Conference call notes 20180711

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Notes on the 105th EasyBuild conference call, Wednesday June 20th 2018 (5pm - 6pm CEST)

Attendees

Alphabetical list of attendees (4):

• Davide Vanzo (Vanderbilt University, US)
• Bart Oldeman (ComputeCanada)
• Mikael Öhman (C3SE, Sweden)
• Fotis Georgatos (SDSC, Switzerland)

Agenda

• Upcoming EasyBuild release (3.6.2)
• Q&A

Upcoming EasyBuild release (3.6.2)

• Planned release by end of the week
• Bart: Everything merged. Running regression tests should be running.

Q&A

• Mikael: Thoughts about PR #6537?
  • Many centers already provide Python at lower toolchain level: why not having it in the official repo?
  • Still possible to do so in 2018b since many codes that depend on Python are not available yet.
  • Bart: We also provide a lower level with Python modules without packages that depend on higher toolchain level libraries.
  • Davide:
    • Totally behind any attempt to push Python down to GCCcore.
    • PR represents a good starting point to reach convergence. Maybe create a Python interest group?
    • Adopt JSC approach for SciPy performance issue with Intel compiler.
    • Will try to keep high attention on the PR by the maintainers.