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SIG/HPC meeting 2023-09-21

Attendees:

* Jeremy Siadal
* Sherif
* Nick Eggleston
* Jeremy Siadal
* Chris S.
* Scott Groel

Discussions:

Jeremy, We need spin off a special SIG for drivers

Chris, Do we have a benchmark between the nvidia open source vs close source, also we might need to build two versions one of HPC sig and one for drivers sig

Scott, is there any plans to supports xcat?

Action items:

* Sherif: Get the SIG for drivers
* Sherif: Check the names of nvidia drivers "open , dkms and closed source"
* Chris: Bench mark nvidia open vs closed source

Old business:

2023-09-07:

* Sherif: Reaching out to AI SIG to check on hosting nvida that drivers that CIQ would like to contribute - Done and waiting to hear from them -

2023-08-24:

* Sherif: To push the testing repo file to release package
* Sherif: testing / merging the_real_swa scripts

2023-08-10:

* Sherif: Looking into the openQA testing - Pending

2023-07-27:

* Sherif: Reach out to jose-d about pmix - Done, no feedback yet -
* Greg: to reach out to openPBS and cloud charly
* Sherif: To update slurm23 to latest - Done -

2023-07-13:

* Sherif needs to update the wiki - Done
* Sherif to look into MPI stack
* Chris will send Sherif a link with intro

2023-06-29:

* Sherif release slurm23 sources - Done
* Stack and Sherif working on the HPC list
* Sherif email Jeremy, the slurm23 source URL - Done

2023-06-15:

* Sherif to look int openHPC slurm spec file - Pending on Sherif
* We need to get lists of centres and HPC that are moving to Rocky to make a blog post and PR

2023-06-01:

* Get a list of packages from Jeremy to pick up from openHPC - Done
* Greg / Sherif talk in Rocky / RESF about generic SIG for common packages such as chaintools
* Plan the openHPC demo Chris / Sherif - Done
* Finlise the slurm package with naming / configuration - Done

2023-05-18:

* Get a demo / technical talk after 4 weeks "Sherif can arrange that with Chris" - Done
* Getting a list of packages that openHPC would like to move to distros "Jeremy will be point of contact if we need those in couple of weeks" - Done

2023-05-04

* Start building slurm - On going, a bit slowing down with R9.2 and R8.8 releases, however packages are built, some minor configurations needs to be fixed -
* Start building apptainer - on hold -
* Start building singulartiry - on hold -
* Start building warewulf - on hold -
* Sherif: check about forums - done, we can have our own section if we want, can be discussed over the chat -

2023-04-20

* Reach out to other communities “Greg” - on going -
* Reaching out for different sites that uses Rocky for HPC “Stack will ping few of them and others as well -Group effort-”
* Reaching out to hardware vendors - nothing done yet -
* Statistic / public registry for sites / HPC to add themselves if they want - nothing done yet -