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2018-09-18 YVR18 HPC Meeting Minutes

2018-09-18 YVR18 HPC Meeting Minutes

Oct 16, 2018

Attendance

Committee Members 

NamePresent
Kanta Vekaria (HPC Lead, OCTO Linaro)(tick)
Martin Stadtler (Director of LEG, Linaro)(tick)
Andrew Wafaa (ARM)(tick)

Pak Lui (Huawei)

(tick)

Larry Wikelius (Cavium)

(tick)

Scott Hara (Qualcomm) 


Steve Geist (Qualcomm)


Hongbo Zhang (HXT)


Jon Masters (RedHat)

(tick)

Takeharu Kato (Fujitsu)

(tick)

Koichi Hirai (Fujitsu)(tick)
Kevin Pedretti (Sandia)(tick)


Guests 

NamePresent

David Rusling (CTO, Linaro) 

(tick)

Andrea Gallo (VP of Segment Groups, Linaro)


Anoop Saxena (Project Manager, Segments)

(tick)

Renato Golin (Linaro)

(tick)  

Peter Jones (DDN Whamcloud)

(tick)  

Ryan Grant(tick)
Bill Gray, James Laros (Sandia)(tick)


Tues 18th Sept - Lustre 

Slides and Recording

Minutes Summary

  • http://lustre.org/roadmap/
  • Lustre client 2.12 is due to be out in Oct. This will work 'out of the box'. Linaro to validate with OpenHPC
  • Announce at SC18 Client support on Arm
  • HW needed for testing
  • Call to action to collaborate, share findings and knowledge to help evolve it faster for Arm



Thurs 20th Sept - MPI 

Slides and Recording


Minutes Summary

  • What are the key MPI libraries that need to be optimised?
  • Which MPI configuration is best?
  • What MPI benchmarks can we run?
  • Conduct a first analysis or pool analyses to then clearly identify engineering priorities and objectives. This work will need to be resourced with appropriate skillset
  • Need to run scaling studies
  • General consensus to focus on openMPI
  • No concerns raised with Linaro's prospective Roadmap in Engineering review. All acknowledged the need for resourcing the efforts
  • Members to share their existing openMPI efforts as part of the first analysis


Next meeting 2nd Oct

Agenda: Latest and greatest on openHPC (Renato): What's next? What is being driven by that community?