# 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?)