SIG/HPC Meeting 2024-02-22¶

Attendees¶

NVIDIA GPU driver Testing - Chris
https://github.com/mghpcsim/gpu-testing/tree/master
documented process for configuring instance, installing drivers (open source or proprietary), setting up container runtimes, nvidia container toolkit
- Benchmarks using forked toolkit from Lambda labs with Rocky customizations
initial control benchmark (pytorch):
- closed drivers slightly (4s) faster
Plan: run benchmarks on progressively newer instances and collect results
- Publish results on Wiki
Intel driver - Met with them, went well
Can build this driver into signed kernel modules, add to testing Chris is doing
This will live in SIG/Kernel because it's a kernel module
driver toolkit pieces probably will end up in HPC SIG
Kernel Cnode (for MoS)
Sherif synced with Jeremy
- Lots of progress has been made, almost all patches backported
- there are couple problematic patches--they're based on SLES kernels, but a bit different enough to be problematic
- Pablo will help once the problem is set

Testing - Warewulf, others
Sherif and Brian Phan synced on warewulf testing
Not just installibility, upgrade path, etc
What can we use? Multiple things, probably
- OpenQA? TMT? Zuul? Whatever OpenHPC uses?
- Testing team would also love to get more people involved and participating in building tests
Example tests:
- Provision cluster
- nodes communicate
- etc
Want: have full end to end testing of all components
What tests do we want?
- Functional
- Create cluster
- Create user
- Submit job as user
- Future:
  - Slurm accounting/dbd, others
Package tracking - PoI tracker
Neil is looking how we can integrate this
Wiki Updates - Neil and Sherif will work on this at FOSDEM/CentOS Connect
This didn't really happen specifically, but discussions about ensuring Wikis are up to date did happen