5th EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• date: Wednesday Feb 19th - Friday Feb 21st 2014
• location: Jülich Supercomputer Centre (JSC), Germany
• notes: -

Attendees

In agreement with the organizers at JSC, attendance is limited for the hackathon sessions:

• max. 20 JSC attendees
• max. 5 non-JSC attendees (not including EasyBuild experts from HPC-UGent)

confirmed list of attendees:

• Stijn De Weirdt (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild creator)
• Petar Forai (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), Austria)
• Markus Geimer (Jülich Supercomputing Centre - FZJ)
• Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg, HPC sysadmin and active contributor)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Thekla Loizou (The Cyprus Institute)
• Bernd Mohr (Jülich Supercomputing Centre - FZJ, UNITE)
• Alan O'Cais (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
• Peter Philippen (Jülich Supercomputing Centre - FZJ)
• Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild developer)
• George Tsouloupas (The Cyprus Institute)
• Aaron Zauner (azet.org)

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

Wednesday Feb 19th 2014

• [10.30am] meeting between EasyBuild and Scalasca team (invitation only)
• [1.00pm] presentation: Introduction to EasyBuild (by Kenneth Hoste, EasyBuild - HPC-UGent)
• [2.00pm] hackathon setup
• getting EasyBuild installed
• getting started with EasyBuild
• [5.00pm] guided tour of JSC facilities

Thursday Feb 20th 2014

• [9am - 5pm] EasyBuild hackathon
• hands-on introduction to EasyBuild, with support from EasyBuild experts
• look into and resolve open issues with EasyBuild that are important for JSC systems
• work on open issues or software support you care about

Friday Feb 21st 2014

• [9am - 5pm] EasyBuild hackathon (continued)