diff --git a/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex b/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex index db0c8b3..4dfb273 100644 --- a/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex +++ b/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ What if you could avoid installing a broad range of scientific software from scratch on every -supercomputer, cloud instance, or laptop you use or maintain, without compromising on performance? +supercomputer, cloud instance, or laptop you use or maintain\ldots without compromising on performance? Installing scientific software is known to be a tedious and time-consuming task. The software stack continues to deepen as computational science expands rapidly, the diversity of system architectures @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ This tutorial aims to address these challenges by introducing (i) \emph{CernVM-FS}, a distributed read-only filesystem designed to efficiently \emph{stream} software installations on-demand, and (ii) the \emph{European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)}, -a shared repository of optimised scientific software installations (\emph{not} recipes) that can be used on a variety of +a shared repository of optimised scientific software installations (\underline{not} recipes) that can be used on a variety of systems, regardless of which flavor/version of Linux distribution or processor architecture is used, or whether it's a full size HPC cluster, a cloud environment, or a personal workstation. diff --git a/isc25/EESSI/description.tex b/isc25/EESSI/description.tex index d388a2b..8cdffda 100644 --- a/isc25/EESSI/description.tex +++ b/isc25/EESSI/description.tex @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ \subsection*{Overview and Goals} category.\footnote{\href{https://www.eessi.io/docs/blog/2024/11/18/hpcwire-readers-choice-awards-2024-for-eessi/}{https://www.eessi.io/docs/blog/2024/11/18/hpcwire-readers-choice-awards-2024-for-eessi/}} EESSI is an initiative built on the foundations of the EasyBuild community, which is used by well over 100 HPC sites worldwide -(incl. JSC, CSCS, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, LUMI, \ldots), and goes one step further by providing a +(such as JSC, CSCS, the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, LUMI, \ldots). EESSI goes one step further than EasyBuild by providing a truly uniform software stack. It already has a wide spectrum of collaborators including SURF, BSC, Ghent University, etc., despite being a relatively young project.