Telcon: 2015 08 13

Participants

Welcome to NERSC user support members who are joining the mailing list!
Final version of SC15 Spack paper uploaded (available on request)
Hoping to get back to Spack core features and 0.9 release next week, as summer winds down.
Next Thursday, 8/20, we'll discuss better Cray support with NERSC folks.
Interesting presentation from INRIA on their solver stack.

gui and cscope features for vim package (#87 -- Alfredo Gimenez)
py-pandas now has more requisite dependencies (#94 -- Alfredo Gimenez)
Fix for servers with old https protocol and --depth by (#88 -- Tom Scogland)
Pre-alpha versions of LLNL's nexst-generation [Flux resource manager](#92 -- https://github.com/flux-framework/ (Tom Scogland)

Greg had a strange bug with MPI & python
- When mpi4py build with mpich, mpich was not built properly with SLURM
- Greg manually modified the wrappers to link in -lpmi (mpich dynamically checks for this to determine if it is running under SLURM)
  - Need to investigate how to automatically add this feature.
- built mpi4py, tried to run it
  - auth_munge.so gets unresolved symbol to a SLURM function
  - seems like another SLURM environment setup issue
  - Greg able to work around by loading the slurmdb module in Python
Multi-user /tmp bug still causing problems -- need to get this fixed soon. Next week!
Josh Stone (RedHat) discovered compiler detection bug when version is not properly recognized (#95)
py-pandas bug discovered by Karen Ng (UC Davis) while working on Spark (#)
Another user having issues with scipy on RHEL6 -- need to get better test environment.
Mike found bug with mirrors:
- specifying @version on command line doesn't work right with mirrors.

Should get to integrating Open|SpeedShop packages next week. Will test on LLNL systems.
- Need to look into Jim's long RPATH problem still.
- Don wants way to add RPATHs
- Custom module support needed for OSS to be used in production
Should have more people (external and internal) on Spack in the near future (faster releases!)
RPM generation for TOSS3
- How to generate multiple package hierarchies in /usr/local and in /opt