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Conference call notes 20160427
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Notes on the 50th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday April 27th 2016 (5pm - 5.30pm CEST)
Alphabetical list of attendees (8):
- Damian Alvarez Mallon (JSC, Germany)
- Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent)
- Adam Huffman (Francis Crick Institute, UK)
- Gizo Nanava (Leibniz Universität Hannover, Germany)
- Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)
- David Ramírez (HPCsia, Spain)
- Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada)
- ongoing switch from Jenkins to Travis as infrastructure for testing
- 'module use' PR (https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/pull/1735)
- Q&A
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welcoming two newcomers: David & Gizo, been looking into EasyBuild in last couple of weeks
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transition to Travis:
- examples:
- PRs are currently being tested with both Jenkins and Travis
- idea is to switch to only Travis in the coming weeks
- no more notifications through comments for failing/successful tests
- mainly an issue for release manager?
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limiting
ModulesTool
instances being created results in significant speedup- framework tests runs 2x faster
- dry run with
--minimal-toolchains
and HMNS is ~2x faster - follow-up to also tackle abundance of
module avail
: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1739
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PGI support: roadmap @ https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/issues/211
- Rob: up for testing
- Damian: using PGI (+MVAPICH2 2.2b GDR) has worked out quite well (HDF5, netCDF (serial + parallel), ...)
- problem with building GMP with PGI, requires
precise
- Kenneth: use
strict
instead?
- Kenneth: use
- problem with building GMP with PGI, requires
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Adam: PRs for older versions of software of any use?
- Kenneth: sure!
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Damian: build deps are not loaded when installing extensions?!
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ld.gold
was being picked up from system during installation of Perl modules - https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild-framework/issues/1741
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Fotis:
module use
gets undone when new bash shell is started on some systems, because/etc/profile.d
script is hard redefining$MODULEPATH
- to try and reproduce:
module use /tmp/modules
echo $MODULEPATH
bash
echo $MODULEPATH
- to try and reproduce:
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Fotis: defining
$MODULEPATH
based on group membership?- Alan: yes, this is done at JSC, via profile script
- Fotis: relying on
id
? - Alan: performance issues when 'module use/unuse' is used
- (taken 'offline')
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Gizo: use of
group
easyconfig parameter, what's the need for theos.setgid
call inuse_group
function?- group ownership is also correct without the
os.setgid
call, so why is it needed? - currently use of
newgrp
is enforced, but this resets the environment, and thus potentially undoes part of EasyBuild configuration
- group ownership is also correct without the
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Gizo:
--subdir-user-modules
doesn't work as intended? no documentation available?