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MultiXscale CoE will gather top European experts in High-Performance Computing (HPC) from academic and industrial sectors across Europe during its General Assembly (GA), to be carried out from 23rd to 24th January 2025 after the HiPEAC event in Barcelona (Spain), where the completed activities and future work in the 3rd year of the project will be discussed in this two-days meeting.  Previously to their GA, MultiXscale experts will be involved in several sessions during the HiPEAC conference in Barcelona, the premier European forum for experts in computer architecture, programming models, compilers and operating systems for general-purpose, embedded and cyber-physical systems. These sessions are:  Funded for a period of four years, and coordinated by the National Institute of Chemistry based in Ljubljana, Slovenia, MultiXscale is a collaborative project between members of the CECAM network and EESSI that will allow domain scientists to take advantage of the computational resources offered by EuroHPC JU. It gathers the following 13 partners joining from the academic and industrial sectors across Europe: National Institute of Chemistry, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, University of Stuttgart, University of Barcelona, SURF BV, University of Groningen, Ghent University, University of Bergen, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Sorbonne University, HPCNow!, Leonardo and the Italian Institute of Technology.  *Download press release in pdf here

“Keeping it Simple, Keeping it #EESSI: Updates from 2023-2024″ by Pedro Santos Neves at SURF Advanced Computing User Day, on 12 December 2024, in the Jaarbeurs, Utrecht. Abstract: EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, is a collaborative project to build a shared scientific software stack for #HPC systems and beyond. In this session we will give a brief overview of EESSI and highlight recent developments for HPC users and system administrators. On top of the ever increasing number of supported applications in the software stack, there is a lot of exciting news that make EESSI even more versatile and simple to use. Extending the existing stack and customizing it for the needs of local HPC sites is now a breeze with the new EESSI-extend functionality. Similarly, scientific software developers can use the new dev.eessi.io repository to build, test, and deploy their development builds among a wide range of CPU architectures. Last but not least, the new EESSI CI workflows take care of many CI setup headaches by making the entire software stack available from the start in GitHub and GitLab. More information available here: https://pretalx.surf.nl/acud-2024/talk/SUCPTY/

Find our new MultiXscale social media corporate profile on Bluesky here, for new updates about our CoE: https://bsky.app/profile/multixscale.bsky.social

European Centres of Excellence showcase female talent and leadership in HPC at the upcoming HiPEAC conference At the upcoming HiPEAC25 conference, the European Centres of Excellence (CoEs) will host two special workshops to delve into the world of HPC while appraising the contributions of women experts in the field. Funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU), the CoEs are initiatives committed to developing and optimizing advanced application codes in light of the upcoming exascale transition to tackle critical scientific and societal challenges. Part of their mission is also to build a more inclusive community in HPC by showcasing the expertise of women specialists and professionals from marginalized communities. The workshops will gather experts from a variety of projects, with representatives from all the CoEs and relevant Euro-HPC initiatives. The speakers will present on a range of topics, such as computer architecture, programming models, compilers, and operating systems.  Explore the workshops below: From petascale to exascale and beyond: the Centres of Excellence challengeMon, January 20th10:00 – 17:30Room: Extra 3 Tackling software exascale challenges: the Centres of Excellence in High Performance Computing perspectiveWed, January 22nd10:00 – 17:30Room: 9 Driving diversity and excellence in HPC After two decades of connecting and inspiring the HPC community, HiPEAC returns to Barcelona for its 20th edition. As the premier European forum bridging industry and academia in computing systems, HiPEAC gathers professionals from industry, research, and policy to promote R&D in computer architecture and computing systems in Europe. The initiative proposed by the European CoEs addresses ongoing gender disparities in HPC, where women remain underrepresented, particularly as keynote speakers at conferences. By normalizing women’s voices in the field, the CoEs aim to inspire and empower the next generation of women in STEM.Further information about the HiPEAC25 conference is available on the HiPEAC website.

Bob Dröge presented the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (#EESSI) in the Dutch Federated Computing and Data workshop, organized by EuroCC Netherlands and SURF’s Innovation department.

NRIS (Norwegian Research Infrastructure Services) is organizing webinars as part of it’s outreach program NRIS Talks. Join us for an enlighting webinar on How to build on top of EESSI using EasyBuild. This webinar aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how to build software on top of the scientific software stack provided by the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI). Webinar Details: About the Webinar: We will explain and demonstrate how everyone can easily build and install software on top of EESSI. While EESSI already provides ~ 500 software packages a specific software you need may not be available through EESSI yet. The webinar will show how to use EasyBuild to build (scientific) software on top of EESSI for all users, for a specific project account or individual users. More information and registration here

Date: 15 November from 14h to 15h30 – Location: Online About the talk:  What if you could avoid having to install a broad range of scientific software from scratch on every HPC cluster, laptop, or cloud instance you use or maintain, without compromising on performance? Installing scientific software for supercomputers is known to be a tedious and time-consuming task. Especially as the HPC user community becomes more diverse, computational science expands rapidly, and the diversity of system architectures increases, the application software stack continues to deepen. Simultaneously, we see a surge in interest in cloud computing for scientific computing. Delivering optimised software installations and providing access to these installations in a reliable, user-friendly, and reproducible way is a highly non-trivial task that affects application developers, HPC user support teams, and the users themselves. This webinar aims to address these challenges by providing the attendees with the knowledge to stream optimised scientific software installations. For this, we will introduce the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI), a collaboration between various European HPC sites & industry partners, with the common goal of creating a shared repository of scientific software installations 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. We will cover the design and usage EESSI, different ways to accessing EESSI, how to add software to EESSI, and highlight some more advanced features including support for NVIDIA GPUs and facilitating the deployment of pre-release builds of scientific software. We will also show how to engage with the community and contribute to the project. More info and registration here

The video of the first Ambassador event organized in collaboration with NCC Austria and Slovenia, on 4 October 2024, is already available on our YouTube channel. The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI – pronounced “easy”) is a common stack of scientific software for HPC systems and beyond, including laptops, personal workstations, and cloud infrastructure. In many ways it works like a streaming service for scientific software, instantly giving you the software you need, when you need it, and compiled to work efficiently for the architecture you have access to. In this online workshop, we explain what EESSI is, how it is being designed, how to get access to it, and how to use it. We give a number of demonstrations and you can try EESSI out yourself.

We had a great time at the EuroHPC User Day 2024 in Amsterdam earlier this week. Both MultiXscale and EESSI were strongly represented, and the work we have been doing was clearly being appreciated. Find more details about MultiXscale participation on this event at the EESSI blog here

MultiXscale CoE will be involved in two sessions at the EuroHPC User Day 2024 in Amsterdam: More information available here