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Notes on the 219th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday 29 March 2023 (08:00 UTC)

Attendees

List of attendees (XXX):

  • Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

  • Simon Branford (Univ. of Birmingham, UK)

  • Alex Domingo (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

  • Pedro Fernandez (HPCNow!)

  • Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)

  • Kurt Lust (UAntwerpen, Belgium + LUMI User Support Team)

  • Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium)

  • Sebastien Moretti (SIB, Switzerland)

  • Abhishek Mukherjee (New Jersey Institute of Technology, US)

  • Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)

  • Bart Oldeman (Digital Research Alliance of Canada)

  • Jurij Pečar (EMBL, Germany)

  • Åke Sandgren (Umeå University, Sweden)

  • Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)

  • Lars Viklund (Umeå University, Sweden)

Agenda

  • overview of recent developments
  • Q&A

Recent developments

  • release timeline
    • latest release: EasyBuild v4.7.1 (20 Mar 2023)
    • ETA next release (EasyBuild v4.7.2?): mid April 2023
  • recent changes
    • docs
      • ...
    • framework
      • bug fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • add support for modunloadmsg easyconfig parameter (PR #4223)
        • add default download timeout (PR #4226)
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyblocks
      • bug fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • enhance Python easyblock to create non-versioned symlink for python-config + check for bin/python and bin/python-config in sanity check (PR #2904)
      • updates
        • fix TensorFlow easyblock for new versions of Bazel & TensorFlow (PR #2854)
      • changes
        • ...
      • new software
        • ...
    • easyconfigs
      • ~XXX easyconfig PRs were merged since last conf call
      • bug fixes
        • ...
      • enhancements
        • ...
      • (noteworthy) new software
        • PyTorch-bundle v1.12.1 (PR #17540)
          • maybe "PyTorch-extensions" is a better name?
      • noteworthy software updates
      • changes
        • ...
  • work in progress
    • docs
      • ...
    • framework
      • reported bugs / bug fixes
        • Python packages are being installed to local/lib/python*/dist-packages due to tweaks to sysconfig.py in OS (issue #4128)
        • fix typo in condition guarding installation of GitHub token in CI workflow to run unit tests (PR #4216)
          • to fix tests that require GitHub token are always skipped in CI due to silly typo in GitHub Actions workflow (issue #4214)
          • work-in-progress because using $GITHUB_TOKEN that is provided by default doesn't seem to be working...
        • fix --check-github as gist url now includes username (PR #4231, fixes issue #4230)
      • enhancements
      • changes
        • ...
      • PRs for EasyBuild 5.0
        • remove support for Python 2 and 3.5 (PR #4229)
    • easyblocks
      • bug reports/fixes
        • fix finding of failed tests in output of PyTorch test step (PR #2859)
      • enhancements
        • ...
      • updates
        • update ESMF easyblock for versions >= 8.4, due to changed structure and naming of their Python bindings (PR #2875)
      • new software
        • custom easyblock for RAxML (PR #2180)
        • new generic easyblock for installing Rust crates with cargo (PR#2902)
      • changes
        • ...
    • easyconfigs

Q&A

  • ...
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