Conference call notes 20200722

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Notes on the 152nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday July 22nd 2020 (15:00 UTC, 17:00 CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (x):

• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

TODO

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Jörg Saßmannshausen (NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UK)
• Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
• Alexandre Strube (JSC, Germany)
• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford, UK)
• Leo Rojas (University of Sussex, UK)

Agenda

• 2020b update of common toolchains
• CUDA 11
• ParaView VTK rendering configuration
• Clang toolchain
• Q&A

2020b update of common toolchains

• we should start looking into this...
• GCC 10.1 (wait for 10.2)
• OpenMPI 4.1.0 (RC)
• no updates for Intel yet?

CUDA 11

• Using CUDAcore + dummy CUDA to share installations
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/10935
• Introduction of gcccorecuda https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/3385

Clang toolchain

• Markus Geimer @geimer has started to work on this.
• Use external LLVM for Clang?
• Put it under GCCcore?
• Include Flang or rely on GCCcore's gfortran for any potential

Q&A