RCS Software Management Group

Minutes

Meeting: March 18th 2021

Participants:

• David Schulz
• Dmitri Rozmanov
• Ian Percel
• Tannistha Nandi

Minutes of the meeting:

Things to prepare before the next meeting in two weeks time:

1. Disable Open-mpi 1.6 (Dmitri)
2. Install a new version of open-mpi (??Dmitri)
3. Install gcc 10.2 (Tannistha)
4. Look into modification of an existing build to use RPATH. Compare RPATH Vs LD_LIBRARY_PATH (Ian)

Topics Discussed

1. Prepare a list of the obsolete / non-functional modules and disable them.
2. Test out a standard environment with gcc compiler. Multiple standard environments to be considered in the future.
3. Switch to singularity container completely? Investigate the pros and cons.

Completed tasks

• Dmitri:

Disabled the openmpi/1.6.5-gnu, python/anaconda-2.7-5.1.0, python/andconda-3.6-5.10 modules on ARC.

These have to be removed some time in April.

• Tannistha:

Installed GCC 10.x.x on ARC.