2nd EasyBuild User Meeting

Concept

The EasyBuild User Meeting is an open and highly interactive event that provides a great opportunity to meet fellow EasyBuild enthusiasts, discuss related topics and learn about new aspects of the tool.

It is intended for people that are already familiar with EasyBuild, ranging from occasional users to EasyBuild core developers and experts, and topics will be less introductory in nature than during EasyBuild hackathons/workshops that have been organised in the past.

The program includes presentations by both EasyBuild users and developers, next to hands-on sessions.

The presentations will cover a wide variety of EasyBuild related topics, including how EasyBuild has been integrated into existing infrastructures, how it can be combined with other tools, (new) EasyBuild features that are considered particularly useful, or other tools that are somehow (loosely) related to EasyBuild and could be of interest to attendees.

The hands-on sessions are intended for becoming more familiar with the practical aspects of EasyBuild, resolving problems with the help of others, and/or working together to further enhance EasyBuild. Participants are expected to decide for themselves what they work on during the hands-on sessions.

Practical information

• event page: http://www.fz-juelich.de/ias/jsc/eum17
• date: Wed-Fri Feb 8-10th 2017
  • week after FOSDEM'17, see https://fosdem.org/2017
• venue: Forschungszentrum Jülich - Jülich, Germany
  • see http://www.fz-juelich.de/portal/EN/AboutUs/_node.html
  • hotel recommendation: http://www.stadthotel-juelich.de/
• attendance is free of charge, but registration is required to get security clearance
  • register via https://indico-jsc.fz-juelich.de/event/30/registration/register
• questions? contact [email protected]

Agenda

(subject to change)

all times a Central European Time (CET)

Wednesday February 8th 2017

• [10am] Keynote: Containers in HPC with Singularity (Michael Bauer, University of Michigan, US)
  • introduction to Singularity, see http://singularity.lbl.gov/
• [11pm] EasyBuild: past, present & future (Kenneth Hoste, HPC-UGent)
  • update on recent developments + outlook into the (near) future
• [1.30pm] EasyBuild vs The World of Shiny New Things (Robert Schmidt, OHRI, Canada)
  • talk on how EasyBuild relates to containers (Docker, Singularity, rkt, ...), Nix, Spack, conda, ...
• [2.30pm] EasyBuild: A New Hope (Damian Alvarez, JSC, Germany)
  • update of EasyBuild at JSC, software management structure and recent improvements
• [3.00pm] Site presentations (to be decided)
• [4pm] Update on Lmod & XALT (Robert McLay, TACC) [remote presentation]

Thursday February 9th 2017

• [9am] Tutorial: implementing easyblocks (Kenneth Hoste, HPC-UGent)
• [10am - 5pm] hackathon (hands-on)

Friday February 10th 2017

• [9am - 5pm] hackathon (hands-on)

Attendees

list of registered attendees (subject to change):

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany; EasyBuild contributor)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild lead developer and release manager)
• Markus Geimer (JSC, Germany; EasyBuild contributor)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany; EasyBuild contributor)
• Robert Schmidt (OHRI, Canada; EasyBuild contributor)