Dear EasyBuilders, we're happy to share that we have confirmed the dates & location for the 3rd EasyBuild User Meeting early next year...
location: Amsterdam (Netherlands), co-organised by HPC-UGent & SURFsara dates: Tue Jan 30th - Thu Feb 1st 2018 (*) attendance is free, but registration is required (will be available soon) The overall format of the EasyBuild User Meetings is to have a 50-50 split between presentations & hands-on sessions, where presentations cover a variety of topics that are (loosely) related to EasyBuild, and the hands-on sessions allow you to work on aspects of EasyBuild you care about, with the help from other attendees, including EasyBuild developers & maintainers. As such, this event is intended for people who are already somewhat familiar with EasyBuild. You do *not* need to be an EasyBuild expert, but there will not be an EasyBuild introductory talk either. If you have used EasyBuild before to install software, and if you (roughly) know of the EasyBuild terminology (easyconfigs, easyblocks, toolchains, ...), then this event is intended for you. The agenda is still being planned, but we hope to have talks on: * EasyBuild: past, present & future (Kenneth Hoste, HPC-UGent) [confirmed] * module tools like Lmod & Tcl environment modules * site presentations by attendees on how they integrate EasyBuild in their workflow * confirmed: SURFsara (John Donners) * Singularity, CVMFS, Spack, Nix/Guix for HPC, ... The wiki page on the 3rd EasyBuild User Meeting at [ https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/3rd-EasyBuild-User-Meeting | https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/3rd-EasyBuild-User-Meeting ] will be updated as more information becomes available. Feel free to contact us for more information. regards, Kenneth (HPC-UGent, [email protected] ) John (SURFsara, [email protected] ) (*) We have deliberately planned this event shortly before the FOSDEM'18 open source meeting [2] in Brussels the weekend after, to allow attendees to combine both events easily. There will be an HPC devroom at FOSDEM'18, talk proposals can be submitted until Friday Nov 24th [3]. [1] [ https://www.ugent.be/hpc/en | https://www.ugent.be/hpc/en ] [2] [ https://www.surf.nl/en/about-surf/subsidiaries/surfsara/ | https://www.surf.nl/en/about-surf/subsidiaries/surfsara/ ] [3] [ https://fosdem.org/2018/ | https://fosdem.org/2018/ ] [4] [ https://hpc-bigdata-fosdem18.github.io/ | https://hpc-bigdata-fosdem18.github.io/ ]
