2020-07-07 XCRI Team Meeting

• Engagements
  • Mizzou - meeting w/ Tim Middelkoop on storage options - lots of questions
  • Langston meetings w/ Franklin F-F
    
    • Will result in toolkit updates (XCAT now included!)
  • Morehouse - Alfred W. - when he gets hardware, we will help with dev-openstack
  • UIUC Beckman meeting set July 15th
  • UCO - meeting tomorrow 7/8 to discuss Eric's incredibly detailed work plan
  • GMU - Dates set for GMU, probably will pull in Stephen Bird for that, develop work plan
  • Clarkson - Rich to close loop with CIO and Admin person
• Toolkits
  • No news on VC
  • XCBC 2.0 update for OpenHPC and also for XCAT
  • Container Templates - Nix containers with OpenMPI and HPL ready
    • GitHub repos:
      
      • https://github.com/XSEDE/docker-centos-nix-base
      • https://github.com/XSEDE/docker-centos-nix-openmpi
      • https://github.com/XSEDE/singularity-nix-base
      • https://github.com/XSEDE/singularity-nix-openmpi
    • Docker Hub XSEDE organization: https://hub.docker.com/orgs/xsede
      • https://hub.docker.com/r/xsede/centos-nix-openmpi?
      • https://hub.docker.com/r/xsede/centos-nix-base
    • 2 collections on SingularityHub
      • https://singularity-hub.org/collections/4462
      • https://singularity-hub.org/collections/4465
    • Next steps:
      
      • Need to submit an issue to Nix repo - better interop with Singularity required for full benefits
      • To announce container templates in inside XSEDE, docs by end of July in readthedocs, meeting with JP to discuss packaging
      •  Revisit the list of software to identify likely candidates
• Outreach activities
  • PEARC tutorial is going full steam
  • IEEE HPEC paper - https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14784
  • https://www.canopie-hpc.org/cfp20/ containers and orchestration - due Sept 3rd
• SP Forum
• RQ: Cancer Compute, will follow up with JT

Attending

• Resa Reynolds
• Lucille Jarzynka
• Stephen Bird
• Rob Quick
• Eric Coulter
• Peter Vaillancourt
• Rick McMullen