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title: EESSI - Azure sync meeting (2022-10-28)

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# 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