2019-07-2 HPC Meeting Agenda/Minutes

Attendance

Committee Members 

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

(tick)

Larry Wikelius (Marvell)

(tick)

Jon Masters (Red Hat)

(error)

Takeharu Kato (Fujitsu)

(tick)

Koichi Hirai (Fujitsu)

(tick)

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) 

(tick)

Andrea Gallo (VP Memberships, Linaro)

(tick)

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

(tick)

Victor Duan (Japan Country Mgr, Linaro)

(error)

Jammy Zhou (China Country Mgr, Linaro)

(tick)

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

(tick)

Darren Cepulis (Arm)

 (tick)

Masakazu Ueno (Fujitsu)

(tick)

Xavier Valls (CERN)

(tick)

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

(error)

Andrew Young (Sandia)

(tick)

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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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