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+# SIG/HPC meeting 2023-11-02
+
+## Attendees:
+    * Sherif
+    * Neil Hanlon
+    * Chris S
+    * Jeremy Siadal
+    * Stack
+
+## Discussions:
+Jeremy, gave an overview of kernel-cnode patch status and that he is working on some of the patches
+
+Sherif, Asked about the intel GPU contacts and Jeremy will send the contacts over
+
+Stack, still working on the slurm rest daemon
+
+Chris S, talked about their  benchmark for nvidia drivers
+
+## Action items:
+    * Sherif to work on abit on the wiki
+    * Sherif to add Jeremy and Chris to the git user groups
+
+## Old business:
+
+## 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 -