11th EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• date: Thursday March 24th - Friday March 25th 2016
  • following the HPC Advisory Council workshop, see http://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2016/swiss-workshop/
• venue: CSCS - Lugano (Switzerland), see http://www.cscs.ch/about/visitor_information/index.html

Topics

Attendees are free to work on what they want, but a couple of topics of interest are typically attached to each hackathon. The intention is to have discussions on these topics, and that some attendees work on these issues:

• getting started with EasyBuild
• usage of EasyBuild by end users
• EasyBuild on Cray systems

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

Thursday March 24h 2016

• 9:30am - 10am: EasyBuild introduction (Kenneth Hoste)
  • http://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_HPCAC_intro_20160323.pdf
  • http://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_HPCAC_start_20160323.pdf
• 10am - 10:45am: Overview of new features (Kenneth Hoste)
  • http://easybuild.readthedocs.org/en/latest/Release_notes.html
• 10:45am - 11am: Coffee Break
• 11am - 11:30pm: Improvements on the Cray support (Petar Forai)
  • http://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_hackathon_CSCS_Cray-update_20160326.pdf
• 11:30am - 12pm: CSCS Use Case: EB & Continuous Integration (Guilherme Peretti Pezzi)
  • http://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_hackathon_CSCS-site-update_20160326.pdf
• 12pm - 1pm: lunch
• 1pm - 2:45pm: EasyBuild hackathon (hands-on)
  • https://github.com/eth-cscs/tools/issues/4
• 2:45pm - 3pm: Coffee Break
• 3pm - 5pm: EasyBuild hackathon (hands-on)

Friday March 25th 2016

• 9:30am - 10:45am: EasyBuild hackathon (hands-on)
• 10:45am - 11am: Coffee Break
• 11am - 12pm: EasyBuild hackathon (hands-on)
• 12pm - 1pm: lunch
• 1pm - 2:45pm: EasyBuild hackathon (hands-on)
• 2:45pm - 3pm: Coffee Break
• 3pm - 5pm: EasyBuild hackathon (hands-on)

Attendees

For practical reasons, the number of participants is limited.

Registration via http://www.cscs.ch/events/event_detail/index.html?tx_seminars_pi1%5BshowUid%5D=131 .

list of confirmed attendees (subject to change):

• Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria; EasyBuild contributor)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Guilherme Peretti Pezzi (CSCS, Switzerland; EasyBuild contributor)

Notes

(none yet)