wiki/docs/events/meeting-notes/2023-11-15.md

# SIG/HPC meeting 2023-11-15

## Attendees:
    * Sherif Nagy
    * Neil Hanlon
    * Chris McGuire
    * Jeremy Siadal - Intel
    * Filip Hans Polbratt - NSC
    * Dr. Chris Simmons - MGHPCC

## Discussions:

* Jeremy - Intel group quite interested in integrating with Rocky
    * Likely internal team will provide drivers, but Jeremy will handle the spec file

* Kernel cnode - repo is created and should be ready
    * Should be based off Rocky's base kernel, not upstream ML/LTS
    * MOS - Multi Operating System
        * LWK - Lightweight Kernel Project
    * Will need to patch into the scheduler
    * also will strip out everything that's not needed
    * what could be put directly in the kernel instead of modules - could also eliminate initrd if needed
    * Secureboot?
        * This should be OK to do, but we need to make sure it's still compliant with shim
        * we are now separating the SB certs by SIG, so we will need to request certs from Security
    * MOS - some patches in the scheduler are not applying cleanly due to changes in scheduler code
        * CIQ might be able to help investigate the 6 patches
* Intel GPU Driver  - Neil didn't catch this
* Warewulf
    * Spec files exist in the github for warewulf
    * Sherif to investigate
* Testing
    * Currently - Testing team handles this manually at this time
    * Jeremy would like to have our own test harness
    * Suggest TMT for maximum cross polination - Testing team should be working on that
    * Neil can work to provide infrastructure for testing
        * Must be at least 1 hardware system (x86) with at least two GPUs (Intel)
        * Need x86 AND arm for Nvidia - A30, etc - 4x cards
        * need infiniband (and SR/IOV support, and cross talk)
    * Links
        * https://tmt.readthedocs.io/en/latest/spec.html 
        * https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/ci/tmt/
* Cloud RDMA - GCP
    * Send this to Kernel SIG :)

## Action items:

* Sherif to finish/complete work on the wiki
* Sherif to add Jeremy and Chris to gitusers and sig_hpc
    * Neil added ohpcsim and jcsiadal to gitusers. Sherif will add to gitusers
* Decide what is being put into cnode kernel, what is being removed - Jeremy
* Request SB Certs for HPC cnode kernel from Security
* Compare spec files for Warewulf vs OpenHPC - Sherif
* Investigate what resources are required for testing - Neil

## Old business:

## 2023-11-02
    * Sherif to work on abit on the wiki - Not done
    * Sherif to add Jeremy and Chris to the git user groups

## 2023-10-19:
    * Sherif to create kernel repo for kernel HPC, kernel-hpc-node, called now kernel-cnode - Done -
    * Jeermy, to get the ball rolling with intel GPU driver
    * Stack, Fix the slurm rest daemon and integrated it with openQA

## 2023-10-05:
    * None for this meeting, however we should be working on old business action items

## 2023-09-21:
    * Sherif: Get the SIG for drivers
    * Sherif: Check the names of nvidia drivers "open , dkms and closed source"
    * Chris: Bench mark nvidia open vs closed source

## 2023-09-07:
    * Sherif: Reaching out to AI SIG to check on hosting nvida that drivers that CIQ would like to contribute - Done and waiting to hear from them -

## 2023-08-24:
    * Sherif: To push the testing repo file to release package
    * Sherif: testing / merging the_real_swa scripts

## 2023-08-10:
    * Sherif: Looking into the openQA testing - Pending

## 2023-07-27:
    * Sherif: Reach out to jose-d about pmix - Done, no feedback yet -
    * Greg: to reach out to openPBS and cloud charly
    * Sherif: To update slurm23 to latest - Done -

## 2023-07-13:
    * Sherif needs to update the wiki - Done
    * Sherif to look into MPI stack
    * Chris will send Sherif a link with intro

## 2023-06-29:
    * Sherif release slurm23 sources - Done
    * Stack and Sherif working on the HPC list
    * Sherif email Jeremy, the slurm23 source URL - Done

## 2023-06-15:
    * Sherif to look int openHPC slurm spec file - Pending on Sherif
    * We need to get lists of centres and HPC that are moving to Rocky to make a blog post and PR

## 2023-06-01:
    * Get a list of packages from Jeremy to pick up from openHPC - Done
    * Greg / Sherif talk in Rocky / RESF about generic SIG for common packages such as chaintools
    * Plan the openHPC demo Chris / Sherif - Done
    * Finlise the slurm package with naming / configuration - Done

## 2023-05-18:
    * Get a demo / technical talk after 4 weeks "Sherif can arrange that with Chris" - Done
    * Getting a list of packages that openHPC would like to move to distros "Jeremy will be point of contact if we need those in couple of weeks" - Done

## 2023-05-04
    * Start building slurm - On going, a bit slowing down with R9.2 and R8.8 releases, however packages are built, some minor configurations needs to be fixed -
    * Start building apptainer - on hold -
    * Start building singulartiry - on hold -
    * Start building warewulf - on hold -
    * Sherif: check about forums - done, we can have our own section if we want, can be discussed over the chat -

## 2023-04-20
    * Reach out to other communities “Greg” - on going -
    * Reaching out for different sites that uses Rocky for HPC “Stack will ping few of them and others as well -Group effort-”
    * Reaching out to hardware vendors - nothing done yet -
    * Statistic / public registry for sites / HPC to add themselves if they want - nothing done yet -