Telcon: 2016 03 31

Participants

1. Todd Gamblin (LLNL)
2. Jim Amundson (Fermi)
3. Jim Galarowicz (Krell)
4. Ben Boeckel (Kitware)
5. Matt Legendre (LLNL)
6. Patrick Gartung (Fermi)
7. Peter Scheibel (LLNL)
8. Cyrus Harrison (LLNL)
9. Greg Lee (LLNL)
10. Mike Collette (LLNL)

Package issues & general stability

1. Many mac issues fixed by merging Erik Schnetter's many excellent PRs

• Extensively tested updated cc wrapper on Mac and Linux
• Added some test cases for the new functionality

1. Fixed bug related to ld -r on Mac OS X (reported by Patrick Gartung)
2. More stable blas/lapack/scipy stack

• Can now build scipy swapping out openblas, netlib-lapack, and atlas
• default install just works

1. Fix for missing cmake bug

New packages

    apr       cuda    googletest  netcdf-cxx  py-bottleneck  subversion  
    apr-util  dealii  hoomd-blue  numdiff     py-netcdf      modules
    astyle    gdal    kealib      openjpeg    py-tuiview   

Many other packages have been updated. Notably Trillions, which has MANY more options now.

Thanks to everyone for all the contributions!

• Major ramp-up on the contributors page
• 43 pull requests from 14 people this week.
  • Lots of effort put in to get deal.ii working seems to have paid off.
• First 2-week period over 10k views.
• 19 issues closed, 23 opened according to pulse.
  • hey at least it's better than usual!

News and updates

1. Local packages caching (Peter Scheibel)
2. RPM install (Peter Scheibel)

• preparatory PR is here

1. OS/platform support (Greg Becker)
2. Build & other dependency types (Ben Boeckel)

• Todd still reviewing this -- sorry!

1. Qt & VTK

• Should be done with Qt for OS X by tomorrow 🎉
• VTK updates (DJ Deo)

1. HEP Software Foundation (Fermi/CERN/BNL/others) has built a spack instance for ROOT. See their notes
2. Recursive uninstall
3. News from NASA JPL -- spack working well there.

• Groups seem to be very happy with build automation for their apps, per @citibeth

1. CUDA package (Adam Stewart)
2. mirror_only package support (Joe Ciurej)
3. Modules package (Patrick Gartung)
4. Many other improvements still need review:

• PySide for Python 3.5
• others

Discussion

1. How to install boost?

• use tagged layout or system layout?
• preference is to use system layout since Spack handles versioning.
  • Jim A. strongly supports this.
• Jim G. still having issues with boost build
  • Peter Scheibel to help Jim out.

1. How to mix compilers?

2. Should compilers be dependencies?

3. Cleaning Spack's build environment

4. Tried to set up a Mac agent in Travis CI, but perhaps Python doesn't work there:

   $ export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive
   Fix WWDRCA Certificate
   2.6 is not installed; attempting download
   /Users/travis/build.sh: line 45: lsb_release: command not found
   /Users/travis/build.sh: line 45: lsb_release: command not found
   tar: Unrecognized archive format
   tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors.
   The command "sudo tar xjf python-2.6.tar.bz2 --directory /" failed and exited with 1 during .
   Your build has been stopped.
   

   Any ideas?

5. iMac for future build/test now sitting on Todd's desk.

6. Todd still needs to respond to issues from Benedikt for CERN hackathon.