JupyterHub HPC Meeting - March 2022#

Welcome to the Meeting#

Hello! If you are joining the team video meeting, sign in below so we know who was here. Roll call:

  • name / institution / GitHub handle

  • Rollin Thomas / NERSC / @rcthomas

  • Félix-Antoine Fortin / Université Laval - Compute Canada / @cmd-ntrf

  • Kevin Paul / NCAR / @kmpaul

  • Michael Milligan / UMN / @mbmilligan

  • Gayle Ollington / NumFocus / @gollington

  • James Beal / Sanger Institute / @jbeal-work

  • Richard Darst / Aalto University / @rkdarst

Quick updates#

60 second updates on things you have been up to, questions you have, or developments you think people should know about. This is also a chance to suggest a future presentation if you’ve got work currently in progress you might want to share. Please add yourself, and if you do not have an update to share, you can pass.

  • Name: Your update

  • Mike did 1.0.1 release and that’s up on PyPI

Reports and celebrations#

This is a place to make announcements (without a need for discussion). This is also a great place to give shout-outs to contributors! We’ll read through these at the beginning of the meeting.

  • Name: Your report or celebration

Agenda items#

Let’s collect all potential agenda items here before the start of the meeting. We will then attempt to create a coherent agenda that fits in the 60m meeting slot. If there are similar items try and group them together.

  • NumFOCUS Community Events manager intro: Gayle

  • All: Standing project items:

    • Batchspawner check-in: Issues and PRs

      • need to check CI status, seems to be failing for PRs

        • pytest run for 3.9 against hub 0.9.6 fails

        • using a deprecated sqlalchemy maybe pinned by hub

        • Plan: drop that combo from the matrix, rerun

        • jupyterhub/batchspawner#229

        • Will probably unblock other failed PR tests

      • Worthwhile to do a sweep on batchspawner PRs

        • Which are worth keeping which to close?

        • Plan: Mike will take a look on PRs

    • Wrapspawner check-in: Issues and PRs

    • James had a question about his local subclass

      • He’ll post it and make an issue on BatchSpawner

  • Workshop/conference season:

    • ISC 22 Interactive HPC

      • https://www.interactivehpc.com

      • Submission deadline: March 24, 2022 (AOE)

      • Author notification: April 14, 2022

      • 6-12 page papers, ~~also “paper drafting exercise”~~

    • SciPy CfP is out, deadline Feb 11 talks/papers, tutorials following week

    • SC 22 Workshop CfP out, Feb 25 deadline for workshops

      • Urgent+Interactive HPC workshop proposal submitted, fingers crossed