Description

Dates: 27-28 April 2023

Venue: Imperial College London (Drawing Room)

Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required for practical purposes.

Seats are limited (20).

Registration deadline: Sun 9 April 2023.

Note: only physical attendance!

We will try and record the sessions and make the recordings available shortly after, but remote attendance is unfortunately not possible.

Agenda
 

Day 1 - Thu 27 April 2023 - 10:00-17:30 BST

Introduction to EasyBuild (incl. demos & hands-on) - https://easybuild.io 

• EasyBuild terminology
• Installation and configuration of EasyBuild
• Basic usage: installing software with EasyBuild
• Adding support for additional software: writing easyconfigs
• Troubleshooting
• Module naming schemes (incl. hierarchical)

Day 2 - Fri 28 April 2023 - 10:00-17:30 BST

EasyBuild: advanced topics (incl. demos & hands-on)

• Contributing to EasyBuild (incl. GitHub integration)
• Customizing EasyBuild using hooks
• Implementing easyblocks
• Submitting installations as Slurm jobs
• Using EasyBuild as a Python library
   

Introduction to EESSI - the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations ( https://eessi.github.io/docs )

• What is EESSI?
• High-level design of EESSI
• Getting access to EESSI
• Using EESSI
• Incl. demos & hands-on
   

Organizers

• Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)
• Simon Branford (University of Birmingham, UK)
• Jasper Grimm (University of York, UK)
• Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford, UK)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)

Contact

In case of questions, please email:

• Jörg: j.sassmannshausen@imperial.ac.uk
• Kenneth: kenneth.hoste@ugent.be

or ask in the EasyBuild Slack (see https://easybuild.io/join-slack).