8th EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• event announcement: http://scicore.unibas.ch/events/easybuild-workshop-and-hackathon/
• date: Monday February 9th - Wednesday February 11th 2015
• venue: Biozentrum, University of Basel
  • room: 13th floor Lounge, Biozentrum Annex
  • address: Klingelbergstrasse 61, Basel, Switzerland (http://www.biozentrum.unibas.ch/directions/)
  • the Biozentrum Annex is opposite to the main entrance of Biozentrum (across the street)

Attendees

For practical reasons, the number of participants is limited.

Please contact Pablo Escobar ([email protected]) and Thierry Sengstag ([email protected]) to register.

Registration is closed, all seats are taken!

list of confirmed attendees (26):

• Konstantin Arnold (University of Basel - sciCORE, Switzerland)
• Urban Borstnik (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Joho Bruno (Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Art, Switzerland)
• Pablo Escobar (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, UniBas, sciCORE; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Petar Forai (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Samuel Fux (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)
• Markus Geimer (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Fotis Georgatos (National Technical University of Athens, Greece; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Eric Gregory (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Danilo Guerrera (University of Basel, Departement Mathematik & Informatik, Switzerland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Martin Jacquot (University of Basel - sciCORE, Switzerland)
• Marc Litherland (Novartis, Switzerland)
• Adam Mazur (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• Robert McLay (Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC), US; Lmod developer)
• Riccardo Murri (University of Zurich)
• Alan O'Cais (Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Germany; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Guilherme Peretti Pezzi (CSCS, Switzerland)
• Georg Rath (Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austria; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Tim Robinson (CSCS, Switzerland)
• Thierry Sengstag (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, University of Basel, sciCORE)
• Heinz Stockinger (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics)
• Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer)
• Florian Topf (EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Ivan Topolsky (Vital-IT, Lausanne, Switzerland)
• Thomas Wuest (ETH Zürich, Switzerland)

Topics

Attendees are free to work on what they want, but a couple of topics of interest are typically attached to each hackathon. The intention is to have discussions on these topics, and that some attendees work on these issues:

• improve integration between Lmod and EasyBuild (w/ Robert McLay, main Lmod developer)
• how we can further improve/automate testing of and contributing back to EasyBuild

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

Monday February 9th 2015

• 10am - 11.30am: Introduction to EasyBuild (Kenneth Hoste) [slides]
• 11.30am - 12.30pm: EasyBuild site presentations: setup, usage, ... [slides]
  • HPC-UGent, Belgium (Kenneth Hoste)
  • Jülich Supercomputer Centre, Germany (Alan O'Cais)
  • Vienna Biocenter, Austria (Petar Forai)
  • sciCORE/University of Basel, Switzerland (Pablo Escobar)
• 12.30pm - 2pm: lunch
• 2pm - 3pm: Introduction to Lmod (Robert McLay) [slides]
• 3pm - 4pm: EasyBuild/Lmod as tools to harmonize software stacks across HPC sites (open discussion)
  • HPCBIOS: Getting Your Software, Users & Documentation in Sync - Definition of Common Environment for HPC Platforms and Beyond (Fotis Georgatos)
  • see also https://archive.fosdem.org/2014/schedule/event/hpc_devroom_hpcbios/
• 4pm - 4.30pm: Understanding and writing easyconfigs (Kenneth Hoste) [slides]
• 4.30pm - 5.30pm: Getting started with EasyBuild and Lmod (hands-on installation & configuration)

Tuesday February 10th 2015

• 9am -10am: Introduction to XALT and TACC Stats (Robert McLay)
• 10.30am - 11am: hackathon kickoff: who does what roundtable?
• 11am - 12.30pm: hackathon
  • free hands-on work with EasyBuild/Lmod, with support from Kenneth, Jens, Pablo, Fotis, Robert
• 12.30pm - 2pm: lunch
• 2pm - 2.30pm: EasyBuild on Cray (Petar Forai)
• 2.30pm - 5.30pm: hackathon (continued)
  • free hands-on work with EasyBuild/Lmod, with support from Kenneth, Jens, Pablo, Fotis, Robert

Wednesday February 11th 2015

• 9am - 9.30am: Contributing back to EasyBuild (Kenneth Hoste)
• 9.30am: hackathon (continued)
  • free hands-on work with EasyBuild/Lmod, with support from Kenneth, Jens, Pablo, Fotis, Robert
• 12.30pm - 2pm: lunch
• 2pm - 2.30pm: Writing easyblocks: the basics (Kenneth Hoste) [slides]
• 2.30pm - 5.30pm: hackathon (continued)
  • free hands-on work with EasyBuild/Lmod, with support from Kenneth, Jens, Pablo, Fotis, Robert

Notes

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