Conference call notes 20200624

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Notes on the 150th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday June 24th 2020 (13:00 UTC - 15:00 CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany)

• Simon Branford (University of Birmingham, UK)

• Victor Holanda Rusu (CSCS, Switzerland)

Agenda

• recent developments (merged PRs)
• quick evaluation of yesterday's online EasyBuild tutorial
• Q&A

Recent developments

• ETA for next release (probably EasyBuild v4.2.2): early July
• project to track issues/PRs that should be tackled for this release: https://github.com/orgs/easybuilders/projects/6
  • to maintainers: please add important issues/PRs into this project (bug fixes, specific enhancements/updates)
• recent changes
  • framework
    • support for using sources (incl. git_config) for extensions (PR #3294) + accompanying docs update (PR #617)
  • easyblocks
    • fixed bug in PythonBundle: module that is loaded before installing extensions was not updating $PYTHONPATH anymore (PR #2081)
    • introduced in PR #2075, so was only present in develop branch (not a problem in EasyBuild v4.2.1 or earlier releases)
  • easyconfigs
    • (nothing special, lots of software updates, some minor fixes)
• PRs/issues of interest (hopefully to be merged soon)
  • framework
    • also take into account builddependencies for template values like %(pyver)s (PR #3346)
    • fixes for --try-update-deps (PRs #3353, #3350)
    • hang triggered by easyconfigs index? (issue #3360)
    • fixed order for $LD_LIBRARY_PATH update (PR #3367)
  • easyblocks
    • fix for OpenCV to support non-Intel builds (PR #2056)
    • fix issues with latest Qt5 (issue #2076)
  • easyconfigs
    • avoid excessive parallelism during PyTorch installation (PR #10772)
    • FEniCS with foss/2019b (PR #10719)
    • CP2K 7.1 (PR #10714)
• we should also clean up the 2020a branch, and get it completely collapsed into develop
  • something for MotW to look into?
  • see also issue #10753

EasyBuild tutorial: quick evaluation

OpenMPI/UCX/PMIx presentation

• see https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/EasyBuild-tech-talks-I:-Open-MPI
• part 1 TODAY: Wed June 24th 2020 at 5pm CEST
• part 2 on Wed July 8th 2020 at 5pm CEST

Q&A