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Notes on the 212th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 21 December 2022 (16:00 UTC)

Attendees

List of attendees (XXX):

  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)

  • Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)

  • Alex Domingo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

  • Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)

  • Alain van Hoof (TU Eindhoven, Netherlands)

  • Lev Lafayette (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia)

  • Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)

  • Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)

  • Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

  • Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)

  • Abdoul Wahid Mainassara (LuxProvide, Luxembourg)

Agenda

  • overview of recent developments + outlook to next EasyBuild release
  • update on porting of EasyBuild docs to MarkDown
  • 2022b update for common toolchains
  • Q&A

Recent developments

  • release timeline
    • latest release: EasyBuild v4.6.2 (21 Oct 2022)
    • ETA next release (EasyBuild v4.7.0): ASAP
  • recent changes
    • framework
      • bug fixes
        • always start with empty list for banned/requires libraries to avoid that corresponding build option is updated in-place (PR #4137)
        • fix container tests by using EPEL archive URL for downloading Singularity RPM (PR #4138)
      • enhancements
        • add sanity_check_load_module method to EasyBlock to provide control over when module is loaded during sanity check step (PR #4125)
        • also run unit tests with Python 3.11 (PR #4092 + add Python 3.11 to classifiers in setup.py (PR #4141)
        • add gfbf as subtoolchain of foss (PR #4143)
          • gfbf is short for GCC + FlexiBLAS + FFTW
          • can be used for software that requires BLAS/LAPACK/FFTW, but doesn't require MPI
          • example: SciPy-bundle (after moving mpi4py to a separate easyconfig)
      • changes
        • deprecate support for running EasyBuild with Python 2 (PR #4136)
        • auto-enable use of oneAPI C/C++ compilers for intel-compilers >= 2022.2.0 (PR #4135)
      • docs
        • ...
    • easyblocks
      • bug fixes
        • load module early during PythonPackage's sanity check step via sanity_check_load_module (PR #2828)
          • to fix --sanity-check-only not working for software installed with PythonPackage (see issue #2745)
      • enhancements
        • ...
      • updates
        • ...
      • changes
        • ...
      • new software
        • ...
    • easyconfigs
  • work in progress
    • framework
      • reported bugs / bug fixes
        • use -march=x86-64 -mtune=generic instead of -xSSE2 when using Intel oneAPI compilers (PR #4147)
        • partially skip test_det_copy_ec_specs if no GitHub token is available (PR #4149)
      • enhancements
        • add easybuild.tools.LooseVersion (since distutils is deprecated in Python 3.10) (PR #3794)
        • add support for using --output-format=md (MarkDown) (PR #4117)
        • add support for --filter-rpath-sanity-libs to skip RPATH sanity check for designated libraries (PR #4119)
        • make iimkl toolchain aware of intel-compilers (PR #4146)
      • changes
        • trim CI test configurations to avoid hitting GitHub rate limits (PR #4148)
    • easyblocks
      • bug reports/fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • set $TEMPDIRPATH for testsuite in the BerkeleyGW easyblock, to avoid polluting /tmp (PR #2836)
        • allow use of test_cmd without runtest for ConfigureMake (PR #2837)
        • enhance CMakeMake easyblock to run ctest command if runtest is True (PR #2838)
      • updates
        • ...
      • new software
        • ...
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyconfigs

Update on porting of EasyBuild docs to MarkDown

2022b common toolchains

  • no changes compared to candidate toolchains (foss/2022.10, intel/2022.11)
  • foss/2022b (PR #16961)
    • GCC 12.2.0 + binutils 2.39
    • UCX 1.13.1 + libfabric 1.16.1 + OpenMPI v4.1.4
    • OpenBLAS 0.3.21 + FlexiBLAS 3.2.1
    • FFTW 3.3.10 (current latest)
    • ScaLAPACK 2.2.0 (current latest)
  • intel/2022b (PR #16962)
    • base: GCC 12.2.0 + binutils 2.39
    • Intel C/C++/Fortran compilers 2022.2.1 (classic + oneAPI)
    • Intel MPI 2021.7.1
    • Intel MKL 2022.2.1
  • limited testing, only trouble with things unrelated to updated toolchain components
    • excessive long-running tests for netCDF on generoso (PR #16834)
    • changed install procedure for scipy >= v1.9 (PR #16912)
      • now using Meson to configure build
      • correctly specifying BLAS/LAPACK library to use is not straightforward (cfr. draft easyblocks PR #2848)
  • merged PRs
    • auto-enable use of oneAPI C/C++ compilers for intel-compilers >= 2022.2.0 (PR #4135)
      • opt-out for C/C++ possible via oneapi_c_cxx toolchain option
      • opt-in for Fortrab possible via oneapi_fortran toolchain option
    • (PR #4143)
    • Perl 5.36.0 w/ GCCcore/12.2.0 (done, see PR #16204)
    • Python 3.10.8 w/ GCCcore/12.2.0 (done, see PR #16632)
      • setuptools was downgraded to 63.4.3 (PR #16915)
    • X11 v20221110 w/ GCCcore/12.2.0 (done, see PR #16664)
    • Qt5 v5.15.7 with GCCcore/12.2.0 (PR #16810)
  • PRs to be merged
    • make iimkl toolchain aware of intel-compilers (PR #4146)
  • mpi4py is being split off from SciPy-bundle (cfr. PR #16912)

Q&A

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