Spack Working Group @ SDSC - Meeting - 2024/05/03

[mkandes]

Attendance

• Marty Kandes
• Mahidahr Tatineni
• Subhashini Sivagnanam
• Jerry Greenberg
• Nicole Wolter
• Yuwu Chen
• Fernando Garzon
• Trevor Cooper

Agenda

1. Announcements

• Latest Spack Release: v0.21.2 (2024/03/01)
• Next Meeting: TBD
• AMD User Forum, Spack Special Interest Group
  • Meets biweekly on Mondays at 10 AM PT
  • @mahidhar is the host and can send you an invite, if you would like to join
  • Topics don't always pertain to Spack
• Research Experience for High School Students: Monday, June 17th - Friday, August 9th

2. Expanse: Upgrade and Deployment of Spack v0.21.2

• 2024/04/19 - 2024/05/03: Create development spack instance(s) based on a subset of the current production instances
  • expanse/0.17.3/cpu/dev
    • https://github.com/mkandes/spack/tree/sdsc-0.17.3-gh-124-inst-exp-cpu-dev
      • amber
      • beast
      • gromacs
      • hpl
      • ior
      • iq-tree
      • namd
      • neuron
      • omb
      • openfoam
      • quantum-espresso
      • raxml
      • raxml-ng
      • stream
      • wrf
  • expanse/0.17.3/gpu/dev
• 2024/05: Create a new deployment branch for spack-0.21.2
• 2024/05: Roll forward development spack instance(s) from spack-0.17.3 to spack-0.21.2
  • expanse/0.21.2/cpu/dev
  • expanse/0.21.2/gpu/dev
• 2024/06: Build out new production spack instance(s) on spack-0.21.2 deployment branch
  • expanse/0.21.2/cpu/a
  • expanse/0.21.2/gpu/a
• 2024/07: Deploy new production instances for testing
  • expanse/0.21.2/cpu/a
  • expanse/0.21.2/gpu/a
• 2024/06: Test new production instance(s)
  • expanse/0.21.2/cpu/a
  • expanse/0.21.2/gpu/a
• 2024/0X: Retire original production spack instances: expanse/0.15.4/cpu and expanse/0.15.4/gpu

3. TSCC: General Disscussion and/or Updates

4. Collaboration on Software Containers and Environments

• https://github.com/sdsc/nexus

5. Open Forum

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