Re: [easybuild] "Streaming Optimised Scientific Software: an Introduction to EESSI" on Tue 5 Dec 2023 (14:30-16:30 CET, online)

[Kenneth Hoste]

Dear EasyBuilders,

Registration for this talk covering the EESSI project (https://eessi.io) 
in detail on Tue 5 Dec'23 is still open


https://event.ugent.be/registration/eurohpcncceessi202312


This event is organised in the context of the MultiXscale EuroHPC 
Centre-of-Excellence (https://www.multixscale.eu).



regards,

Kenneth

On 21/11/2023 09:33, Kenneth Hoste wrote:

Dear EasyBuilders,

On Tuesday 5 December 2023 (14:30-16:00 CET) there will be an online 
presentation on EESSI 
(https://eessi.io/ entitled "Streaming Optimised Scientific Software: an Introduction to EESSI", which is being organised in the context of the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence (https://www.multixscale.eu/ but open to anyone who's interested.



If you would like to attend this session, please register via:

     https://event.ugent.be/registration/eurohpcncceessi202312

(note: this is a different event from the "Best Practices for CernVM-FS 
in HPC" tutorial on Mon 4 Dec'23, see 
https://event.ugent.be/registration/cvmfshpc202312)



Have you ever wished that all the scientific software you use was 
available on all the resources you had access to, without having to go 
through the pain of getting them installed the way you want/need?


The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI, 
pronounced "easy") is a common stack of scientific software 
installations for HPC systems and beyond, including laptops, personal 
workstations and cloud infrastructure. In many ways it works like a 
streaming service for scientific software, instantly giving you the 
software you need, when you need it, and compiled to work efficiently 
for the architecture you have access to.


In this talk, we'll explain what EESSI is, how it is being designed, how 
to get access to it, and how to use it.
We'll give a number of demonstrations and also give access to a resource 
where you can try EESSI out for yourself.



Please help us promote this event, by sharing it with colleagues and 
friends, and/or posting this event announcement on appropriate channels.



regards,

Kenneth

Re: [easybuild] "Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC" online tutorial on Mon 4 Dec 2023 (13:30-17:00 CET)

[Kenneth Hoste]

Dear EasyBuilders,

It’s not too late to register for the online introductory tutorial on 
CernVM-FS (https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs) on Mon 4 Dec'23, but you better do 
it soon...


Over 150 people have registered so far!

  https://event.ugent.be/registration/cvmfshpc202312


This events is organised in the context of the MultiXscale EuroHPC 
Centre-of-Excellence (https://www.multixscale.eu).



regards,

Kenneth

On 13/11/2023 16:53, Kenneth Hoste wrote:

Dear EasyBuilders,

All 50 seats that were available initially for this event were filled in 
a couple of hours, we have added way more seats now, so if you tried to 
register earlier today but couldn’t, you can now try again!


regards,

Kenneth

On 13/11/2023 09:04, Kenneth Hoste wrote:

Dear EasyBuilders,

On Monday 4 December 2023 (13:30-17:00 CET) we are organising a 
half-day online introductory tutorial on CernVM-FS 
(https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs via Zoom, in collaboration with the CernVM-FS development team.


CernVM-FS, the CernVM File System (also known as CVMFS), is a file 
distribution service that is particularly well suited to distribute 
software installations across a large number of systems world-wide in 
an efficient way.


The focus of this tutorial is on explaining what CernVM-FS is, how to 
access existing CernVM-FS repositories (like EESSI, see 
https://eessi.io/docs and covering some aspects specific to using CernVM-FS on HPC systems.
It is intended for people with a background in HPC (system 
administrators, support team members, end users, etc.) who are new to 
CernVM-FS: no specific prior knowledge or experience with it is required.


High-level preliminary agenda (subject to minor changes):

- What is CernVM-FS?
- European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)
- Accessing a CernVM-FS repository
- Configuring CernVM-FS on HPC infrastructure
- Troubleshooting and debugging CernVM-FS
- Performance aspects of CernVM-FS
- Different storage backends for CernVM-FS
- Containers and CernVM-FS
- Getting started with CernVM-FS (from scratch)

If you would like to attend this tutorial, please register via:

 https://event.ugent.be/registration/cvmfshpc202312


Please help us promote this event, by sharing it with colleagues and 
friends, and/or posting this event announcement on appropriate channels.



regards,

Kenneth
on behalf of the tutorial organisers