Azure meeting 2025 01 20

EESSI/Azure sync meeting 2025-01-20

Attendees

• Kenneth (UGent/EESSI)
• Ivar, Martin (SURF)
• Laura (MS Azure)

Notes

• integration of EESSI into EuroHPC Federation Platform
  • https://eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/paving-way-eurohpc-federation-platform-2024-12-19_en
  • https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6718-eurohpc-fp-a-federated-platform-for-hpc-infrastructure-in-europe-built-with-open-source-software/
• current burn rate: ~3.3k/month
  • currently sufficient funds until ~June 2025
  • (Laura) maybe via education team
    • goal to have better view on what's possible at MS side by next sync meeting (Mon 17 Feb 2025)
    • maybe get in touch with Jet de Ranitz (ex-SURF CEO)
  • currently mostly for AMD Genoa (Zen4) support in EESSI
  • also used for dev.eessi.io repository
  • also interest in supporting Arm-based instance types in Azure

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Notes of previous meetings

• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-12-16
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-09-18
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-04-15
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-03-11
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-01-15
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2024-01-15
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-12-18
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-09-18
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-08-21
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-06-19
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-05-15
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-04-17
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-02-17
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-2023-01-20
• https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/wiki/Azure-meeting-Dec-9-2022