Curious about how EESSI is being integrated in the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) as the base for the Federated Software Catalog? Don’t miss the next EFP webinar on Wednesday 25 February at 14h, by our MultiXscale expert Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University).
Abstract:
In this webinar, we will introduce the Federated Software Catalogue (FSC) component of the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP ), which will be based on the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI, pronounced as “easy”).
EESSI provides a consistent set of software installations that were optimized for a broad range of specific CPU microarchitectures (Intel, AMD, Arm), including those featured in EuroHPC JU supercomputers. These software installations were built such that they are independent of the host operating system (OS), and only rely on software provided by the host OS where necessary (like GPU drivers). Where desirable, specific custom software installations can be “plugged in”, for example an system-tuned MPI library to enhance the interconnect performance. A select set of software that supports different generations of NVIDIA GPUs is also included in EESSI, while support for AMD GPUs is a work-in-progress.
EESSI is already available on various EuroHPC JU supercomputers today, and is currently being made available on the others.
In addition, EESSI will be integrated into EFP in various ways:
- An overview of the software installations provided by EESSI will be available in the MyEFP web interface via the Software Listing;
- EFP Interactive will rely on EESSI as a backend to power various interactive apps, including a Linux shell environment, JupyterLab and RStudio, a desktop environment to run GUI applications like ParaView and VTK, and specific software like TensorBoard and MLflow;
- Workloads run via EFP Workflows can rely on EESSI to ensure the software required to run a workflow is available in a consistent way across EuroHPC systems;
We will present a short introduction on EESSI and its current status, outline how it is being integrated in EFP as Federated Software Catalogue component, demonstrate how it can be used on EuroHPC JU supercomputers already, and provide an outlook on upcoming improvemnts and enhancements.
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