Azure meeting Oct 28 2022

EESSI/Azure/SURF sync meeting 2022-10-28

• use of sponsored credits

  • see update in https://github.com/EESSI/meetings/blob/main/meetings/EESSI_meeting_20221006.pdf

• adding CUDA support

  • see https://eessi.github.io/docs/meetings/2022-09-amsterdam/#thu-15-sept-2022

• bot

  • https://github.com/EESSI/eessi-bot-software-layer

• data repo

• events

  • EESSI community meeting
    • https://eessi.github.io/docs/meetings/2022-09-amsterdam
  • SC'22
    • attending: Davide
      • azhop workshop with OpenFOAM demo
      • could use EESSI for this?
    • Kenneth will check if people in the EESSI community will be attending SC'22

• funding proposals

  • MultiXscale EuroHPC
    • see https://eessi.github.io/docs/meetings/2022-09-amsterdam/EESSI-community-meeting-2022.09-021-MultiXscale.pdf
  • OCRE
    • new funding opportunity coming up
    • see https://ocre-project.eu/events/opportunities-european-research-infrastructures-commercial-cloud-services-under-eosc-%E2%80%93-call
    • SURF needs to look into single-provider limitation
    • deadline mid Dec'22
    • follow-up meeting on this Fri 4 Nov by SURF & EESSI

• actions

  • follow-up on OCRE
  • Slurm cluster in Azure (with azhop, Magic Castle, CitC, CycleCloud)
    • azhop comes with Open OnDemand
    • minimal setup
      • SSH access
      • Slurm: login + workernodes
      • shared filesystem (NFS, ...)
    • could be multi-purpose
      • backend for build-and-deploy bot
      • testing (single-node + multi-node via Infiniband)
      • give people access for demos
  • some more noise on EESSI/MultiXscale early 2023?

• next call

  • Fri 9 Dec 2022 - 14:00 UTC