Some initial discussions of a Fedora HPC SIG
Orion Poplawski
orion at cora.nwra.com
Thu Sep 4 14:57:50 UTC 2008
Doug Ledford wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-08-29 at 09:44 -0700, Shawn Starr wrote:
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> It would be great if we can kick off the SIG.
>>
>> 1) Which day and time would be good for the meetings in #fedora-meeting
>>
>> The available times are here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/FedoraMeetingChannel
>
> I'm free most days after about 14:00 or 15:00UTC.
Mon-Fri 15-18, 19-23 best for me.
>> 2) Let's come up with an initial agenda.
>
> Defining what should be in a reasonably complete HPC Comps group
> Define a complete component list
> Pick which of those components should be default vs. optional
> Identify packages not yet in Fedora that are on the list and
> allow people to sign up to get them through a review process
> and in Fedora
> Identify any shortcomings in upstream standards for HPC
> packages (there's a lot here, eg. the upstream MPI groups
> don't have the faintest clue on how to get together and
> create a standard installation layout or anything else)
> Where upstream has no clue about doing things in a standard
> way, at least work to create one inside the framework
> of Fedora and attempt to push it to upstream if they are
> receptive of the idea.
> Identify packages in Fedora that need updating/changing to
> meet said standards
> Allow people to sign up to work those changes if the package
> maintainer is unable to do so
>
> Something along those lines ought to get things started.
Looks good to me.
I haven't indicated my interest before, but I am. I maintain
gridengine, paraview, hdf5, gdl and some others.
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