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Azure meeting Feb 18 2022

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Feb 18, 2022 · 4 revisions

EESSI/Azure/SURF sync meeting 2022-02-18

Agenda

  • Overview of spent credits
  • EESSI hackathon January 2022
  • EUM'22
  • Monitoring
  • Repository for hosting datasets (e.g. for WRF)
  • EESSI paper published!
  • Azure support for CitC

Attendees

  • Bob Dröge (RUG)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
  • Davide Vanzo (MS Azure)
  • Alan O'Cais (CECAM)

Notes

Use of sponsored credits

  • January 2022: ~€1195
    • temporary Magic Castle cluster EESSI hackathon (Jan'22): ~€610
    • AMD Milan build node: ~€350
    • Stratum-1 in us-east: ~€200
  • February 2022 (partial): ~€112
    • basically only Stratum-1 in us-east

EESSI hackathon

EUM'22

Monitoring

Data repository

EESSI paper published

  • EESSI: A cross-platform ready-to-use optimised scientific software stack
  • https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3075
  • Open access
  • "Software: Practice and Experience" special issue on "New Trends in HPC"

Azure support for CitC

Work on GPU support

  • discussion with Davide
  • would also be relevant for Azure, business cases are popping up where GPU support in EESSI would be very useful!
  • technical issues are basically figured out during EESSI hackathons (effort led by Alan)
  • not being able to ship (full) CUDA toolkit is annoying, but not a blocker
    • shipping CUDA runtime would not be a problem
  • script is available to install what's needed: CUDA + compat libs
    • currently only works on CentOS
    • doesn't take into account all possible corner cases yet
    • but good enough to be included in EESSI for testing?
    • split up script in "install" and "test" phase
  • we also want to hide GPU-aware software installations until script has been run through an Lmod plugin
  • would be interesting to include CUDA samples in EESSI as a module
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