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SIG/HPC meeting 2023-12-14

Attendees:

* Sherif Nagy
* Neil Hanlon
* Matt Bidwell
* Rich Adams
* Chris Simmons
* Jeremy Siadal

Follow ups

  • No movement on wiki yet, maybe over break
  • Cnode Kernel - no movement
  • Compare spec files for Warewulf vs OpenHPC - Done!
    • Thank you Sherif
    • Building warewulf4 for rocky 8 and rocky 9
      • Can we keep this name w/ openhpc?
      • Chris - next release will also rename warewulf to warewulf3 to distinguish
  • Request SB Certs for HPC cnode kernel from Security - Requested
    • Requested - No update
  • Investigate what resources are required for testing - Neil
    • Not done yet
  • Create POC script to create tickets when new slurm is available - Neil
    • No movement
  • Sherif waiting to hear from Jeremy about Intel GPU drivers
    • Should have heard from them. Jeremy will follow up with them to see what happened

Discussions

  • last meeting of 2023; skip Dec 28th. next meeting will be Jan 11 -- needs announcing
    • Happy holidays!
  • slurm naming - slurm22 / slurm23 / slurm24
    • slurm24 is coming out soon
    • plan to support whatever schedmd is supporting -- two most recent releases
  • Testing resources for SIG/HPC
    • NVidia V100s - OK?
      • Cannot test MIG (multi-instance GPU) with that device
      • Sherif can take some of these after they decomm their current HPC, but not sure on timeframe
    • Need a place to host these, maybe RESF can do something
      • Neil is tracking this, to have better update in January
  • chris is working on testing for different schedulers
  • Warewulf -- OpenHPC needs to make naming more consistent
    • will remove warewulf4 from builds once it's in Rocky and other openhpc distros
    • Rocky not worrying about v3, openhpc will continue providing that
  • Slurm / pmix support
    • on for rocky 9 branch
    • there is a pmix5, but ... it's broken. Chris is looking at this over holiday break
    • rocky only has pmix 3.2, so if we need new features we may need to build and release in the SIG
    • newer versions (4) are backwards compatible, or, are supposed to be

Action items

  • Sherif to finish/complete work on the wiki
  • Decide what is being put into cnode kernel, what is being removed - Jeremy
  • Request SB Certs for HPC cnode kernel from Security - Requested
    • Requested
  • Create POC script to create tickets when new slurm is available - Neil
  • Change warewulf -> warewulf3 in next openhpc release - Chris
  • Announce meeting cancelations for December - Neil/Sherif
  • Look into building pmix4 for rocky and building slurm23.11 w/ pmix support - Sherif
  • Follow up with Intel Driver team - Jeremy

Old business

2023-11-30

  • Sherif to finish/complete work on the wiki
    • Not done
  • Decide what is being put into cnode kernel, what is being removed - Jeremy
    • No updates
  • Request SB Certs for HPC cnode kernel from Security - Requested
    • Requested
  • Compare spec files for Warewulf vs OpenHPC - Sherif
    • Not done yet
  • Investigate what resources are required for testing - Neil
    • Not done yet
  • Create POC script to create tickets when new slurm is available - Neil

2023-11-15

  • Sherif to finish/complete work on the wiki
    • Not done
  • Sherif to add Jeremy and Chris to gitusers and sig_hpc - Done
  • Decide what is being put into cnode kernel, what is being removed - Jeremy
    • No updates
  • Request SB Certs for HPC cnode kernel from Security - Requested
    • Requested
  • Compare spec files for Warewulf vs OpenHPC - Sherif
    • Not done yet
  • Investigate what resources are required for testing - Neil
    • Not done yet

2023-11-02

* Sherif to work on abit on the wiki - Not done
* Sherif to add Jeremy and Chris to the git user groups

2023-10-19:

* Sherif to create kernel repo for kernel HPC, kernel-hpc-node, called now kernel-cnode - Done -
* Jeermy, to get the ball rolling with intel GPU driver
* Stack, Fix the slurm rest daemon and integrated it with openQA

2023-10-05:

* None for this meeting, however we should be working on old business action items

2023-09-21:

* 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

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 -