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Notes on the 237th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 3 Jan 2024 (09:00 UTC)

Attendees

List of attendees (6):

  • Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Kurt Lust (UAntwerpen, Belgium + LUMI User Support Team))
  • Sébastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland))
  • Leonardo Honfi Camilo (Univ. of Wageningen, Netherlands)
  • Alexander Grund (TU Dresden, Germany)

Agenda

  • overview of recent developments
  • quick status update on development for EasyBuild 5.0
  • Q&A

Recent developments

  • latest EasyBuild release: 4.9.0 (30 Dec 2023)
  • next EasyBuild release: hopefully EasyBuild v5.0.0
    • there will only be an EasyBuild v4.9.1 if there's a clear need for it
  • ETA for EasyBuild 5.0 release: hopefully first EasyBuild release of 2024
    • started doing short sprint meetings, each Monday at 10:00 CE(S)T to set next 5 goals to tackle that week
    • monthly sync meetings every 1st Wed of the month at 14:00 CE(S)T: next today Wed 3 Jan'24 at 14:00 CET
    • see also https://hackmd.io/tZtz6vMmRfGL6N9Rf__OEA
  • recent changes
    • docs (merged PRs)
      • ...
    • framework (merged PRs)
      • bug fixes
        • fix support for Environment Modules as modules tool to pass unit tests with v4.2+ (PR #4369)
        • adapt module function check for Environment Modules v4+ (PR #4371)
        • relax major version match regex in find_related_easyconfigs using for --review-pr (PR #4385)
        • resolve templated values in extension names in _make_extension_list (PR #4392)
        • use more recent easyblocks PR in test_github_merge_pr (PR #4414)
      • enhancements
        • add support for --list-software --output-format=json (PR #4152)
        • adapt version pattern for EnvironmentModules to allow using development version (PR #4416)
        • use --all option with EnvironmentModules v4.6+ to get available hidden modules (PR #4417)
      • changes
        • ...
      • code cleanup
        • remove superflous string formatting (PR #4411)
        • clean up uses of getattr and hasattr (PR #4412)
      • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
        • bug fixes
          • ...
        • changes
          • ...
    • easyblocks (merged PRs)
      • bug fixes
        • add requirement for EULA acceptance to CUDA easyblock (PR #3045)
        • fix specifying path to SuiteSparse header files and libraries in numpy, Trilinos, PETSc easyblocks (PR #3056)
        • fix det_pylibdir provided by PythonPackage easyblock for Python 3.12+ (PR #3057)
        • take into account that binutils might be a filtered dependency for TensorFlow (PR #3058)
        • fix nvptx sanity check for Clang >= 14.x (PR #3059)
      • enhancements
        • add custom easyconfig parameter cmake_options to SuiteSparse easyblock (PR #3031)
      • updates
        • update custom easyblock for Intel MPI easyblock for v2021.11 (PR #3039)
        • update custom easyblock for Intel MKL for v2024.x (PR #3042)
      • changes
        • also consider $EB_COMSOL_LICENSE_FILE environment variable in custom easyblock for COMSOL (PR #3044)
      • new easyblocks
        • add generic CargoPythonBundle easyblock (PR #2964)
        • add custom easyblock for flook that includes install step (PR #3034)
      • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
        • ...
    • easyconfigs (merged PRs)
      • ~50 easyconfig PRs were merged since last conf call
      • bug fixes
        • use CargoPythonBundle generic easyblock for timm to install required Rust packages in a controlled way (PR #18332)
      • enhancements
        • ...
      • (noteworthy) new software
        • ...
      • noteworthy software updates
        • PyTorch v2.1.2 w/ foss/2022a (PR #19444) + foss/2022b (PR #19445)
          • easyconfig with CUDA is WIP
          • getting tests to work isn't really getting better with newer PyTorch versions...
          • we're running PyTorch test suite quite broadly, incl. "classic" Intel/AMD, AVX-512 (like Intel Sapphire Rapids), ...
        • foss/2023b (PR #19449)
        • intel/2023b (PR #19450)
      • changes
        • add versionsuffix -param to ReaxFF and add -sim variant (PR #19307)
        • let SuiteSparse easyblock set CMAKE_OPTIONS for SuiteSparse v7.1.0 (PR #19177)
      • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
        • ...
  • work-in-progress
    • docs (open PRs + issues)
    • framework (open PRs + issues)
      • reported bugs / bug fixes
        • Run unit tests on an updated version of Modules 4 (PR #4415)
      • enhancements
        • add check_group support for module files in Tcl syntax (PR #4418)
      • changes
        • drop load storm safe guard for Environment Modules v4.2.4+ (PR #4373)
        • use more performant and concise dict construction (PR #4410)
        • clean up & speed up environment checks (PR #4409)
      • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
        • deprecate failure to resolve a template value (PR #3285)
        • detect Fortran .mod files in GCCcore installations (PR #4389)
        • rename unclear run methods to install extensions (PR #4400)
        • use run_shell_cmd in scripts (PR #4422)
        • implement support for 'stream_output' option in run_shell_cmd (PR #4423)
        • replace parallel easyconfig parameter by maxparallel (PR #4398)
    • easyblocks (open PRs + issues)
      • bug reports/fixes
      • enhancements
        • update KOKKOS_CPU_MAPPING for AArch64 in LAMMPS (WIP PR #3036)
        • refactor GAMESS-US easyblock to directly write install.info (v2) (PR #3047)
      • updates
        • update Clang-AOMP easyblock for ROCm 5.6 (PR #2958)
      • new easyblocks
        • new easyblock for DualSPHysics (PR #3050)
      • changes
        • ...
      • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
        • enable download_dep_fail, use_pip, sanity_pip_check by default in PythonPackage easyblock (PR #3022)
          • needs some tests to make sure nothing is horribly broken (but should be fine)
          • follow-up is needed in easyconfigs, to:
            • clean up easyconfigs in 5.0.x branch that now set use_pip & co to True (see easyconfigs PR #19265)
            • explicitly set use_pip & co to False in (non-archived) easyconfig that currently don't specify them at all (which should be a minimal set of easyconfigs)
        • convert generic easyblocks to run_shell_cmd (PR #3046)
    • easyconfigs (open PRs + issues)
      • bug fixes/reports
        • add patches for OpenBLAS v0.3.21 to disable -ftree-vectorize for netlib LAPACK (PR #19280)
      • enhancements
        • ...
      • new software
        • ...
      • noteworthy software updates
        • Qt5 v5.15.11 w/ GCCcore/13.2.0 (for foss/2023b) (PR #19320)
      • changes
        • ...
      • EasyBuild 5.0 (to 5.0.x branch)
        • clean up easyconfigs that explicitly set use_pip, sanity_pip_check and download_dep_fail (PR #19265)
      • closed PRs
        • ...

Q&A / others

  • EasyBuild User Meeting 2024
    • Tue-Thu 23-25 April 2024 in Umeå (Sweden)
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