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Conference call notes 20220720

Kenneth Hoste edited this page Aug 3, 2022 · 5 revisions

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Notes on the 202nd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 20 July 2022 (8:00 UTC)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (7):

  • Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)
  • Alan O'Cais (CECAM)
  • Martin Errenst (?)
  • Thomas Hayward-Schneider (IPP)
  • Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)
  • Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)
  • Lev Lafayette (University of Melbourne, Australia)

Agenda

  • overview of recent developments + outlook to next release
  • Q&A

Recent developments

  • release timeline
    • latest release: EasyBuild v4.6.0 (8 July 2022)
    • ETA next release (EasyBuild v4.?): TBC (September?)
  • recent changes
    • framework
      • bug fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • Add script to find dependencies of Python packages (PR #3839)
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyblocks
      • bug fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • allow some PyTorch tests to fail + print warning if one or more tests fail (PR #2742)
      • updates
        • ...
      • changes
        • ...
      • new software
        • ...
    • easyconfigs
      • ~XXX easyconfig PRs were merged since last conf call
      • bug fixes
        • use build enviroment from EB and add missing dependency on zlib to minimap2 (PR #15859)
        • add missing dependencies and execute tests on Trycycler v0.5.2 (PR #15864)
        • explicitly enable HDF5 from kallisto v0.46.2 onwards (PR #15843)
        • add Autotools build dependency to R 4.2.0 w/ foss 2021b (PR #15822)
      • enhancements
        • add patch for GCCcore 11.3.0 to support using -fuse-ld=mold (PR #15715)
        • Fix BLIS build on PPC #15826
      • (noteworthy) new software
      • noteworthy software updates
        • R v4.2.1 with foss/2022a (PR #15767)
        • PyTorch v1.11.0 w/ Python 3.9.5 w/ CUDA 11.3.1 (PR #15137)
      • changes
        • disable flaky GPU test for TensorFlow 2.6.0 (PR #15824)
  • ...
    • framework
      • reported bugs / bug fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • add support for start_dir easyconfig template (PR #4035)
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyblocks
      • bug reports/fixes
        • fix extension filter for Perl packages (PR #2699)
        • PythonPackage is not compatible with --sanity-check-only (issue #2745)
      • enhancements
        • add support for iterative build of OpenBLAS with 64-bit integers (PR #2753)
      • updates
        • Update LAMMPS easyblock for LAMMPS/29Oct20 (PR #2213)
      • new software
        • ...
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyconfigs

Q&A

  • Slack limits
    • 90 days
  • OpenSource project moving off GitHub
    • both are items to think about
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