EasyBuild: building software with ease

EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework that allows you to manage (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems in an efficient way.

A full list of supported software packages is available here.

Latest news

2024-09-22 - EasyBuild v4.9.4 is available; see also the release notes
2024-01-15 - 9th EasyBuild User Meeting: 23-25 April 2024 in Umeå (Sweden)
2022-11-14 - New EasyBuild logo!
2022-11-14 - EasyBuild: into a new decade (slides - recording)
2022-09-12 - EESSI Community Meeting (14-16 Sept 2022, Amsterdam)
2022-05-29 - EasyBuild tutorial at ISC'22
2022-02-07 - LUMI's primary software installation tool introduced
2021-01-25 - EasyBuild has been selected as the primary software installation tool for LUMI!

Documentation

Read the fine manual (RTFM!) at https://docs.easybuild.io.

Getting started

The recommended way of installing EasyBuild is via pip. You should configure EasyBuild to behave as you prefer, subsequently.

That is all that is needed to get started with installing (scientific) software with ease. Take a look at the typical workflow example in the EasyBuild documentation that shows how to make EasyBuild build and install WRF with a single command.

Quick demo for the impatient

After installing EasyBuild, you can build and install HPL on top of a compiler toolchain that consists of open source components (GCC, OpenMPI, etc.) by running the following commands:

$ module load EasyBuild
$ export EASYBUILD_PREFIX=/tmp/$USER  # example installation prefix
$ eb HPL-2.3-foss-2019b.eb --robot

This should install a module file for HPL which you can load to start using it.

$ export MODULEPATH=$EASYBUILD_PREFIX/modules/all:$MODULEPATH
$ module load HPL

For more information on using EasyBuild, see the EasyBuild documentation.

Contact info

You can get in contact with the EasyBuild community in different ways:

Mailing list

An EasyBuild mailinglist easybuild@lists.ugent.be is available to subscribe to.

This list is used by both users and developers of EasyBuild, so if you have any questions or suggestions, you can post them there.

Only members can post to this mailinglist. To request membership, see https://lists.ugent.be/wws/info/easybuild.

Slack

Contact the EasyBuild community via Slack: https://easybuild.slack.com,
self-request an invite via https://easybuild.io/join-slack.

Twitter/X

EasyBuild also has a Twitter/X feed: @easy_build.

Mastodon (Fediverse)

EasyBuild is also part of the Fediverse: mast.hpc.social/@easybuild

License

EasyBuild is developed by the High-Performance Computing team at Ghent University together with the members of the EasyBuild community, and is made available under the GNU General Public License (GPL) version 2.

Acknowledgements

EasyBuild was created with support of Ghent University, the Flemish Supercomputer Centre (VSC), the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO) and the Department of Economy, Science and Innovation (EWI).