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+# SIG/HPC meeting 2023-05-04
+
+## Attendees:
+
+    * Neil Hanlon
+    * Matt Bidwell
+    * Stack
+    * Sherif
+    * Nick Eggleston
+    * Gregory Kurtzer
+    * Forrest Burt
+
+## Package lists
+    * Slurm - Epel
+    * Apptainer - Epel
+    * Luster - luster.org , no server for el9 
+    * Warewulf - HPCNG github only el8
+    * Easybuild 
+    * OpenHPC
+    * Spack
+    * openmpi *with slurm support*
+    * glusterfs-server gluster-selinux
+    * NIS, ypserv , ypbind, yptools nss_nis
+    * fail2ban
+    * Lmod
+    * conda
+    * sstack
+
+## Discussions:
+
+Greg: suggesting to have our own slurm, apptainer, singulatory, Warewulf
+Greg: We can reach to DDN about anything related to Luster
+Sherif: Suggesting to start building packages
+Nick: To build the community we need to start looking into documentation and forums
+Stack: we need to be careful and have strong justification for rebuilding stuff that exists in Epel
+Greg: asked how HPC centre prefer to manage / or already managing their slurm setup
+Few members mentioned one of the following two methods:
+    * Keep upgrading on minor version of slurm
+    * Keep upgrading on minor version of slurm then a major upgrade in a scheduled maintains window
+
+Greg and Nick: adding major-minor version in package name something like python2/3
+Sherif: Asking about Testing methodology with testing team
+Stack: They hope at some point they are able to test all sigs and working on getting OpenQA build for this
+
+## Action items:
+
+    * Start building slurm
+    * Start building apptainer
+    * Start building singulartiry
+    * Start building warewulf
+    * Greg reach out for OpenHPC - done
+    * Sherif: check about fourms
+