3rd easybuild hackathon
group picture during 3rd EasyBuild hackathon @ Nicosia, Cyprus
(left to right: Mohamed, Stelios, Dina, Jens W., Thekla, Eleftherios, Alan, Alexander, George T., Jens T., Kenneth, Fotis, George F.)
- time: Mon-Wed Mar 11-13 2013, 10am-6pm (Nicosia time)
- location: Nicosia, Cyprus
- notes: organised by LinkSCEEM
- Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild developer and release manager)
- Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, EasyBuild developer)
- Fotis Georgatos (University of Luxembourg, HPC sysadmin and active contributor)
- Jens Wiegand (The Cyprus Institute)
- Stelios Erotokritou (The Cyprus Institute)
- Mohamed Gafaar (Bibliotheca Alexandrina)
- Ioannis Kirmitzoglou (University of Cyprus)
- Thekla Loizou (The Cyprus Institute)
- Dina Mahmoud Ibrahim (Cairo University)
- Alan O'Cais (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
- Alexander Schnurpfeil (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)
- George Tsouloupas (The Cyprus Institute)
- Ioanna Kalvari (University of Cyprus)
- Demetris Charalambous (Cyprus Meteorological Service)
- George Fanourgakis (The Cyprus Institute)
- Nicolas ?? (??) FIXME
- Konstantinos Stergiopoulos (The Cyprus Institute) (excused)
A set of training exercises to get familiar with EasyBuild is available here.
- [10am] welcome by local organizers (Jens Wiegand)
- mention practical arrangements for coming days
- [10.15am] introduction round: who's who (brief, informal)
- [10.30am-11.30am] EasyBuild presentation (Kenneth Hoste, Jens Timmerman) [slides (PDF)]
- intent is to train attendees on making optimal use of EasyBUild
- introduction to purpose of EasyBuild and its design
- example use cases
- focus on modularity: easyblocks and compiler toolchains
- getting started: writing easyconfigs; writing easyblocks; extending compiler toolchain support
- contributing back
- [11.30am-12.00pm] presentation by local organisation (George Tsouloupas) [slides (PDF)]
- where and how does EasyBuild fit in with local needs?
- current activities with EasyBuild
- wishlist
- [12.00pm-12.30pm] presentation by Jülich Supercomputing Centre (Alan O'Cais):
- where and how does EasyBuild fit in with needs of JSC?
- current activities with EasyBuild
- [lunch]
- [2.00pm(?)] technical discussion on EasyBuild
- open issues relevant to the attendees, future directions
- [5pm-6pm] video conference presentation (Adam DeConinck, NVIDIA) [slides (PDF)]
- GPGPU toolbox for sysadmins and user support teams
- building CUDA software
- hackathon kick-off
- hands-on: getting started
- focus on EasyBuild support for accelerators and local interests
- GPGPU application notes (NVIDIA)
- hackathon (continued)