3rd easybuild hackathon

Basic Information

• time: Mon-Wed Mar 11-13 2013, 10am-6pm (Nicosia time)
• location: Nicosia, Cyprus
• notes: organised by LinkSCEEM

Attendees

• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild developer)
• Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg, HPC sysadmin and active contributor)
• Jens Wiegand (The Cyprus Institute)
• Stelios Erotokritou (The Cyprus Institute)
• Mohamed Gafaar (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
• Ioannis Kirmitzoglou (University of Cyprus)
• Thekla Loizou (The Cyprus Institute)
• Dina Mahmoud Ibrahim (Cairo University)
• Alan O'Cais (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
• Alexander Schnurpfeil (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
• Konstantinos Stergiopoulos (The Cyprus Institute)
• George Tsouloupas (The Cyprus Institute)
• Ioanna Kalvari (University of Cyprus)
• Demetris Charalambous (Cyprus Meteorological Service)

Agenda (planned)

Monday

• [10am] welcome by local organizers (Jens Wiegand)
• mention practical arrangements for coming days
• [10.15am] introduction round: who's who (brief, informal)
• [10.30am-11.30am] EasyBuild presentation (Kenneth Hoste, Jens Timmerman)
• intent is to train attendees on making optimal use of EasyBUild
• introduction to purpose of EasyBuild and its design
• example use cases
• focus on modularity: easyblocks and compiler toolchains
• getting started: writing easyconfigs; writing easyblocks; extending compiler toolchain support
• contributing back
• [11.30am-12.00pm] presentation by local organisation (George Tsouloupas):
• where and how does EasyBuild fit in with local needs?
• current activities with EasyBuild
• wishlist
• [12.00pm-12.30pm] presentation by Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Alan O'Cais):
• where and how does EasyBuild fit in with needs of JSC?
• current activities with EasyBuild
• [lunch]
• [2.00pm(?)] technical discussion on EasyBuild
• open issues relevant to the attendees, future directions
• [5pm-6pm] video conference presentation (Adam De Coninck, NVIDIA) confirmed [slides (PDF)]
• GPGPU toolbox for sysadmins and user support teams
• building CUDA software

Tuesday [10am-6pm]

• hackathon kick-off
• hands-on: getting started
• focus on EasyBuild support for accelerators and local interests
• GPGPU application notes (NVIDIA)

Wednesday [10am-6pm]

• hackathon (continued)