Re: supercomputer available for use

[Quiliro Ordonez]

El 2019-02-15 02:29, Eric Bavier escribió:
> On Thu, 14 Feb 2019 11:24:10 -0800
> Quiliro Ordonez <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> El 2019-02-13 13:39, address@hidden escribió:
>> > This supercomputer is available for investigational use.
>> > https://hpc.yachay.gob.ec
>> > Do you think it is worth it for the Guix project? I can ask for 
>> > availability.
>>
>> I have scheduled a visit for thursday 21st. Is there anything you
>> suggest I should ask them for?
>>
> 
> Interesting.
> 
> Do you have an HPC project/application in mind?  Several Guix
> contributors have had success in deploying Guix onto clusters and using
> Guix for their workflows.
> 
> Just a few observations with regard to the system's hardware: Using the
> system's Nvidia Tesla GPUs might be difficult from core Guix, you'd
> likely need to package cudatoolkit yourself. Ricardo was going to add
> Infiniband support to our OpenMPI package soon.  As far as I can see,
> that website doesn't mention the processor architecture being used.
> But this website
> https://openpowerfoundation.org/blogs/ecuador-supercomputing-yachay-openpower/
> mentions the supercomputer is using OpenPOWER processors.  If that's
> correct, there'd be a bit more work to do to get Guix to target it,
> since we don't support that architecture yet, though I recall a few
> users on IRC asking about it in relation to the Talos workstation,
> iirc.
> 
> You could maybe also bring this up on address@hidden
> 
> `~Eric

Thank you for your message Eric.

I do not have the knowledge to hack on Guix much...yet. And by now you
can probably can see I have no application or project.

I was just thinking that it might be interesting or useful for Guix. And
that we could make a proposal to the university that may be advantageous
to both the Guix project and to them. If you have any proposals, I could
tell them about it.