# SIG/HPC meeting 2023-08-24

## Attendees:
    * Jeremy Siadal
    * Sherif
    * David DeBonis
    * Neil Hanlon


## Discussions:
Sherif, give a recap of what's action missing / pending from last week

Sherif, Needs to look at the scripts from the_real_swa

Jeremy, asked about if the SIG will be upstream for openELA or not

Sherif, at the moment RESF has their own tooling to obtain sources, however it will be a vote for Rocky Linux board and RESF board if we will be downstream of OpenELA


## Action items:
    * Sherif: To push the testing repo file to release package
    * Sherif: testing / merging the_real_swa scripts

## Old business:

## 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 -