On 25 Jan 2017, at 07:41, Kenneth Hoste <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
On 24/01/2017 16:56, Benjamin Evans wrote: Davide, Seems like a good idea to me. Would it make sense to build it on top of the gcccuda toolchain? Maybe call it fosscuda to fit with several of the other toolchains that include CUDA? +1, it would make sense, but someone else would have to pull the effort here... Doing this on top of gcccuda and naming it fosscuda makes sense to me (since 'intelcuda' is already a known toolchain). I thought that was what goolfc is meant to be. Looking at http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/eb_list_toolchains.html there seems no difference between goolf and foss. So I assumed goolf is an old legacy name and foss the new one. I was a bit surprised when the goolfc was named like that instead of fossc or fosscuda. But then I didn’t create that toolchain and just went with what it there. In the end, I documented it for the users, e.g.: http://lunarc-documentation.readthedocs.io/en/latest/aurora_modules/#currently-provided-toolchains Do we need/want to rename goolfc or is there a severe difference between goolf and foss. So far I assumed a proper EasyBuild standard (e.g. goolfc/2017a) would be agreed on now and the 2016.10 is like e.g. foss/2016.09 an intermediate step. Any comments? J. K. On Tue, Jan 24, 2017 at 10:41 AM, Vanzo, Davide <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: Hello world, I really like the idea of using foss and intel toolchain as common toolchain with other sites. However since we also have GPU nodes on our cluster we would need a foss toolchain with CUDA. I know that there is goolfc already out there but that does not comply to the a/b release frequency as foss does. Plus the fact that it is not "fossc" it does not make it obvious to users what it is. I was then wondering if any other may benefit from such toolchain and if it would be a good idea starting it. -- Davide Vanzo, PhD Application Developer Adjunct Assistant Professor of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering Advanced Computing Center for Research and Education (ACCRE) Vanderbilt University - Hill Center 201 (615)-875-9137<tel:%28615%29%20875-9137> www.accre.vanderbilt.edu<http://www.accre.vanderbilt.edu/>
