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# 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?)