# EESSI - Azure sync meeting (2022-10-28)

- use of sponsored credits
- see update in https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20221006.pdf
- adding CUDA support
- see https://eessi.github.io/docs/meetings/2022-09-amsterdam/#thu-15-sept-2022
- bot
- https://github.com/EESSI/eessi-bot-software-layer
- data repo
- events
- EESSI community meeting
- https://eessi.github.io/docs/meetings/2022-09-amsterdam
- SC'22
- attending: Davide
- azhop workshop with OpenFOAM demo
- could use EESSI for this?
- Kenneth will check if people in the EESSI community will be attending SC'22
- funding proposals
- MultiXscale EuroHPC
- see https://eessi.github.io/docs/meetings/2022-09-amsterdam/EESSI-community-meeting-2022.09-021-MultiXscale.pdf
- OCRE
- new funding opportunity coming up
- see https://ocre-project.eu/events/opportunities-european-research-infrastructures-commercial-cloud-services-under-eosc-%E2%80%93-call
- SURF needs to look into single-provider limitation
- deadline mid Dec'22
- follow-up meeting on this Fri 4 Nov by SURF & EESSI

- actions
- follow-up on OCRE
- Slurm cluster in Azure (with azhop, Magic Castle, CitC, CycleCloud)
- azhop comes with Open OnDemand
- minimal setup
- SSH access
- Slurm: login + workernodes
- shared filesystem (NFS, ...)
- could be multi-purpose
- backend for build-and-deploy bot
- testing (single-node + multi-node via Infiniband)
- give people access for demos
- some more noise on EESSI/MultiXscale early 2023?

- next call
- Fri 9 Dec 2022 - 14:00 UTC