2024-12-12 –, Expedition
EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, is a collaborative project to build a shared scientific software stack for HPC systems and beyond. In this session we will give a brief overview of EESSI and highlight recent developments for HPC users and system administrators. On top of the ever increasing number of supported applications in the software stack, there is a lot of exciting news that make EESSI even more versatile and simple to use. Extending the existing stack and customizing it for the needs of local HPC sites is now a breeze with the new EESSI-extend functionality. Similarly, scientific software developers can use the new dev.eessi.io repository to build, test, and deploy their development builds among a wide range of CPU architectures. Last but not least, the new EESSI CI workflows take care of many CI setup headaches by making the entire software stack available from the start in GitHub and GitLab.
Check out the extensive documentation to quickly get started using EESSI!
EESSI is funded via participation in the EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence MultiXscale.
I work in HPC user support and development at the University of Groningen (RUG) HPC team. Through RUG, I am also involved in the EESSI project where I collaborate in support and development.
My background is in Evolutionary Biology and most of my research and work prior to my current role revolved around scientific software development in one way or another.