I'm Kenneth Hoste, a.k.a. 'boegel', a computer scientist and FOSS enthusiast from Belgium. I have a Masters (2005) and PhD (2010) in Computer Science from Ghent University. My dissertation topic was "Analysis, Estimation and Optimization of Computer System Performance Using Machine Learning".
Since October 2010, I'm a member of the HPC team at Ghent University (Belgium) where I am mainly responsible for user support & training. As a part of my job, I am also the lead developer and release manager of EasyBuild, a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems.
In my free time, I am a family guy and a fan of loud music, frequently attending gigs and festivals.
I enjoy helping people & sharing his expertise, and like joking around. I have a weak spot for stickers and beer.
Things I don't like include CMake, Bazel, TensorFlow, C++, ...
- Twitter:
@kehoste - email:
kenneth.hoste@ugent.be
- EasyBuild: A software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on HPC systems
- lead developer & release manager (BDFL, if you will)
- archspec: A library for detecting, labeling, and reasoning about microarchitectures
- co-developer
- EESSI: European Environment for Scientific Software Installations
- active project partner
- PyGHee (pronounced as "piggy") is the GitHub Event Executor, a Python library to facilitate creating a GitHub App implemented in Python to process events from GitHub
- creator and developer
Projects I worked on during my PhD research:
- COLE: Compiler Optimization Level Exploration
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/boegel/COLE
- see CGO'08 paper: DOI, PDF, slides
- MICA:
- GitHub repo: https://github.com/boegel/MICA
- see IEEE Micro Hot Tutorials (2007): DOI, PDF
(some day I'll make this a complete list of talks I've given...)
- date: June 18th 2020
- venue: HPC Knowledge Meeting - Barcelona (Spain) (virtual)
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Jan 29th 2020
- venue: 5th EasyBuild User Meeting - Barcelona (Spain)
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Jan 30th 2019
- venue: 4th EasyBuild User Meeting - UCL, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
In 2018, I gave 3 talks in a single weekend at FOSDEM'18 in Brussels, next to co-organizing a FOSDEM devroom and 3-day EasyBuild meetup the week beforre.
I highly recommend this experience to anyone (just kidding, please don't do this, it was nuts).
This is probably the talk I'm most proud of so far (and I may never top it).
Born out of years of frustration to get scientific software installed...
- date: Feb 3rd 2018
- venue: FOSDEM'18 (Package Management devroom)
- FOSDEM page
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Feb 3rd 2018
- venue: FOSDEM'18 (Testing & Automation devroom)
- FOSDEM page
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Feb 3rd 2018
- venue: FOSDEM'18 (HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom)
- FOSDEM page
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Jan 30th 2018
- venue: 3rd EasyBuild User Meeting - SURFsara, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Feb 8th 2017
- venue: 2nd EasyBuild User Meeting - Forschungszentrum Jülich (Germany)
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
- date: Jan 27th 2016
- venue: 1st EasyBuild User Meeting - Ghent University (Belgium)
- slides
- date: Jan 28th 2016
- venue: 1st EasyBuild User Meeting - Ghent University (Belgium)
- slides
- recording (YouTube)
Here are some of the events I organized together with others:
- 5th EasyBuild User Meeting (2020 - Barcelona, Spain)
- HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'20 (2020 - Brussels, Belgium)
- 4th EasyBuild User Meeting (2019 - Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium)
- HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'19 (2019 - Brussels, Belgium)
- 3rd EasyBuild User Meeting (2018 - Amsterdam, Netherlands)
- HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'18 (2018 - Brussels, Belgium)
- 2nd EasyBuild User Meeting (2017 - Jülich, Germany)
- HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom at FOSDEM'17 (2017 - Brussels, Belgium)