# EESSI/Azure sync meeting 2024-04-15

## Attendees

- Laura (MS)
- Wolfgang De Salvador (MS)
- Davide Vanzo (MS)
- Marco Netto (MS)
- Ivar Janmaat (SURF)
- Martin Brandt (SURF)
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, EESSI)

## Notes

* Slurm cluster in Azure (created with Magic Castle)
* mainly to build software for AMD Genoa
* custom node image now in place for `x86_64` nodes
* must be done *outside* of a gallery, or Terraform could not find the image
* still TODO for `aarch64` nodes (less urgent for now)
* can't seem to create image outside of a gallery, unclear why...
* up and running now, but still some teething problems
* installation of GCC from source fails due to memory limit?!
* update on current status of budget for EESSI
* ~15k Euro spent in April 2023-2024
* ISC'24
* theatre session / demos at Azure booth
* booth is partially funded by AMD
* mention AMD GPU support in EESSI roadmap (via MultiXscale)
* demo slots are several hours (full morning/afternoon)
* attendance from EESSI: Kenneth + Lara + Eli & co (HPCNow!)
* EESSI BoF session on Tue morning
* EESSI talks at 3 workshops (Thursday)
* demos via SURF Research Cloud? => via Martin

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## Notes of previous meetings

* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-03-11
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-01-15
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-01-15
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-12-18
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-09-18
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-08-21
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-06-19
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-05-15
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-04-17
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-02-17
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-01-20
* https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-Dec-9-2022