Adding meeting notes for 27/7/2023

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+# SIG/HPC meeting 2023-07-27
+
+## Attendees:
+    * Sherif
+    * Jeremy Siadal
+    * Stack
+    * Scott Groel
+    * Gregory Kurtzer
+
+
+## Discussions:
+Chris, talked about the slurm system unit bug in upstream
+
+Sherif, asked about the openQA status
+
+Stack, they are working on that and still improving it
+
+Sherif, asked about the PMIX support and how to do it
+
+Jeremy, it is a bit more complex than what it seems but worth doing
+
+David, what is the added value from moving the PMIX to newer version
+
+Jeremy, we need to look at the user base and see if this is needed
+
+Stack, asks about PMIX and what it is
+
+David, the extension for pmix is more needed when you implement on scale and performance is an issue within slurm
+
+Greg, we can have pmix into the SIG, that's not a bad idea
+
+Jeremy, we will also need runtime aspects of it
+
+David, yes we will need both
+
+Jeremy, mentioned a package they would like to have into SIG/HPC they will send it to us
+
+Greg, will reach out to openPBS and cloud charly
+
+## Action items:
+    * Sherif: Reach out to jose-d about pmix - Done, no feedback yet -
+    * Greg: to reach out to openPBS and clout charly
+    * Sherif: To update slurm32 to latest
+
+## Old business:
+
+## 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 -