Hello Drew, It is a very good idea!
Though I would separate this task from QA-work on Debian Science packages. If you want, we could apply one-more project (something like HPC-testing of MPI-based science packages) and point special requirements for possible applicants. Feel free to propose a text for that. Thanks again! Regards Anton Am Di., 22. Feb. 2022 um 12:52 Uhr schrieb Drew Parsons <dpars...@debian.org>: > > On 2022-02-21 17:42, Anton Gladky wrote: > > Dear all, > > > > Google Summer of Code call for Debian is announced [1]. > > I am going to apply Debian Science Team as one of the projects. > > > > Main topic is QA-Work: Autopkgtests for high-popcon packages, > > gitlab-CI for most of packages, bringing not-in-testing packages > > into the proper shape to let them migrate to testing. > > > > If somebody wants to be a co-mentor or if you have better ideas > > for the project, please let me know. > > > > [1] > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2022/02/msg00002.html > > > It would be helpful to run parallel/HPC performance testing for our MPI > numerical packages. > > This would be a type of CI testing that we would set up to run regularly > and report. > Lucas Nussbaum is in charge of an academic supercomputing cluster that > we can access to run such tests. > > Some packages have benchmarks already at hand. The FEniCS project for > instance offers fenicsx-performance-tests (both prebuilt and source). > > The project would determined how to set up MPI CI testing (how to > activate it on Lucas' system), and what parameters (test size etc) to > use to get meaningful numbers. > A suggested tools for managing test parameters and results might be > https://reframe-hpc.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ > > The report format could be similar to > https://fenics.github.io/performance-test-results/ > or perhaps the GSoC worker could come up with a better way of presenting > results. > > It would be useful to be able to quantify how well our HPC packages > actually scale (in cloud computing environments) and monitor if there's > any drop in performance (e.g. with version updates) > > Also useful to report their performance with the various BLAS > alternatives. > > This would be valuable GSoC project I think. > > Drew
