2018-10-11

Work on InfiniBand Ansible automation in the OpenHPC recipes starting now

• enable_mellanox_ib: using MOFED drivers (download ISO, build, install, reboot)
• enable_linux_ib: using INBOX OFED driver, just package install

Ansible work on Lustre will have to wait until Whamcloud publishes the new version

• They have promised full Arm support by then...

Ansible OpenHPC development will change to Linaro

• Linaro's repo will be the upstream
• We're all going to have local forks and work there, ultimately pushing to Linaro's as branches
• Linaro's Lab will use the branch production, Fujitsu will create branches for them
• We need some effort to make sure the two don't diverge too much (by testing each other patches and merging to master frequently, then rebasing)

Upstreaming those Ansible playbooks will have to wait until both Linaro and Fujitsu are using the same set of changes (minus local ones), so that we can start welcoming other labs' entirely new playbooks into our repos.

Due to long term sickness, Fujitsu is replacing Takahiro Miyoshi with Masakazu Ueno, who will continue the work in HPC-212 (LLVM TSVC improvements). The last of Takahiro's patches was committed this week.

@Renato to update the s278 task with some info on how to get the information necessary to start debugging, to give Masakazu a head start in the LLVM world.

Both Renato and Masaki spent a good amount of time building their LLVM environments, and using Linaro's git and scripts, and hope to resume coding in the following weeks. :)

The benchmark harness is now in Alpha version, so we're encouraging everyone to start using it locally and report bugs, propose improvements, send patches for new benchmarks, etc.

Baptiste is doing the arduous (and very valuable) work of refactoring our Jenkins jobs, Mr-Provisioner's client and overall lab stability tasks.

2018-10-05

OpenSM still causing issues when setting up IB on the D03s

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