1st EasyBuild User Meeting

Concept

The EasyBuild User Meeting is an open and highly interactive event that provides a great opportunity to meet fellow EasyBuild enthusiasts, discuss related topics and learn about new aspects of the tool.

It is intended for people that are already familiar with EasyBuild, ranging from occasional users to EasyBuild core developers and experts, and topics will be less introductory in nature than during EasyBuild hackathons/workshops that have been organised in the past.

The program includes presentations by both EasyBuild users and developers, next to hands-on sessions.

The presentations will cover a wide variety of EasyBuild related topics, including how EasyBuild has been integrated into existing infrastructure, how it can be combined with other tools, (new) EasyBuild features that are considered particularly useful, or other tools that are somehow (loosely) related to EasyBuild and could be of interest to attendees.

The hands-on sessions are intended for becoming more familiar with the practical aspects of EasyBuild, resolving problems with the help of others, and/or working together to further enhance EasyBuild. Participants are expected to decide for themselves what they work on during the hands-on sessions.

Practical information

• date: Wed-Fri Jan 27th-29th 2016
  • week before FOSDEM'16, see https://fosdem.org/2016
• venue: ICT Department of Ghent University - Ghent, Belgium
  • see http://www.ugent.be/hpc/en/contact
  • hotel recommendation: http://www.nh-hotels.com/hotel/nh-gent-sint-pieters
• attendance is free of charge, but registration is required
  • http://webapps.ugent.be/eventManager/events/FirstEasyBuildUserMeeting
• questions? contact kenneth.hoste@ugent.be
• live stream: http://icto.ugent.be/nl/node/1451
  • watch the presentations remotely, live!
  • see agenda below for planned presentations
• YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLqxhJj6bcnY9g4vD3wjeLp56lUg9EE53b

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

all times a Central European Time (CET)

Wednesday January 27th 2016

• [09.00am - 10.00am] welcome & coffee
• [10.00am - 11.00am] EasyBuild: past, present and future (Kenneth Hoste, HPC-UGent)
  • slides - (no video recording :()
• [11.00am - 11.30am] Site presentation: JSC (Alan O'Cais, JSC)
  • slides - video recording
• [11.30am - 6pm] hands-on sessions + lunch

Thursday January 28th 2016

• [09.00am - 09.30am] Why I like Lmod, and you should too (Kenneth Hoste, HPC-UGent)
  • slides - video recording (starts at 00:00)
• [09.30am - 10.00am] Lmod: recent developments (Robert McLay, TACC)
  • slides - video recording (starts at 54:00)
• [10.00am - 10.30am] Site presentation: IT4Innovations (Lumír Jasiok, IT4Innovations)
  • slides - video recording
• [10.30am - 2pm] hands-on sessions + lunch
• [2pm - 3pm] Isolating builds and packaging using containers (Robert Schmidt, OHRI) [REMOTE]
  • http://reveal.ayr.ca/eb-usermeeting/#/
  • video recording
• [3pm - 6pm] hands-on session
• [7pm] group dinner @ Het Pand (Onderbergen 1, http://www.ugent.be/het-pand/nl/restaurant/contact)

Friday January 29th 2016

• [09.00am - 09.30am] XALT: a job level tracker and census taker (Robert McLay)
  • slides - video recording
• [9.30am - 10.00am] How to stalk the users of your cluster using OGRT (Georg Rath, IMBA)
  • slides - http://goo.gl/zbvChr - video recording
• [10.00am - 10.30am] Site presentation: CSCS (Guilherme Peretti Pezzi, CSCS)
  • slides
• [10am - 5pm] hands-on sessions + lunch

Attendees

list of registered attendees (subject to change):

• Damian Alvarez (JSC, Germany; EasyBuild contributor)
• Juan Cabrera (UCL)
• Petar Forai (IMP/IMBA, Austria; EasyBuild contributor)
• Damien François (UCL, Belgium)
• Fotis Georgatos (Illumina, UK; EasyBuild contributor)
• Balázs Hajgató (VUB, Brussels; EasyBuild contributor)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild lead developer and release manager)
• Lumír Jasiok (IT4Innovations, Czech Republic; EasyBuild contributor)
• Andreas Karner (IMP/IMBA, Austria)
• Fokko Masselink (Shell, The Netherlands; EasyBuild contributor)
• Robert McLay (TACC, USA; Lmod & XALT (co-)developer)
• Filip Nollet (Bayer CropScience, Belgium)
• Alan O'Cais (JSC, Germany; EasyBuild contributor)
• Guilherme Peretti Pezzi (CSCS, Switzerland; EasyBuild contributor)
• Ward Poelmans (Hercules foundation/HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild contributor)
• Georg Rath (IMP/IMBA, Austria)
• Tom Vander Aa (IMEC, Belgium)
• Bart Verleye (ex-NeSI/VUB; EasyBuild contributor)
• Kenneth Waegeman (HPC-UGent, Belgium)