[easybuild] next EasyBuild conf call: Wed Aug 22nd 2018 (*today*), 5pm CEST

2018-08-22 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Dear EasyBuilders, The next EasyBuild conf call is planned for today, Wed August 22nd 2018, at 5pm CEST, see also https://plus.google.com/events/cn6s7opf3a4cjf5jchjrf0cjni4 . My apologies for the late reminder... Current agenda: * outlook to upcoming EasyBuild 3.7.0 * ETA: by end of

[easybuild] Relaxed hierarchies by relying on MPI ABI compatibility rather than MPI vendor/version.

2018-08-22 Thread Alvarez, Damian
Dear EasyBuilders and lmod users, I have a question for the community. Currently EasyBuild supports to deploy its software stack in a hierarchical manner, as intended and supported by lmod (ie: load compiler, that expands $MODULEPATH and the MPIs become visible, load an MPI, which expands

Re: [easybuild] Relaxed hierarchies by relying on MPI ABI compatibility rather than MPI vendor/version.

2018-08-22 Thread Holanda Rusu Victor
Dear Damian, I think that this is a very good approach. In principle, it should work for MPI implementations that are part of the MPICH ABI initiative (https://www.mpich.org/abi/) We do make use of this ABI compatibility for the container usage at Piz Daint

Re: [easybuild] next EasyBuild conf call: Wed Aug 22nd 2018 (*today*), 5pm CEST

2018-08-22 Thread Kenneth Hoste
Dear EasyBuilders, Notes for today's conf call are available at https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/Conference-call-notes-20180822 . Next conf call is planned for Wed Sept 5th, see also https://plus.google.com/events/cpahr0kk2da3dbolpleldljndgg regards, Kenneth On 22/08/2018

Re: [easybuild] 2018b libraries

2018-08-22 Thread Mikael Öhman
> > After using easybuild for several years our single largest issue is > incompatible libraries used by packages in the same toolchain. We have > educated our users to always use modules and to use modules that are in the > same toolchain. Workflows can be very complex and users typically load