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Azure meeting Dec 9 2022

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Dec 12, 2022 · 1 revision

EESSI/Azure/SURF sync meeting 2022-12-09

(notes of previous meeting: https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-Oct-28-2022)

Agenda:

  • EuroHPC MultiXscale grant agreement is being signed
    • on track to start project 1 Jan 2023
  • EOSC Future grant (Ivar)
    • for requesting OCRE funding
    • SURF as aggregator
    • problem was that we had to chose 1 cloud provider
    • proposal with multiple providers is providing to be complicated
      • Google and AWS backed out
      • Azure & Oracle are still involved
    • Ivar has already worked a lot on this
      • Due Friday 16 Dec
      • Draft/concept available Tuesday
      • support letters from researchers using EESSI (recycle from previous proposal)
        • Too late for renewals, Alan will review the older ones and see if they are suitable for reuse
      • to do: write up some text on sustainability, onboarding, ...
  • EESSI at azhop workshop at SC'22
  • progress on build-and-deploy bot
  • set up a Slurm cluster in Azure
    • which tool? CitC, Magic Castle, azhop, Cyclecloud
    • Cylclecloud seems like the easiest short term solution (and can include auto-scaling)
    • No need for bells and whistles for the bot...and better to have it in it's own environment anyway
  • easystack file support in EasyBuild has been improved/extended
    • can now specify configuration options per easyconfig
  • GitHub Team plan for EESSI (Alan)
  • EESSI Hackathon Dec'22 (14-21 Dec)
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