# Notes for 2022-02-03 meeting * date & time: Thu 3 Feb 2022 - 14:00 CET (13:00 UTC) * (every first Thursday of the month) * venue: *(online, see mail for meeting link, or ask in Slack)* * agenda: - Quick introduction by new people - EESSI-related meetings in last month - WRF on Azure with EESSI - EESSI hackathon report - Progress update per EESSI layer - 2021.12 version of pilot repository - AWS/Azure sponsorship update - Update on EESSI paper - Upcoming events - Q&A ### Slides * coming soon ### Meeting notes *(by Kenneth)* #### Quick introduction by new people * Tru Huynh (France) #### EESSI-related meetings in last month - submit talk for CernVM workshop (Sept'22 in Amsterdam)? - study of impact of using software provided through CVMFS for large MPI jobs? - maybe in collaboration with Azure? (cfr. work on WRF by Hugo) ##### CernVM-FS coordination meeting *(see slides)* #### WRF on Azure with EESSI - EESSI is being integrated with Azure HPC OnDemand Platform - see https://github.com/Azure/az-hop/pull/722 - archspec misdetects AMD Milan (zen3) due to missing pku CPU feature - cfr. https://github.com/archspec/archspec-json/issues/38 #### EESSI hackathon (Jan'22) *(see slides)* * should we plan another hackathon? (when?) #### Progress update per EESSI layer ##### Filesystem layer *(see slides)* * would be really nice to finally get that fuse-overlayfs problem fixed * we can/should try with the container image that includes updated fuse-overlayfs, where at least *some* of the problems were fixed * seems like the problem could be specific ##### Compatibility layer *(see slides)* ##### Software layer *(see slides)* ##### 2021.12 version of pilot repository *(see slides)* ##### Infrastructure - could also look into https://www.runatlantis.io to apply changes in Terraform based on PRs - Alan: other alternative is Terraform Cloud - could also #### AWS/Azure sponsorship update *(see slides)* #### Next EESSI hackathon (Jan'22) *(see slides)* #### Upcoming events - EasyBuild User Meeting: https://easybuild.io/eum22 #### Q&A - Thomas: predictions for EESSI in 2022? - short term: fixing Lmod cache issue - development of GitHub app - finding funding for dedicated manpower (maybe (also) via Azure/AWS?)