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Kenneth Hoste edited this page Feb 17, 2023 · 5 revisions

Sync meeting 2023-02-14

Attending:

Excused:

  • general MXS topics
    • kickoff meeting (23-24 March)
      • executive board meeting was postponed (to Fri 17 Feb)
      • agenda/start time unclear
      • Ljubljana is difficult to get to from some places
        • airport in Trieste is a good option, bus service to Ljubljana
      • Alan will try and get an all-hands online meeting early March
      • opportunity to let new project manager at NIC introduce themselves
      • curious out hiring process, who's actually working on the project
      • intro presentation on EESSI, incl. demo (ideally using one of key apps in MXS)
    • no website yet, responsibility of NIC
    • poster at EuroHPC summit week
      • Alan submitted a poster
      • Thomas volunteered to present poster, Elisabeth will be there too (also for other project)
      • other "marketing" material? stickers, postcard, ...
    • how many people should attend per partner?
      • available budget in the project is quite limited
    • will remote attendance be possible?
      • Alan could facilitate that with his gear
    • ISC'23?
      • Elisabeth will attend (doitnow will have a booth, maybe do some EESSI promotion there)
      • attend RISC-V workshop
      • talks at AWS/Azure booths
  • WP1: status update
    • lead: SURF
    • highlights:
      • Created separate test-suite repo, ingested the version of GROMACS ReFrame test that was there
      • Expand on the GROMACS test to make this a blueprint for other tests (see this PR)
    • T1.3 Design and creation of a software test suite and facilitating CI for software developers
      • Actively involved: Sam (VUB), Caspar, Satish, Kenneth
      • Meetings
        • Thu, 9 Feb 2023, discussed status, how to progress
  • WP5: status update
    • lead: UGent
    • highlights:
    • T5.3 (D5.1 - M12) Facilitating community contributions to the central software stack
      • actively involved: Thomas, Jonas (UiB), Kenneth (UGent), Bob (RUG)
      • semi-weekly status meetings, tuesdays (17/01, 31/01, 14/02)
        • ~10 PRs merged: improvements, bug fixes, unit tests, improved interplay with software-layer, 1st version of eessi_container.sh
        • ongoing work: documentation and improved eessi_container.sh, bot/build.sh for software-layer
        • bot in use for EESSI (on AWS cluster, KH & TR) and NESSI (on 4+1 clusters, 5 users); bot can build for different EESSI-like repositories in parallel
      • additional "working" meetings
        • Thu, 19 Jan 2023: let bot build anything that provides a bot/build.sh script
        • Wed, 8 Feb 2023: PR#216 eessi_container.sh
        • Fri, 10 Feb 2023: PR#216 & documentation
      • some brainstorming on how to build a larger software stack, Tue, 24 Jan 2023
      • notes available https://github.com/multixscale/meetings/wiki/sync-meetings-bot-T5.3
    • discussion
      • handling of holes (package cannot be build for a specific target arch)
        • how to inform users?
      • updates of what has been ingested
        • currently manually; could be automated (bot overview ... related to PR#129)
    • deliverable on this (due M12)
      • too much of a moving target right now
      • could start working on this Sept/Oct'23
      • overview of what was implemented, what still needs to be done
      • also a publication?
      • keep it rather short pointing to PRs, documentation, etc.
      • nice image of the workflow
    • build container
      • issues with kernel version? should we use the oldest kernel available
    • does apptainer rely on certain kernel or enabled features in the kernel?
    • T5.1 (lead UGent)
      • support portal
      • ask around what people are using
      • figure out requirements + workflow
    • apps to include for WP2/3/4 (due M12)
      • OpenFOAM, LAMMPS, ESPRESSO, walBerLa, load balancing lib (ALL)
  • WP7: status update
    • only a quick meeting with Matej & co
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