EESSI Community Meeting (Sept'22, Amsterdam)

Practical info

• dates: Wed-Fri 14-16 Sept'22
• in conjunction with CernVM workshop @ Nikhef (Mon-Tue 12-13 Sept'22)
• venue: "Polderzaal" at Cafe-Restaurant Polder (Google Maps), sponsored by SURF
• registration (closed since Fri 9 Sept'22)
• Slack channel: community-meeting-2022 in EESSI Slack
• YouTube playlist with recorded talks

Agenda

(subject to changes)

We envision a mix of presentations, experience reports, demos, and hands-on sessions and/or hackathons related to the EESSI project.

If you would like to give a talk or host a session, please let us know via the EESSI Slack!

Wed 14 Sept 2022

• [10:00-13:00] Welcome session
  • [10:00-10:30] Walk-in, coffee
  • [10:30-12:00] Round table discussion (not live-streamed!)
• [12:00-13:00] Lunch
• [13:00-15:00] Presentations on EESSI
  • [13:00-13:30] Introduction to EESSI (Caspar) [slides - recording]
  • [13:30-14:00] Hands-on: how to use EESSI (Kenneth) [slides - recording]
  • [14:00-14:30] EESSI use cases (Kenneth) [(slides - recording]
  • [14:30-15:00] EESSI for sysadmins (Thomas) [slides - recording]
• [15:00-15:30] Coffee break
• [15:30-17:00] Presentations on EESSI (continued)
  • [15:30-16:00] Hands-on: installing EESSI (Thomas/Kenneth)
  • [16:00-16:45] ComputeCanada site talk (Bart Oldeman, remote) [slides - recording]
  • [16:45-17:15] Magic Castle (Felix-Antoine Fortin, remote) [slides - recording]
• [19:00-...] Group dinner @ Saravanaa Bhavan (sponsored by Dell Technologies)
  • address: Stadhouderskade 123-124, Amsterdam

Thu 15 Sept 2022

• [09:30-12:00] More focused presentations on aspects of EESSI
  • [09:30-10:00] EESSI behind the scenes: compat layer (Bob) [slides - recording]
  • [10:00-10:30] EESSI behind the scenes: software layer (Kenneth) [slides - recording]
  • [10:30-11:00] Coffee break
  • [11:00-11:30] EESSI behind the scenes: infrastructure (Terje) [slides - recording]
  • [11:30-12:00] Status on RISC-V support (Kenneth) [slides - recording]
• [12:00-13:00] Lunch
• [13:00-14:00] Discussions/hands-on sessions/hackathon
• [14:00-14:30] Status on GPU support (Alan) [slides - recording]
• [14:30-15:00] Status on build-and-deploy bot (Thomas) [slides - recording]
• [15:00-15:30] Coffee break
• [15:30-17:00] Discussions/hands-on sessions/hackathon (continued)
  • Hands-on with GPUs (Alan)
  • Hands-on with bot (Thomas/Kenneth)
• [19:00-...] Group dinner @ Italia Oggi (sponsored by HPC-UGent)
  • address: Binnen Bantammerstraat 11, Amsterdam

Fri 16 Sept 2022

• [09:30-12:00] Presentations on future work
  • [09:30-10:00] Testing in software layer (Caspar) [slides - recording]
  • [10:00-10:30] MultiXscale project (Alan) [slides - recording]
  • [10:30-11:00] Coffee break
  • [11:00-11:30] Short-term future work (Kenneth) [slides - recording]
• [11:30-12:00] Discussion: future management structure of EESSI (Alan) [slides - recording]
• [12:00-13:00] Lunch
• [13:00-14:00] Site reports [recording]
  • NESSI (Thomas) [slides]
  • NLPL (Stephan) [slides]
  • HPCNow! (Danilo) [slides]
  • Azure (Hugo) [slides]
• [14:00-14:30] Discussion: what would make or break EESSI for your site? (notes - recording)
• [14:30-15:45] Discussions/hands-on sessions/hackathon
  • Hands-on with GPU support (Alan)
  • Hands-on with bot (Thomas/Kenneth)
  • Hands-on with software testing (Caspar)
• We need to leave the room by 16:00!