Conference call notes 20180606

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Notes on the 103rd EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday June 6th 2018 (5pm - 6pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

Agenda

• 2018b common toolchains
• Python in GCCcore
• Q&A

2018b common toolchains

• jump to GCC 7.3.0 as base for both foss/2018b and intel/2018b

  • Kenneth got feedback from Intel support that this should be OK for Intel compilers 2018 update 3 (even though it'll only be officially supported in 2019 version of Intel compilers)

• foss/2018b proposal

  • GCC 7.3 (Jan 25th 2018) + binutils 2.30 (Jan 28th 2018)
  • OpenMPI 3.1.0 (May 7th 2018)
  • OpenBLAS 0.3.0 (May 23rd 2018) + ScaLAPACK 2.0.2 (May 1st 2012)
  • FFTW 3.3.8 (May 28th 2018)
  • cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6424

• intel/2018b proposal

  • GCC 7.3 + binutils 2.30 as a base
  • icc + ifort 2018 update 3 (a.k.a. 2018.3.222) (May 29th 2018)
  • impi 2018 update 3 (a.k.a. 2018.3.222) (May 29th 2018)
  • imkl 2018 update 3 (a.k.a. 2018.3.222) (May 29th 2018)
  • cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/6409

• include GCCcore/6.4.0 as build dependency for GCCcore/7.3.0 to fix installation on CentOS 6?

  • cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/6374

Python in GCCcore

• cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/pull/5072 + https://lists.ugent.be/wws/arc/easybuild/2018-04/msg00045.html

Q&A