Conference call notes 20190306

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Notes on the 120th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday Mar 6th 2019 (17:00 - 18:00 CET)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (XXX):

• Fotis Georgatos (SDSC, Switzerland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)
• Mikael Öhman (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden)
• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
• Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, US)

Agenda

• update on next EasyBuild release
• update on porting of EasyBuild to Python 3
• update Python @ GCCcore
• Q&A

Update on next EasyBuild release

• ETA:
• framework
  • cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/milestone/65?closed=1
  • ...
  • TODO:
    • iterative build deps: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2741
    • Alan's PR: https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-framework/pull/2599
• easyblocks
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyblocks/milestone/56
• easyconfigs
  • https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/milestone/59
  • ...

Update on porting of EasyBuild to Python 3

• ...

Update on Python @ GCCcore

• cfr. https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild-easyconfigs/issues/7463
• benchmarking
  • tested modules:
    • (1) Python/2.7.15-intel-2019a
    • (2) SciPy/2019a-intel-2019a-Python-2.7.15
  • Intel Skylake (idle nodes, Intel Xeon Gold)

|                              | (1)      | (2) | (3) | (4) | |------------------------------|----------|-----|-----|-----|
| 5k x 5x numpy.dot            | 211.33ms |     |     |     |
| numpy.sin                    | 8.73s    |     |     |     |
| numpy.cos                    | 8.73s    |     |     |     |
| numpy.tan                    | 48.62s   |     |     |     |
| numpy.exp                    | 165.33ms |     |     |     |
| fft.py (7k)                  | 2.78s    |     |     |     |
| ibench fft (large)           | 26.17s   |     |     |     |
| ibench blacksch (large)      | 21.14s   |     |     |     |
| ibench sklearn  (large)      |          |     |     |     |

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