# SIG/HPC Meeting 2024-02-22

## Attendees 

* Sherif Nagy
* Neil Hanlon
* Alan Marshall
* Brian Peters
* Chris Simmons
* Brian Phan
* Forrest Burt

## Follow Ups 

* 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

## Discussions

* 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

### Open Floor

* N/A

### Action Items

* Sherif to build and release intel driver
* Sherif and Brian to work on defining tests that we want to run
* Neil to work on package update notifications