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An introduction to EESSI

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This is an introductory tutorial to EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, with a focus on employing it in the context of High-Performance Computing (HPC).

In this tutorial you will learn what EESSI is, how to get access to EESSI, how to customise EESSI, and how to use EESSI repositories on HPC infrastructure.

Recording

Once we have a recording of this tutorial available it will appear here.

Slides

Once we have slides for this tutorial available they will appear here.

Intended audience

This tutorial is intended for a general audience who are familiar with running software from the command line; no specific prior knowledge or experience is required.

We expect it to be most valuable to people who are interested in running scientific software on variety of compute infrastructures.

Prerequisites

  • Basic knowledge of Linux shell environment
  • Basic knowledge of Linux file systems
  • Familiarity with High-Performance Computing environments is a plus
  • Hands-on experience with running scientific software workloads is a plus

Practical information

Slack channel

Dedicated channel in EESSI Slack: #eessi-tutorial

Click here to join the EESSI Slack

MultiXscale

This tutorial was developed and organised in the context of the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence.

Funded by the European Union. This work has received funding from the European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (JU) and countries participating in the project under grant agreement No 101093169.

Contributors

  • Bob Dröge (University of Groningen, The Netherlands)
  • Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Alan O'Cais (University of Barcelona, Spain; CECAM)
  • Lara Peeters (Ghent University, Belgium)
  • Thomas Röblitz (University of Bergen, Norway)
  • Caspar van Leeuwen (SURF, The Netherlands)

Additional resources

  • TBD