Program - Practical info - Registration - Organisation - Contact

Introductory workshop to EasyBuild and EESSI,
held in conjunction with the 8th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'23).

Tutorial website: https://tutorial.easybuild.io/2023-eb-eessi-uk-workshop

Program

Please note that all times are in British Summer Time (BST, equivalent to UTC+1)!

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

Introduction to EasyBuild (incl. demos & hands-on)

• 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

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

Practical information

Dates: Thu+Fri 27+28 April 2023

Venue: Imperial College London (Drawing Room), 170's Queens Gate

Registration

To attend this EasyBuild/EESSI workshop, you must register. Seats are limited (20).

To register your attendance, please visit:

https://event.ugent.be/registration/ebuk202304

Updates and practical information will be sent via email to anyone who registered.

Registration will be open until Sunday 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.

Organisation

• 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 contact Jörg (j.sassmannshausen@imperial.ac.uk) and Kenneth (kenneth.hoste@ugent.be), or ask in the EasyBuild Slack (see https://easybuild.io/join-slack).