The International Post-Exascale Project (InPEx) is a pioneering initiative bringing together the brightest minds in the field of high-performance computing, from researchers and engineers to policy organizations and funding bodies. It’s workshops, accompanied by workgroups of experts dedicated on critical topics for Exascale, are designed to foster international collaboration and co-design, essential in the journey towards and beyond Exascale computing.
The technical manager of MultiXscale (AlanO’Cais) was invited to participate in the 2024 InPEx Workshop, and in particular contributed to the “Software production and management” topic of the workshop. Lively discussions were held as part of that topic with a general agreement that creating a software installation description format could be very useful to encourage collaboration between the various software installation tools being used “in the wild” (at this particular workshop EasyBuild/EESSI, Spack and Guix were represented).
