[NLPL Task Force (A)] Fwd: SORSE "software demo" talk on EESSI - Wed Nov 25th 2020 at 3pm UTC

[Stephan Oepen]

hi andrey,

i would encourage you to participate in the meeting below; i will too.

i am copying our infrastructure colleagues, just in case others might be
interested :-).

best, oe


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From: Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste at ugent.be>
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2020 at 11:12
Subject: SORSE "software demo" talk on EESSI - Wed Nov 25th 2020 at 3pm UTC
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Subject:        [sorsenews] SORSE - software demo next week
Date:   Wed, 18 Nov 2020 09:49:09 +0000
From:   Debbie Carter <D.J.Carter at bham.ac.uk>
Reply-To:       Debbie Carter <D.J.Carter at bham.ac.uk>
To:     sorsenews at listserv.dfn.de <sorsenews at listserv.dfn.de>



Dear all

The next SORSE event is a software demo taking place on *Wednesday 25^th
November, 15:00 – 16:00 UTC*.
Register via the web link below.

*European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI):*
What if there was a way to avoid having to install a broad range of
scientific software from scratch on every workstation, HPC cluster, or
cloud instance you use or maintain, without compromising on performance?

The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI,
pronounced as “easy”) is a brand new collaboration between different
European HPC sites & industry partners, with the common goal to set up a
shared repository of scientific software installations that can be used
on a variety of systems, regardless of the OS or processor architecture
of the client system, or whether it’s a full size HPC cluster, a cloud
environment or a personal workstation.

The concept is heavily inspired by the Compute Canada software stack,
and consists of 3 layers:

·a distributed filesystem layer leveraging the established CernVM-FS
technology;

·a compatibility layer using Gentoo Prefix to install a limited set of
“system” packages;

·a software layer hosting scientific software installations and the
required dependencies, which were built for different processor
architectures, and where archspec, EasyBuild and Lmod are leveraged;

We will present how the EESSI project grew out of a need for more
collaboration to tackle the challenges in the changing landscape of
scientific software and HPC system architectures. The project structure
will be explained in more detail, covering the motivation for the
layered approach and the choice of tools, as well as the lessons learned
from the work done by Compute Canada. The goals we have in mind and how
we plan to achieve them going forward will be outlined.

Finally, we will demonstrate the current pilot version of the project,
and give you a feeling of the potential impact.

For more information about the EESSI project:

·website: https://www.eessi-hpc.org <https://www.eessi-hpc.org>

·GitHub: https://github.com/EESSI <https://github.com/EESSI>

·documentation: https://eessi.github.io/docs <https://eessi.github.io/docs>

·Twitter: https://twitter.com/eessi_hpc <https://twitter.com/eessi_hpc>

https://sorse.github.io/programme/software-demos/event-028/
<https://sorse.github.io/programme/software-demos/event-028/>

Best wishes,

The SORSE Team

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