2019-07-2 HPC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

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Last updated: Jul 16, 2019

Attendance

Committee Members 

NamePresent
Elsie Wahlig (Sr Director LDCG, Linaro)(tick)
Andrew Wafaa (Arm)

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Larry Wikelius (Marvell)

(tick)

Jon Masters (Red Hat)

(error)

Takeharu Kato (Fujitsu)

(tick)

Koichi Hirai (Fujitsu)

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Kevin Pedretti (Sandia NL)(error)
Yutaka Ishikawa (Riken)(error)
Jakob Blomer (CERN)(error)


(error) Not present

(tick) Present



Guests 

NamePresent

Mark Orvek (VP Engineering, Linaro) 

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Andrea Gallo (VP Memberships, Linaro)

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Baptiste Gerondeau (HPC Engineer, Linaro)(error) 
Graeme Gregory (LDCG Engineering Mgr, Linaro)

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Victor Duan (Japan Country Mgr, Linaro)

(error)

Jammy Zhou (China Country Mgr, Linaro)

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Eric Van Hensbergen (Arm)(error)  
Brent Gorda (Arm)

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Darren Cepulis (Arm)

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Masakazu Ueno (Fujitsu)

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Xavier Valls (CERN)

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Joel Jones (Marvell)(error)
Bill Gray (Red Hat)

(error)

Andrew Young (Sandia)

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Agenda 

  • Update on hiring of tech lead
  • Update on new hardware
  • HPC lab update (Graeme)
  • ISC 2019 Highlights (Graeme)
  • AOB

Minutes

  • Update on hiring of tech lead
    • Starting on 8 July 2019
    • Announcement coming soon
  • Update on new hardware
    • 6 new Gigabyte ThunderX2 donated  by Marvell
    • They'll be added to Mlab for use by TACC for OpenHPC CI validation
  • HPC lab update (Graeme)
    • HPC lab update planned for end of July 2019
  • ISC 2019 Highlights (Graeme)
    • Lot's of Arm server coverage on the show floor
      • Fujitsu and Marvell coverage, lots of favorable benchmarks
      • Gigabyte showing off current available TX2
      • Boston will have a soon to be available TX2 Arm server
    • Nvidia announcement (Larry)
      • Availability by the end of the year
      • Removes a gap we had
      • Apollo HPE platform was designed with CPU in mind
    • Sandia announcement
      • Astra Vanguard is in the TOP 30 !!!
    • Fujitsu announcement
      • Fugaku is the name of the Post-K
  • AOB
    • Valgrind (AndrewY, Sandia)
      • Doesn't work very well due to lacking IP enablement.  Good topic for near term work.
      • Andy Wafaa:  Aware of issues with Valgrind.  They will bring in an assignee to get parity on TX2 (Armv8.1 upstream) and future revisions of the architecture
      • AndrewY:  Sandia uses gdb, so Valgrind wasn't critical, but would like to see this get better.  

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