diff --git a/isc25/EESSI/description.tex b/isc25/EESSI/description.tex index fe5e54a..d388a2b 100644 --- a/isc25/EESSI/description.tex +++ b/isc25/EESSI/description.tex @@ -28,15 +28,19 @@ \subsection*{Overview and Goals} The \textbf{European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)}\footnote{\href{https://eessi.io}{https://eessi.io}} project is a collaborative project -between different partners in the HPC community (and supported by the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre of Excellence) to build a +between different partners in the HPC community (and supported by the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre of +Excellence\footnote{\href{https://multixscale.eu}{https://multixscale.eu}}) to build a common stack of optimised scientific software installations for everything from laptops to big HPC systems and cloud -infrastructures. The project uses EasyBuild to install software on top of a compatibility layer, and leverages CernVM-FS to +infrastructures. The project uses EasyBuild\footnote{\href{https://easybuild.io}{https://easybuild.io}} to install +software on top of a compatibility layer, and leverages CernVM-FS\footnote{\href{https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs}{https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs}} to distribute the software installations to client systems. In 2024, it was selected as winner of the HPCwire Readers’ Choice Awards -in the "Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology" category.\footnote{\href{https://www.hpcwire.com/2024-readers-editors-choice-best-hpc-programming-tool-or-technology/}{https://www.hpcwire.com/2024-readers-editors-choice-best-hpc-programming-tool-or-technology/}} +in the "Best HPC Programming Tool or Technology" +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 -truly uniform software stack. It already has a wide spectrum of collaborators despite being a relatively young project. +truly uniform software stack. It already has a wide spectrum of collaborators including SURF, BSC, Ghent University, etc., +despite being a relatively young project. EESSI is motivated by the observation that the landscape of computational science is changing in various ways. Additional families of general-purpose microprocessors including Arm 64-bit (aarch64) and RISC-V on top of th diff --git a/isc25/EESSI/handson.tex b/isc25/EESSI/handson.tex index aa1250c..d884702 100644 --- a/isc25/EESSI/handson.tex +++ b/isc25/EESSI/handson.tex @@ -12,12 +12,13 @@ The guided examples will happen mostly in the proximity of a coffee break allowing the attendees to continue a bit during the coffee break should they want to and ensuring the maximum benefit from the tutorial. -The tutorial is based on previous tutorials -\href{https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eessi/docs/main/talks/20231205-Introduction-to-EESSI-CASTIEL2/20231205-Introduction-to-EESSI-CASTIEL2.pdf}{An introduction to EESSI} ($\sim60$ live attendees, see \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYI9oKFLxA}{YouTube for recording}) and -\href{https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multixscale/cvmfs-tutorial-hpc-best-practices/main/files/Best-Practices-for-CernVM-FS-in-HPC-20231204.pdf}{Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC} ($\sim130$ live attendees, see \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Mmy7NBXDU}{YouTube for recording}), +The tutorial is based on previous online tutorials from December 2023 +\href{https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eessi/docs/main/talks/20231205-Introduction-to-EESSI-CASTIEL2/20231205-Introduction-to-EESSI-CASTIEL2.pdf}{"An introduction to EESSI"} ($\sim60$ live attendees, see \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAYI9oKFLxA}{YouTube for recording}) and +\href{https://raw.githubusercontent.com/multixscale/cvmfs-tutorial-hpc-best-practices/main/files/Best-Practices-for-CernVM-FS-in-HPC-20231204.pdf}{"Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC"} ($\sim130$ live attendees, see \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0Mmy7NBXDU}{YouTube for recording}), but will be updated with new developments in EESSI and the CernVM-FS infrastructure. -This tutorial will also be made available on that site, and a tutorial website will be created and referring to the EESSI documentation on -\url{https://www.eessi.io/docs} (similar to \url{https://tutorial.easybuild.io/}). +A tutorial website will be created and referring to the EESSI documentation on +\href{https://www.eessi.io/docs}{https://www.eessi.io/docs} (similar to \href{https://tutorial.easybuild.io/}{https://tutorial.easybuild.io/}). + It should be noted that even though this tutorial has never been presented at ISC, all the authors have extensive experience in other tutorials and workshops, both inside and outside the ISC and SC conference series. Additionally, they engaged in other collaborative efforts within the EESSI and EasyBuild community. Providing coherent and streamlined diff --git a/isc25/EESSI/prerequisites.tex b/isc25/EESSI/prerequisites.tex index 36aa994..d228f8d 100644 --- a/isc25/EESSI/prerequisites.tex +++ b/isc25/EESSI/prerequisites.tex @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ Attendees wishing to participate in the guided examples are expected to use their own notebook computers with a working SSH client, and have some familiarity with -the Unix shell. +the Linux shell environment. Detailed information on how to prepare for this tutorial will be provided through the tutorial website, similar to