<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"Neely, Rob" <<a href="mailto:neely4@llnl.gov" class="">neely4@llnl.gov</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">Re: [ECP-ST-PIs] Plan for Regular ECP Software Stack Releases - your feedback sought</b><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">October 10, 2017 at 9:55:29 PM GMT+2<br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org" class="">ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org" class="">ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org</a>><br class=""></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;" class=""><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);" class=""><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;" class="">"<a href="mailto:ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og" class="">ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og</a>" <<a href="mailto:ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og" class="">ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og</a>>, Andrew Siegel <<a href="mailto:siegela@uchicago.edu" class="">siegela@uchicago.edu</a>>, Phillip Colella <<a href="mailto:pcolella@lbl.gov" class="">pcolella@lbl.gov</a>><br class=""></span></div><br class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">ST Project PIs,<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Some of you provided feedback to our proposed ECP software release plan, and we’re taking all of that into account and will come back with a refined set of software release plans soon – but in the meantime, we’ve gotten the go ahead from Paul (and now Doug) to start this effort.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">One of the early pieces we want to get in place is a solid system for allowing continuous integration (CI) at the various DOE HPC facilities. After months of discussion in a working group understanding what CI systems are being prototyped at the various DOE centers, and where the pain points are – we feel like we have relative consensus on a preferred path forward. The details are all provided here, and I invite you to take a look at provide some feedback:<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><a href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2640n7FGoKM2NYVw074tkBUErwpflEZx_IpMv7mYm0/edit#heading=h.qb76z9iuhwd" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://docs.google.com/document/d/1n2640n7FGoKM2NYVw074tkBUErwpflEZx_IpMv7mYm0/edit#heading=h.qb76z9iuhwd</a><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">TL;DR - we’re proposing to extend the open source GitLab CI tool to address some of the key issues that virtually all CI tools have that make them difficult to use in an HPC environment. For projects that don’t use GitLab (or don’t want to), we believe there is a sufficiently smooth pathway to integrate with either<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://github.com/" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">github.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>via plugins, or to automatically mirror your git repos to our gitlab enterprise site, and thus this represents the best solution. We welcome your feedback, as we’re close to putting out an RFQ to get the necessary features added by a 3<sup class="">rd</sup><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>party. Please leave your comments on the google doc site, or email me directly. Something in the next week (say, by COB on 10/19) would be most helpful.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">Our goal is nothing short of making CI as easy to use on DOE HPC systems as you’re used to with your cloud-based offerings!<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">--Rob<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class=""><span style="" class="">From:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></b><span style="" class="">Rob Neely <<a href="mailto:neely4@llnl.gov" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">neely4@llnl.gov</a>><br class=""><b class="">Date:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Friday, September 8, 2017 at 1:07 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">ecp-st-pis@exascaleproject.org</a>><br class=""><b class="">Cc:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>"<a href="mailto:ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og</a>" <<a href="mailto:ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">ecp-lab-leadership@exascaleproject.og</a>>, Andrew Siegel <<a href="mailto:siegela@uchicago.edu" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">siegela@uchicago.edu</a>>, Phillip Colella <<a href="mailto:pcolella@lbl.gov" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">pcolella@lbl.gov</a>>, "Julia C. White" <<a href="mailto:whitejc@ornl.gov" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">whitejc@ornl.gov</a>><br class=""><b class="">Subject:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></b>Plan for Regular ECP Software Stack Releases - your feedback sought<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></span></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">ST Projects PIs,</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">As part of our long-term goals to integrate our ST products and support the AD projects and DOE HPC facilities, we (the ST L2's/L3's in concert with the broader ECP management team) have produced a draft plan for doing a regular release of the ECP software stack. There is a confluence page set up at<a href="https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/1ST/Plan+for+Regular+ECP+Software+Stack+Releases" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/1ST/Plan+for+Regular+ECP+Software+Stack+Releases</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>where we invite you to take a look and provide any feedback.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">This plan emerged out of initial ST integration planning activities, early discussions with the HPC facilities on support for continuous integration and support for our software stack (<a href="https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=25990689" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=25990689</a>), and broader ECP management team discussions on ways to highlight our software projects as a comprehensive and cohesive product of the ECP ST activities.</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">We are asking for a quick turnaround on comments (by Sept 15th) so we can move forward as quickly as possible with final approvals, and beginning the tasks of building up the team and identifying resources necessary to begin an execution phase.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b class="">This will ultimately impact most, if not all, of the ST projects</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>- so your input is critical. We ask that comments be left on the confluence page, but if you prefer to keep your input private - you can send it directly to me (<a href="https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/~neely4@llnl.gov" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Rob Neely</a>).</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">See:<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://confluence.exascaleproject.org/display/1ST/Plan+for+Regular+ECP+Software+Stack+Releases" style="color: rgb(149, 79, 114); text-decoration: underline;" class="">Plan for Regular ECP Software Stack Releases</a></span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class="">--Rob Neely, on behalf of the ST leadership team</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt 0.5in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt;" class=""> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><span style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 18px; 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