Date: 15 November from 14h to 15h30 – Location: Online
About the talk:
What if you could avoid having to install a broad range of scientific software from scratch on every HPC cluster, laptop, or cloud instance you use or maintain, without compromising on performance?
Installing scientific software for supercomputers is known to be a tedious and time-consuming task. Especially as the HPC user community becomes more diverse, computational science expands rapidly, and the diversity of system architectures increases, the application software stack continues to deepen. Simultaneously, we see a surge in interest in cloud computing for scientific computing. Delivering optimised software installations and providing access to these installations in a reliable, user-friendly, and reproducible way is a highly non-trivial task that affects application developers, HPC user support teams, and the users themselves.
This webinar aims to address these challenges by providing the attendees with the knowledge to stream optimised scientific software installations. For this, we will introduce the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI), a collaboration between various European HPC sites & industry partners, with the common goal of creating a shared repository of scientific software installations that can be used on a variety of systems, regardless of which flavor/version of Linux distribution or processor architecture is used, or whether it’s a full size HPC cluster, a cloud environment, or a personal workstation.
We will cover the design and usage EESSI, different ways to accessing EESSI, how to add software to EESSI, and highlight some more advanced features including support for NVIDIA GPUs and facilitating the deployment of pre-release builds of scientific software. We will also show how to engage with the community and contribute to the project.
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