Conference call notes 20220105

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Notes on the 188th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 5 Jan 2022 (09:00 UTC)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

• Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)

• Bob Dröge (Univ. of Groningen, Netherlands)

• Fotis Georgatos (EPFL, Switzerland)

• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

• Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)

• Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

• Alexandre Strube (Jülich Supercomputer Centre, Germany)

Agenda

• overview of recent developments
• Q&A

Recent developments

• release timeline
  • latest release: EasyBuild v4.5.1 (Dec 13th 2021)
  • ETA next release: mid Jan'21 ?
• recent changes
  • framework
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • allow oversubscription in sanity check for OpenMPI-based toolchains (PR #3909)
      • automatically prepend env-for-shebang value with sysroot (PR #3919)
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyblocks
    • bug fixes
      • set wm_* class variables in OpenFOAM easyblock constructor (to fix --sanity-check-only) (PR #2616)
      • fix patching of CMakeLists.txt in for Eigen v3.4 (PR #2633)
      • skip netcdf4-python tests that require network connectivity (PR #2634)
      • fix shebang of scripts in Perl installation if installation prefix is too long (PR #2640)
      • enhance IntelBase easyblock to avoid crash when $USER is not set (PR #2642)
    • enhancements
      • update AOCC easyblock to support version 3.2.0 (PR #2643)
      • remove necessity for license for oneAPI versions (>= 2021.x) in itac easyblock (PR #2492)
      • add option to control MKL-DNN in jaxlib (PR #2619)
      • add CUDA support in SuiteSparse easyblock (PR #2627)
      • add option to not copy the license file for Gurobi (PR #2639 + PR #2641)
      • use all available cores for running Perl test suite (PR #2637)
      • don't grep for specific version in --version output of Intel compiler commands for versions 2022.x (PR #2644)
    • changes
      • allow oversubscription in OpenMPI sanity check (PR #2611)
    • new software
      • add custom easyblock for Clang-AOMP (PR #2617)
  • easyconfigs
    • over 100 easyconfig PRs merged since last conf call!
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • (noteworthy) new software
      • see also overview at https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues?q=is%3Amerged+label%3Anew
      • ...
    • noteworthy software updates
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
• to merge/fix/tackle soon
  • framework
    • reported bugs / bug fixes
      • change copy_file to ignore failing copy of file metadata by using shutil.copyfile + shutil.copystat rather than shutil.copy2 (PR #3912)
        • motivated by problems that occur when copying files from filesystem with extra attributes (like CernVM-FS), see issue #3910
    • enhancements
      • extend framework to enable modules to ship RPATH wrappers (issue #3918)
    • changes
      • deprecate use of patch files that don't have a filename ending with .patch (PR #3920)
  • easyblocks
    • bug fixes
      • ...
    • enhancements
      • ...
    • changes
      • ...
  • easyconfigs
    • bug fixes
      • pass tests on A* GPUs by setting 'NVIDIA_TF32_OVERRIDE=0' in jax 0.2.19 (PR #14502)
      • don't add bin subdir to $PATH in ReFrame easyconfigs (PR #14415)
    • new software
      • see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/labels/new
      • HIP (PR #14339)
      • ROCm (PR #14355
    • noteworthy software updates
      • AlphaFold v2.1.1 with foss/2021a (PR #14500)
    • changes
      • consolidate easyconfigs for grace/Grace (PR #14493)

Q&A

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