meeting Feb 3 2022

Notes for 2022-02-03 meeting

• date & time: Thu 3 Feb 2022 - 14:00 CET (13:00 UTC)
  • (every first Thursday of the month)
• venue: (online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)
• agenda:
  • Quick introduction by new people
  • EESSI-related meetings in last month
  • WRF on Azure with EESSI
  • EESSI hackathon report
  • Progress update per EESSI layer
  • 2021.12 version of pilot repository
  • AWS/Azure sponsorship update
  • Update on EESSI paper
  • Upcoming events
  • Q&A

Slides

• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20220203.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth)

Quick introduction by new people

• Tru Huynh (France)

EESSI-related meetings in last month

• submit talk for CernVM workshop (Sept'22 in Amsterdam)?
  • study of impact of using software provided through CVMFS for large MPI jobs?
  • maybe in collaboration with Azure? (cfr. work on WRF by Hugo)

CernVM-FS coordination meeting

(see slides)

WRF on Azure with EESSI

• EESSI is being integrated with Azure HPC OnDemand Platform

  • see https://github.com/Azure/az-hop/pull/722

• archspec misdetects AMD Milan (zen3) due to missing pku CPU feature

  • cfr. https://github.com/archspec/archspec-json/issues/38

EESSI hackathon (Jan'22)

(see slides)

• should we plan another hackathon? (when?)

Progress update per EESSI layer

Filesystem layer

(see slides)

• would be really nice to finally get that fuse-overlayfs problem fixed
  • we can/should try with the container image that includes updated fuse-overlayfs, where at least some of the problems were fixed
  • seems like the problem could be specific

Compatibility layer

(see slides)

Software layer

(see slides)

2021.12 version of pilot repository

(see slides)

Infrastructure

• could also look into https://www.runatlantis.io to apply changes in Terraform based on PRs

  • Alan: other alternative is Terraform Cloud

• could also

AWS/Azure sponsorship update

(see slides)

Next EESSI hackathon (Jan'22)

(see slides)

Upcoming events

• EasyBuild User Meeting: https://easybuild.io/eum22

Q&A

• Thomas: predictions for EESSI in 2022?
  • short term: fixing Lmod cache issue
  • development of GitHub app
  • finding funding for dedicated manpower (maybe (also) via Azure/AWS?)