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Notes on the 186th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Nov 24th 2021 (09:00 UTC)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (8):

  • Alex Domingo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford, UK)
  • Robert Mijakovic (LuxProvide)
  • Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)
  • Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)
  • Jörg Saßmannshausen (NIHR Biomedical Research Centre, UK)
  • Victor Holanda (CSCS, Switzerland)

Agenda

  • overview of recent developments
  • Q&A

Recent developments

  • release timeline
    • latest release: EasyBuild v4.5.0 (Oct 29th 2021)
    • ETA next release: end of Nov'21?
  • recent changes
    • framework
      • bug fixes
        • only remove lock if it was created in the same EasyBuild session (not if it existed already) (PR #3889)
        • don't try to ensure absolute path for path part of repositorypath (PR #3889)
          • required to fully fix regression w.r.t. using remote Git repository as easyconfigs archive (issue #3892)
      • enhancements
        • determine which extensions can be skipped in parallel (if --parallel-extensions-install is enabled) (PR #3890)
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyblocks
      • bug fixes
        • remove newline from package description (required to avoid installation error with setuptools>=59.0.0) (PR #2623)
        • update CP2K easyblock to use -D__MKL for CP2K versions newer than 2.3 (PR #2586)
      • enhancements
        • update Inspector easyblock for recent versions (>= 2021, oneAPI versions) (PR #2624)
        • update SAMtools easyblock to support installation of SAMtools 1.14 (PR #2620)
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyconfigs
  • to merge/fix/tackle soon
    • framework
      • reported bugs / bug fixes
        • fix builddir value when --sanity-check-only is used and buildininstalldir is enabled (PR #3900)
        • git_config confuses branches and tags (issue #3902)
      • enhancements
        • ...
    • easyblocks
      • bug fixes
        • set wm_* class variable in OpenFOAM easyblock when using --sanity-check-only (PR #2616)
      • enhancements
        • enhance Amber easyblock for AmberTools (PR #2618)
        • add option to control MKL-DNN in jaxlib (PR #2619)
        • add option to ignore PLUMED version check for GROMACS (PR #2621)
        • update PyTorch easyblock to avoid RPATH linking to CUDA stubs library in libcaffe2_nvrtc.so (PR #2622)
      • changes
        • allow oversubscription of MPI ranks w.r.t. available cores in sanity check
          • see also issue #13945: OpenMPI does not build on machine with six cores
          • allow oversubscription in OpenMPI MPI execution check (PR #2611)
            • see also PR #2570: prevent OpenMPI from failing on machines with less than 8 cores
          • skip motorBike tutorial case in OpenFOAM sanity check if available cores < 6 (PR #2615)
          • it would be better to have a central fix for this in framework, or at least something that can be leveraged easily from easyblocks/easyconfigs?
            • self.toolchain.allow_mpi_oversubscription() to call in sanity_check_step of specific easyblocks?
            • support for using sanity_check_allow_mpi_oversubscription = True in easyconfigs?
            • build option, configuration parameter?
      • new software
        • add custom easyblock for Clang-AOMP (PR #2617)
          • required for dependencies of HIP/ROCm 4.5.0
    • easyconfigs

Q&A

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