In the framework of the workshop “Rethinking scientific applications for exascale and emerging architectures: the Centre of Excellence challenge”, organized at HiPEAC Kraków 2026, our MultiXscale expert Helena Vela gave the presentation: “Status Update on EESSI: the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations”, on 27 January from 16h40 to 17h.
Abstract:
This talk gives an overview of the latest developments in the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI). We’ll highlight the newest release of EESSI and the expansion of CPU targets, including updated support for A64FX and RISC-V, alongside the growing catalogue of software projects available through the stack. Recent work has improved the experience of building on top of EESSI and strengthened compatibility with newer CUDA releases, while also looking into ROCm support to broaden GPU coverage.
We will touch on the ongoing effort to make Spack available within EESSI, as well as new integrations with the European Federation Platform and Open OnDemand to simplify adoption across HPC sites, along with the PoC integration with EOSC. The session also introduces the EESSI dashboard and provides a brief look at the community-focused activities launched this year, such as the EESSI happy hours and the expanding webinar series, among other integrations and developments to the test suite and the bot.
Altogether, this update captures the steady progress of EESSI as it continues to grow into a flexible, multi-architecture software ecosystem for the HPC and research computing community.
More information in the previous post here.
