meeting May 6 2021

Notes for 20210506 meeting

• date & time: Thu May 6th 2021 - 2pm CEST (12:00 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
  • Update on CZI grant "Essential Open Source Software for Science"
  • Progress update per EESSI layer
  • 2021.03 version of pilot repository: status
  • Build nodes experience report
  • Testing with ReFrame
  • Discussion with NVIDIA w.r.t. CUDA
  • AWS/Azure update + infrastructure in AWS
  • Past & upcoming events
  • Q&A

Slides

• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20210506.pdf

Meeting notes

(by Kenneth)

Introduction by new people

• Frank Everdij (TUDelft)
• Martin Errenst (HPC.NRW)

CZI grant rejected

• too much money requested, not enough motivation?
• no chance to get more details on why proposal was not accepted

CernVM-FS bug

• workaround requires that you know what to symlink?

Infrastructure in AWS

• 1GB of RAM on login node is not enough for Terraform, apparently...