Åke Sandgren

auto-detection, use existing module if told to

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The auto-detection could perhaps be made to use an existing module on the remote system instead of bootstrapping itself. I would make the process a lot faster. A config option...

auto-detection could pick up things like clock freq and core features (sse/avx etc)

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It could be useful for things like adapting performance reference values, and compile time options.

Just like slurms src/sbatch/opt.c handles env vars before it is calling the API, there should be the same type of handling in pyslurm. Either using the SBATCH_xxx env vars or...

Segmentation fault - invalid memory reference when running Netlib LAPACK 3.9.0 xlintsts

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Hi! I know that this is somewhat one the wrong side of the bleeding edge for libFLAME, but in the process of investigating BLIS+libFLAME as the main blas/lapack libs for...

Request for improved documentation on easyconfig parameters

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The EB docco is lacking in some areas. For instance, if one searches for skipsteps, there is no list of what the steps one can skip are actually called. And...

It should use Lmod syntax or be extend to show both.

That page should be autogenerated in the same style as http://easybuild.readthedocs.io/en/latest/version-specific/easyconfig_parameters.html#vsd-avail-easyconfig-params

{devel}[system/system] ReFrame v3.12.0

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(created using `eb --new-pr`)

Patch files not looked for in all the right places

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I have AlphaFold-2.0.0-foss-2020b.eb in our custom easyconfig tree (/hpc2n/eb/custom/easyconfigs/a/AlphaFold/) and when trying to build it can't find the OpenMM-%(version)s_AlphaFold.patch These are the places it is searching in: ``` /hpc2n/eb/custom/easyconfigs/a/AlphaFold/OpenMM/OpenMM-7.5.1_AlphaFold.patch /hpc2n/eb/custom/easyconfigs/a/AlphaFold/OpenMM-7.5.1_AlphaFold.patch...

Using --new-pr some-ec.eb -r the code only warns about missing patches for some-ec.eb, not any dependencies that gets auto included. This could hopefully be enhanced.