Conference call notes 20200219

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Notes on the 142nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Feb 19th 2020 (10:00 - 11:00 CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

• Victor Holanda Rusu (CSCS, Switzerland)

• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

• Lars Viklund (Umeå University, Sweden)

• Oriol Mula (HPCNow!)

• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)

• Alexander Strube (JSC, Germany)

• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, UK)

• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)

• Caspar Van Leeuwen (SURFsara, Netherlands)

Agenda

• overview of recent changes, outlook to next release
• update on 2020a update for common toolchains
• Q&A

Overview of recent changes

• next release ETA: 1st week of March
• v4.1.2 or v4.2.0, not clear yet...
• project for next release: https://github.com/orgs/easybuilders/projects/1
  • helps to keep overview of "important" things that should definitely go in for next releases
  • bug fixes, major enhancements, etc.
• significant recent changes:
  • framework (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/milestone/75?closed=1)
    • significantly speed up -D/--dry-run by avoiding useless 'module show
    • make bootstrap script work with Python 3
    • also update $CMAKE_PREFIX_PATH and $CMAKE_LIBRARY_PATH in generated module file
  • easyblocks (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/milestone/64?closed=1)
    • catch OpenBLAS test failures
    • don't update $LIBRARY_PATH for iccifort installation
      • not required since icc & ifort know how to find their own libraries
    • custom easyblock for installing CMake
    • new software-specific easyblocks: ELSI, BerkeleyyGW
  • easyconfigs (https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/milestone/67?closed=1)
    • don't overwrite configopts in BLAST+ easyconfigs, append to it
    • fixed checksums for various R packages (and again for LaplacesDemon)
    • OpenBLAS 0.3.8 easyconfig + patch to fix issue on Skylake
    • GROMACS 2020 with foss/2019b and fosscuda/2019b
    • new software: units, dtcwt, JupyterLab, SECAPR, MedPy, autopep8, pycodestyle, stpipeline, python-weka-wrapper3, inferCNV, spatialreg, scikit-build, medaka, GenomeTools, gsport, BUStools, SLATEC, ntEdit, ntHits, Groovy, Monocle, rclone, aNCI, Red, scVelo
• TODO:
  • framework
    • Alan's PR for --try-update-deps (#2599)
    • Victor's PR for better integration with Cray PE (#3174)/pull/3174
  • easyblocks
    • custom easyblock for LAMMPS (#1964)
    • update config.guess for building R packages (#1949)
    • custom easyblock for Mesa (to make build arch-aware) (#1892)
  • easyconfigs
    • check for redefined easyconfig parameters in easyconfig tests

2020a common toolchains

Q&A