2018-10-12

IB perf automation going strong, just finished the Ansible module to parse results into JUnit XML for Jenkins.

• Jenkins' report is a bit terse, trying to work with JSON too, for Squad
• May reuse the same logic for OpenHPC test-suite

Continuing with infrastructure refactoring.

• Benchmark jobs merge pushed, tested and in production
• Other jobs need provisioner client to be fully working
• Kea is now available in the ERP OBS
• This helps us move the lab infrastructure from x86 to Synquacer!

Trying to create VMs on D05 - CentOS, not being very successful

• Machines boot into EL2, virt-builder works mostly
• but virt-install doesn't, which is weird, since it works on synquacers

Huawei working on system and compiler (gcc, llvm) support for their new cores

• Will upstream directly, so Arm can pick up and release on their compiler, too
• Working on v8.1 atomics on MPI libraries, too
• ISVs seem to be finally joining the bandwagon, doing local tests and validation

2018-10-11

Work on InfiniBand Ansible automation in the OpenHPC recipes starting now

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