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Conference call notes 20170301

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Mar 1, 2017 · 4 revisions

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Notes on the 71st EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday March 1st 2017 (5pm - 6pm CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (8):

  • Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany)
  • Pablo Escobar (UniBas/sciCORE, Switzerland)
  • Fotis Georgatos (Illumina)
  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
  • Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
  • Bart Oldeman (McGill University, Canada)
  • Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)
  • Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University)

Agenda

  • outlook to EasyBuild v3.1.1 (bugfix/update release)
  • allow running EasyBuild as root
  • Python/R/Perl easyconfigs (& more) for 2017a toolchains
  • Q&A

Notes

EasyBuild v3.1.1
Allowing to run EasyBuild as root
Easyconfigs for 2017a toolchains
Other topics
  • Fotis: preferred toolchains for bioinfo?

    • input from Pablo/Adam?
      • Pablo: quite conservative, still using goolf...
        • stuck to goolf because of user expectations, currently using goolf/1.7.20
        • could be fixed using custom module naming scheme that maps foss to goolf in module names
      • more about how toolchain is composed + versions, name isn't really important
      • Fotis: goolf/1.7.20 is convenient w.r.t. GCC 4.8.4
      • Adam: now foss/2016b
        • occasionally run into problems due to newer GCC version (5.3)
      • Pablo/Adam: to maximise the effort, a continuous integration service could be used to test with other toolchains
        • Travis can't be used for this due to time constraints for jobs
          • could be partially solved via containers, but probably not good enough to get 100% coverage
        • Pablo is working on an internal setup with GitLab for something like this, could be made public in the long term
          • GitLab seems to be up to the job
          • but, time is a bitch that takes no prisoners...
          • Fotis/Adam could try and pitch in to get this set up
          • also potential interest by Rob?
  • Alan: SystemMPI easyblock: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-easyblocks/pull/1106

    • works well with system OpenMPI & Intel MPI
    • Alan is processing last remarks now
    • may land in EasyBuild v3.1.1
  • Davide: user request to figure location of lib/include directories for particular modules

    • user need to known which locations to specify for libraries/include files
    • current approach, via 'module show'
    • locations are not strictly needed, since $CPATH and $LIBRARY_PATH
    • or tell users to use -I$EBROOTX/include -L$EBROOTX/lib
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