meeting 2023 08 03

Notes for 2023-08-03 meeting

• date & time: Thu 3 Aug 2023 - 14:00 CEST (12:00 UTC)
  • (every first Thursday of the month)
• venue: (online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)
• agenda:
  • Quick introduction by new people
  • EESSI-related meetings in last month
  • Progress update per EESSI layer (incl. build-and-deploy bot + test suite)
  • EESSI pilot repository
  • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
  • Update on MultiXscale EuroHPC project
  • Upcoming events
  • Q&A

Slides

• https://raw.githubusercontent.com/EESSI/meetings/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20230803.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

• No new people

EESSI-related meetings in last month

(see slides)

• ...

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

• ...

Compatibility layer

(see slides)

• ...

Software layer

(see slides)

• ReFrame

Build-and-deploy bot

(see slides)

• ...

EESSI test suite

(see slides)

• next targets for additional tests
  • OSU Microbenchmarks (ongoing)
  • ESPResSo (in context of MultiXscale)
  • OpenFOAM (cfr. EESSI demo)
  • Bioconductor (cfr. EESSI demo)
• should also start looking into performance monitoring
  • how to collect reference values, etc.

EESSI pilot repository

(see slides)

• ...

EESSI Contribution Policy

(see slides)

• ...

EESSI Support Portal

(see slides)

• ...

AWS/Azure sponsored credits

(see slides)

• ...

MultiXscale EU project

(see slides)

• ...

Events

• Caspar was asked to give a talk at CompBioMed conference in Munich
• Some potential interest (via Caspar) from SKA project in EESSI w.r.t. software distribution, and trading of use of CVMFS vs containers

Q&A

• Alan played around with patchelf and $LD_PRELOAD on AWS with EFA, cfr. https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/issues/252