meeting Oct 1st 2020

• date & time: Thu Oct 1st 2020 - 2pm CEST (noon UTC)
  • (every first Thursday of the month)
• venue: (online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)
• agenda:
  1. Short introduction by new partners (if any)
  2. Progress report
     • Filesystem layer
     • Compatibility layer
     • Software layer
  3. Norwegian Environment for Scientific Software Installations (NESSI)
  4. Potential sponsorship by Microsoft Azure
  5. Next steps
  6. Q&A

Slides

• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/master/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20201001.pdf

Short introduction by new people

• quick introductions by:
  • Marcel Kemp (Dell Technologies)
  • John Dey (Fred Hutch Cancer Research Centre, Seattle)
  • Axel Rosén (Univ. of Oslo)

Progress in last month

Testing of 2020.08 pilot repo

• (see meeting slides for detailed info)

Filesystem layer (Bob)

• (see meeting slides for detailed info)

Compatibility layer (Peter)

• (see meeting slides for detailed info)

Software layer (Kenneth)

• (see meeting slides for detailed info)

Next steps

• (see meeting slides for detailed info)

Q&A

• Caspar: same performance for OpenFOAM on Haswell as native installation?
  • Kenneth: only tested single-node, no detailed performance comparisons yet
• Caspar: better documentation for using fuse-overlay container on build node needed