9th EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• date: Monday May 4th - Tuesday May 5th 2015
• venue: CSC, Espoo, Finland, see https://www.csc.fi/contact-info
• in conjunction with the Nordic e-Infrastructure Conference (NeIC) see http://neic2015.nordforsk.org/
• organisers: Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent), Olli-Pekka Lehto (CSC.fi)

Attendees

For practical reasons, the number of participants is limited.

Please contact Kenneth Hoste (kenneth.hoste@ugent.be) or Olli-Pekka Lehto (olli-pekka.lehto@csc.fi) to register.

list of confirmed attendees:

• Luis Alves (CSC, Finland)
• Jani Heikkinen (CSC, Finland)
• Petar Forai (IMB, Austria; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Johan Guldmyr (CSC, Finland)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Dan Jonsson Johan (University of Tromsø, Norway)
• Olli-Pekka Lehto (CSC, Finland) excused
• Marco Passerini (CSC, Finland)
• Jarmo Pirhonen (CSC, Finland)
• Ari-Matti Saren (CSC, Finland)

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:

• Introduction to EasyBuild
• EasyBuild on Cray

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

The hackathon slots are intended to work on what attendees are most interested in, with support from the experts.

Monday May 4th 2015

• 10am - 12pm: Introduction to EasyBuild (and Lmod) (Kenneth Hoste)
  • incl. demos, Q&A
• 12pm - 1pm: lunch
• 1pm - 2pm: EasyBuild on Cray: current status & open problems (Petar Forai)
• 2pm - 3pm: Getting started with EasyBuild and Lmod: installation and configuration, basic usage (hands-on)
• 3pm - 5pm: hackathon

Tuesday May 5th 2015

• 9am - 12pm: hackathon (continued)
• 12pm - 1pm: lunch
• 1pm - 5pm: hackathon (continued)

Notes

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