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