This week, we celebrate the International Women’s Day 2025 (8 March) by featuring the amazing women involved in our MultiXscale Center of Excellence. They explain, in their own words, their roles and contributions to the project. Discover our cohort of professional women here below and using the hashtag #WomenAtMultiXscaleCoE on our social media profiles: Facebook, X, LinkedIn and Bluesky.
A couple of weeks ago the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) announced the consortium that will develop the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP). This ambitious effort will deliver a ‘one-stop shop’ for researchers using the EuroHPC supercomputers, as well as the upcoming EuroHPC AI Factories and quantum computers, built with open source software. Ghent University is part of this consortium to integrate EESSI into the EuroHPC Federation Platform as common software stack. Henrik Nortamo (CSC), the technical lead of the EFP consortium, gave an excellent 20-minute talk on EFP last weekend in the 10th HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM’25 in Brussels. Slides and recording of the talk are available here. The EFP consortium¶ The consortium that will develop the EuroHPC Federation Platform consists of: A productive kickoff meeting was held on 16+17 January 2025 in Helsinki, Finland. Each of the components of the federated platform were presented by and to the consortium partners, and practical aspects of executing the planned work in the coming months and years were discussed. * Read full article here
EESSI (European Environment for Scientific Software Installations) has been used in an ESiWACE CoE webinar on Extrae + Paraver. ESiWACE3 CoE and the National Competence Center for HPC in Austria organized the training event “Extrae and Paraver: Profiling Weather and Climate Applications” on January 27, 2025, as part of the CASTIEL2 Training Sprint. The course focused on the BSC performance analysis tools (widely used in POP3 CoE), which are a set of different tools to support developers in the evaluation, tuning, and optimization of their codes. EESSI provided the installations of such tools, in a collaboration between MultiXscale CoE and ESiWACE CoE.
NRIS Talks videos are already available on the YouTube channel. NRIS (Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services) is organizing webinars as part of it’s outreach program NRIS Talks. This webinar aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how to build software on top of the scientific software stack provided by the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI). About the Webinar: We explain and demonstrate how everyone can easily build and install software on top of EESSI. While EESSI already provides ~ 500 software packages a specific software you need may not be available through EESSI yet. The webinar shows how to use EasyBuild to build (scientific) software on top of EESSI for all users, for a specific project account or individual users.
MultiXscale CoE will gather top European experts in High-Performance Computing (HPC) from academic and industrial sectors across Europe during its General Assembly (GA), to be carried out from 23rd to 24th January 2025 after the HiPEAC event in Barcelona (Spain), where the completed activities and future work in the 3rd year of the project will be discussed in this two-days meeting. Previously to their GA, MultiXscale experts will be involved in several sessions during the HiPEAC conference in Barcelona, the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general-purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. These sessions are: Funded for a period of four years, and coordinated by the National Institute of Chemistry based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, MultiXscale is a collaborative project between members of the CECAM network and EESSI that will allow domain scientists to take advantage of the computational resources offered by EuroHPC JU. It gathers the following 13 partners joining from the academic and industrial sectors across Europe: National Institute of Chemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, University of Stuttgart, University of Barcelona, SURF BV, University of Groningen, Ghent University, University of Bergen, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Sorbonne University, HPCNow!, Leonardo and the Italian Institute of Technology. *Download press release in pdf here
“Keeping it Simple, Keeping it #EESSI: Updates from 2023-2024″ by Pedro Santos Neves at SURF Advanced Computing User Day, on 12 December 2024, in the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht. Abstract: EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, is a collaborative project to build a shared scientific software stack for #HPC systems and beyond. In this session we will give a brief overview of EESSI and highlight recent developments for HPC users and system administrators. On top of the ever increasing number of supported applications in the software stack, there is a lot of exciting news that make EESSI even more versatile and simple to use. Extending the existing stack and customizing it for the needs of local HPC sites is now a breeze with the new EESSI-extend functionality. Similarly, scientific software developers can use the new dev.eessi.io repository to build, test, and deploy their development builds among a wide range of CPU architectures. Last but not least, the new EESSI CI workflows take care of many CI setup headaches by making the entire software stack available from the start in GitHub and GitLab. More information available here: https://pretalx.surf.nl/acud-2024/talk/SUCPTY/
Find our new MultiXscale social media corporate profile on Bluesky here, for new updates about our CoE: https://bsky.app/profile/multixscale.bsky.social
European Centres of Excellence showcase female talent and leadership in HPC at the upcoming HiPEAC conference At the upcoming HiPEAC25 conference, the European Centres of Excellence (CoEs) will host two special workshops to delve into the world of HPC while appraising the contributions of women experts in the field. Funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the CoEs are initiatives committed to developing and optimizing advanced application codes in light of the upcoming exascale transition to tackle critical scientific and societal challenges. Part of their mission is also to build a more inclusive community in HPC by showcasing the expertise of women specialists and professionals from marginalized communities. The workshops will gather experts from a variety of projects, with representatives from all the CoEs and relevant Euro-HPC initiatives. The speakers will present on a range of topics, such as computer architecture, programming models, compilers, and operating systems. Explore the workshops below: From petascale to exascale and beyond: the Centres of Excellence challengeMon, January 20th10:00 – 17:30Room: Extra 3 Tackling software exascale challenges: the Centres of Excellence in High Performance Computing perspectiveWed, January 22nd10:00 – 17:30Room: 9 Driving diversity and excellence in HPC After two decades of connecting and inspiring the HPC community, HiPEAC returns to Barcelona for its 20th edition. As the premier European forum bridging industry and academia in computing systems, HiPEAC gathers professionals from industry, research, and policy to promote R&D in computer architecture and computing systems in Europe. The initiative proposed by the European CoEs addresses ongoing gender disparities in HPC, where women remain underrepresented, particularly as keynote speakers at conferences. By normalizing women’s voices in the field, the CoEs aim to inspire and empower the next generation of women in STEM.Further information about the HiPEAC25 conference is available on the HiPEAC website.
Bob Dröge presented EESSI (European Environment for Scientific Software Installations) in the Dutch Federated Computing and Data workshop, organized by EuroCC Netherlands and SURF’s Innovation department.
NRIS (Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services) is organizing webinars as part of it’s outreach program NRIS Talks. Join us for an enlighting webinar on How to build on top of EESSI using EasyBuild. This webinar aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how to build software on top of the scientific software stack provided by the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI). Webinar Details: About the Webinar: We will explain and demonstrate how everyone can easily build and install software on top of EESSI. While EESSI already provides ~ 500 software packages a specific software you need may not be available through EESSI yet. The webinar will show how to use EasyBuild to build (scientific) software on top of EESSI for all users, for a specific project account or individual users. More information and registration here
