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By annual tradition, we are doing a survey to get a better view on the EasyBuild community.
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This survey will be closed on Fri 3 April 2026
#HPC
A lot of progress has been made in the last year on integrating EESSI as Federated Software Catalog in the upcoming EuroHPC Federation Platform.
More details are available in the blog post that was published this week on this topic: eessi.io/docs/blog/20...
EasyBuild v5.2.1 has just been released!
Highlights available at github.com/easybuilders...
All details available in release notes: docs.easybuild.io/release-note...
#HPC
Deucalion will host the 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
Three days of technical presentations and advanced discussions for the #EasyBuild community.
📍 Guimarães, Portugal
🗓️ 21–23 April 2026
🎟️ Free attendance (registration will open soon)
🌐 On-site & online
@easybuild.bsky.social @inesctec.bsky.social
EasyBuild or Spack?
No gift yet for Christmas or New Years?
Don't worry, we got you covered!
🎁 EasyBuild v5.2.0 has been released just now 🎁
(gift wrapping not included, bring your own)
Highlights at github.com/easybuilders..., all details in release notes at docs.easybuild.io/release-note...
Happy holidays!
#HPC
The Package Management devroom is back at #FOSDEM’26, first time since FOSDEM 2018!
I’ll be camping there during the first half of Saturday, hope to see you there too.
Submission deadline for talk proposals is Monday 1 Dec’25.
All info via blog.ecosyste.ms/2025/11/06/f...
Please help by sharing!
Save the date: the 11th EasyBuild User Meeting will take place 21-23 April 2026 @ Guimarães (Portugal), home of the Deucalion EuroHPC supercomputer hosted by MACC.
More info soon via easybuild.io/eum
Ideas & suggestions for talks are welcome!
Looking back to an excellent EESSI CI/CD hackathon in Copenhagen, which we organized in the wake of the EuroHPC User Days 2025.
Enthusiastic group of attendees, both in-person and remote.
Already looking forward to doing this again (perhaps in the wake of EuroHPC Summit 2026 in Cyprus...)
#HPC
The DevOps for #HPC at #CARLA2025 is in full swing! Our first speaker is Kenneth @boegel.bsky.social and discusses @easybuild.bsky.social and EESSI
Can you guess which tool JSC is using to help manage the central software stack for this monster?
Come on, make a wild guess.
Ok, here’s a hint: it starts with an ‘E’…
📢 EESSI Happy Hour sessions (Mondays, 14:00–15:00 CEST) ⏱️ provided by EuroHPC CoE #MultiXscale
Join us for an informal, weekly online session to explore and discuss key EESSI topics and updates with the community.
More information: www.multixscale.eu/2025/08/13/e...
@eessi.bsky.social
New EasyBuild blog post:
Interactive Shell to Debug Failed Builds
blog.easybuild.io/2025/08/13/i...
See the slick demo of how to start an interactive shell to debug a failing shell command that was run by EasyBuild...
EasyBuild v5.1.1 is now available!
All details in the release notes at docs.easybuild.io/release-note...
Join the upcoming webinar series on EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (eessi.io): 5 Mondays in a row, starting next week 5 May’25.
Attendance is free, registration is required.
More info and registration via www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...
#HPC
EasyBuild now has a blog!
blog.easybuild.io
First post is a report on the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25) -> blog.easybuild.io/2025/03/28/e...
#HPC
📢 Exciting news!
The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (@eessi.bsky.social) has been featured in the @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social Blog post: "#EESSI Does It! An Award-Winning Software Story"
🔎Read the full article here:
eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eessi-does-i...
#EuroHPC #MultiXscale
Great idea!
To celebrate the launch of the EasyBuild/EESSI shop last week, a couple of additional items have been added.
This is a special offer: these items are only available *today*, and the supply is limited!
Take a look and place your orders before the provider runs out of stock:
shop.easybuild.io
Great fun at the “Keeping the P in #HPC” social event for the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting yesterday, fully sponsored by Do IT Now (www.doitnowgroup.com).
Kicking off day two of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) with a keynote by Jeff Hammond (NVIDIA)
Live stream via www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4p...
Slides will be made available via easybuild.io/eum25/#program
@fzj-jsc.bsky.social #HPC
Day one of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting is just over halfway.
Many interesting talks have already been presented.
Slides are being made available ASAP via easybuild.io/eum25/#program
Live stream is available via YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis...
Great social event to look forward to on Wed!
Today we kick off the *10th* EasyBuild User Meeting, taking placing over the next 3 days at Jülich Supercomputing Centre.
50 people attending in person, 90 people registered to attend remotely.
If you didn’t register, don’t despair, all talks will be recorded…
More info at easybuild.io/eum25
EasyBuild mug on top of EESSI, EasyBuild, and CernVM-FS stickers
It was nice to meet you @boegel.bsky.social at the #EuroHPCSummit2025 and thanks for the mug and stickers.
Looking forward to a fruitful collaboration of #VSC & #EESSI 🤝
@eessi.bsky.social
@easybuild.bsky.social
@vscluster.bsky.social
EESSI was featured prominently during the presentation on the EuroHPC Federation Platform at the EuroHPC Summit 2025 in Kraków this week.
Broad adoption of EESSI is happening as we speak across EuroHPC JU systems, EuroHPC CoE’s, and beyond!
#eurohpcsummit #HPC
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
The typo in "were" is a bit embarrassing, but fine...
To celebrate the release of EasyBuild v5.0.0, I am giving away a *free EasyBuild coffee mug* to the first person at the EuroHPC Summit in Kraków this week who can show me hands-on that they have installed EasyBuild v5.0.0.
Send me a message in LinkedIn or the EasyBuild Slack if you want to meet up!
Were please to announce the release of the long-awaited EasyBuild v5.0.0 !
A high-level overview of changes is available at docs.easybuild.io/easybuild-v5
More details in the release notes: docs.easybuild.io/release-note...
Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!
Minutes, not hours.