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Adam Huffman (Francis Crick Institute, UK)

Agenda

• outlook to EasyBuild v3.2.0
• Q&A

Notes

outlook to EasyBuild v3.2.0

• hopefully to be released sometime next week
• noteworthy changes (already merged in develop):
  • support for specifying easyconfig parameters on a per-extensions basis
    • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2194
  • additional functions in filetools module for copying of files/directories
    • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2180
  • support for allowing use of EasyBuild as root
    • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2123
  • support for marking new install module as default
    • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2110
  • verbose deprecation warnings
    • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2179
  • Python easyblock was enhanced to make installation of Tkinter optional (when Tk is not listed as a dep)
    • https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1156
  • support for VMD, WRF-Fire, Doris
• Fotis: nominate a couple of PRs
  • PyCUDA: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/4523
  • Singularity: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/4350

Other

• potential (remote) presentation on EasyBuild + Lmod + XALT at event in UK (at Francis Crick Institute or Univ. of Cambridge)? on Mon June 12th?

• Damian: problems with itac

  • an additional itac/<version> get added in to $VT_ROOT via itacvars.sh, bug is actually in IntelBase?
    • breaks traceanalyzer command (but traceanalyzer.bin works fine)
    • move_after_install is done, but itacvars.sh still points to wrong location
    • cfr. also impi https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/blob/master/easybuild/easyblocks/i/impi.py#L88

• time for another easyconfigs merge sprint

  • AP Kenneth: doodle to plan one sometime in May/June?

• support for auto-updating versions

  • leverage anitya as external library (cfr. GC3Pie)
  • https://github.com/release-monitoring/anitya/issues/384
  • kind of required for feature to update dependencies to specific versions, cfr. https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/2136

• bug in Intel MPI 2017.0.098: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/4508

  • only relevant to certain applications (list?)
  • Damian has a testcase to check
  • global workaround has performance impact and may not be needed, it's up to sites whether they want to put this in place or not?
  • AP Damian: also report this via EB mailing list