Hello Ken, *, On Jun 29, 2013, at 1:34 PM, Kenneth Hoste wrote: > I'm open for suggestions, but I have a strong preference for either Brussels > (can we get hold of a good location there), Ghent (for obvious reasons) or > Luxembourg (but only if a significant amount of people from your site would > actively join in). Mostly because that limits the amount of time we 'lose' by > traveling (Luxembourg is still ok-ish).
Yes, roughly this is what I had in mind, too. I think that, if we would constrain it to Brussels/Ghent, it's specific enough for the moment, no? Ideally, I'd like to see well-known participants from .at & .cy join in, but surely availability on specific days will tell us what is truly feasible. > Also, what would be the goal of this hackathon? Hands-on with help from us, > more of a discussathon on open issues, working together on getting open > issues fixed, ...? I believe we have arrived at a point that discussathons (for newcomers: initial discussions before hackathon, to identify hot spots) are a time burden. If we find ways to limit them, that would be a plus; fi. in Cyprus, we were able to advance fine by breaking up in smaller teams; that worked well. IMHO, next event could be very successful by working around just three objectives: 1) help people advance with certain easyconfigs/easyblocks (ie. implementation issues) 2) identify/collect common stumble points when applying EasyBuild in real HPC battles 3) progress on providing generic module namespace control (at least some initial work) Most people will come for 1), others will benefit by information around 2), while yet more can join in by advancing on 3). We could also discuss aspects around taming the MPI stacks and how to monitor them: http://my.cdash.org/index.php?project=HPC&date=2013-06-28 # experimental, may vanish (in the later care I hope Xavier can join in to present his viewpoint) So, your takes? cheers, Fotis -- echo "sysadmin know better bash than english" | sed s/min/mins/ \ | sed 's/better bash/bash better/' # Yelling in a CERN forum
