Hi Fotis, On 29 Jun 2013, at 16:51, Fotis Georgatos wrote:
> 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. Locking it to Brussels/Ghent would be sufficient for planning it, yes. Can you adjust the doodle accordingly? > >> 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? That sounds excellent. I guess it also depends a little bit on the attendees. So, for now, lets keep it as stated above, and adjust if needed. I created an initial hackathon wiki page to collect all final bits, see https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/4th-easybuild-hackathon . Suggestions for more edits are welcome. K.
