# EESSI support sync meeting (2025-12-02)

*(prepared by Helena)*

Focus of this meeting:
- **re-evaluate assignment of open support requests and pull requests**
- specific support-related tasks worth discussing

Attending: Bob, Lara, Kenneth, Helena, Arturo, Loris, Nahuel, Raúl, Loris, Davide, Caspar, Richard, Thomas

## Support rotation (status)

*([link to support rotation](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/wikis/Support-rotation))*

- Do IT Now is in rotation, handover to UGent on Dec 9.
- review [support rotation schedule](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/wikis/Proposal-support-rotation) for 2026
- rotation should be set in stone for next 12 weeks (one rotation per partner)
- Will be set in stone soon!

## Support requests

### Recently closed (last 2 weeks)

- [#212](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/issues/212) The Lmod cache for 2025.06 is created with a very new Lmod.
- Solved with https://github.com/EESSI/filesystem-layer/pull/260
- Now closed

### Open (active)

- [#162](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/issues/162) ARM NEON and CUDA in the same build results in build errors for SIMD
- Refloated by Kenneth
- Should be re-checked, volunteers?

- [#210](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/issues/210) Decide on Nvidia GPU support for 2025.06
- Assigned to: Caspar
- status: Open
- no news

- [#26](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/issues/26) Software licenses tracking
- Good to merge: https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1149 + https://github.com/hvelab/software-layer/pull/2 (after checking patch format)
- Talked with Kurt from LUMI and they do it fully manually
- Top level structure

### Open (no updates)

### New tasks

- [#213](https://gitlab.com/eessi/support/-/issues/213) Auto-load buildenv when loading a compiler module (like GCC)
- Nice-to-have UX improvement
- status: Assigned to Helena

## Bot updates

- No updates (that I can see)

- Make a shared calendar for key expiration days etc? -> Kenneth should do it
- Monitor these expiration dates with Github CI or with Prometheus on the Stratum 0 -> Bob implemented it and set up alarms in Slack
- https://github.com/EESSI/bot-sign-keys/issues/17 has an overview of all the keys and their expiration dates (+ people assigned to the task to renew them)

## EESSI/software-layer

### Open PRs (active)

- Actively building out the 2025.06 software stack. Any pr people want to discuss?

- [#1287](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1287) {2025.06}[SYSTEM] cuDNN 9.10.1.4 for CC80/100/120 *draft*
- Complex situation
- Make EB aware that this exist and handle them somehow
- Sanity checks discussion on what to do when it detects these
- If someone finds it urgent, please take it, or postpone until the submission on EESSIER
- Make it without EB -> with the Sanity Checks?
- Agreed on how to do it for CC100 & CC120, try to rebuild and if sanity check passes
- Could dev.eessi.io be of use? or take too much to set up?

- [#1314](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1314) PyTorch 2.6.0
- Now tests fail
- Looks like compatibility issue with newer glibc
- Flamefire did some new suggestions

- [#1317](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1317) QIIME2 2024.2.0
- Maybe you could also add SIMDE as a build dependency
- I can take over / Mostly like Lara and Kenneth

- [#1318](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1318) LLVM 20.1.7
- Changes to the EasyBlock changes the hooks and how dependencies are resolved
- Davide is waiting for input in https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1257#issuecomment-3581362664
- Davide thinks the first one should cause more trouble

- [#1322](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/1322) SimpleITK 2.3.1
- Fails because it's picking Lua from compat layer and not the one specified as dependency
- Solvable by a hook?

### Open issues

- [#1323](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/issues/1323) CI check for missing installations may ignore the easystacks actually modified in the PR #1323
- we could test from Do IT Now

### Open PRs (no updates)

## EESSI/software-layer-scripts

- [#122](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer-scripts/pull/122) Add microarchitecture detection for RISC-V clusters at HCA
- Updated by Julian last week; ready for review again?
- [#135](https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer-scripts/pull/135) take software layer version suffix into account when creating a tarball
- By Bob
- Ready to review, 2 line change

## Documentation

- open issues
- [#629](https://github.com/EESSI/docs/issues/629) update software overview to consume data from EESSI API
- Assume this is a WIP?
- Not from MxS resources, working in EFP

- open PRs
- [#628](https://github.com/EESSI/docs/pull/628) change on governance
- ready to merge? -> approve by the rest of the SC

## EESSI/compat-layer

### Open PRs (active)

## AOB

- Thomas is looking into check runs
- https://github.com/EESSI/software-layer/pull/973/checks?check_run_id=56284227880
- Doesn't need full write permissions

- FOSDEM
- 5 talks submitted!
- Bioinformatics devroom -> Thomas
- Software Performance devroom -> Kenneth
- Testing & CD devroom #1 -> Sam
- HPC devroom -> Helena
- Package Management devroom -> Loris
- Testing & CD devroom #2 -> Lara

## Next meeting: sync meeting

- 9 December 2025
- Attending: Bob, Lara, Kenneth, Helena, Arturo, Loris, Nahuel, Raúl, Loris, Davide, Caspar, Richard