It's not too late to fill out the EasyBuild User Survey, but time is running out, it closes tomorrow (Fri 3 April 2026).
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There's so much to unpack here, but this seems like a very thorough write-up of recent developments regarding MkDocs: fpgmaas.com/blog/collaps...
☑️ Status Update on EESSI for the EuroHPC Federation Platform
Read all the details on the #EESSI blog post here:
www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...
@eessi.bsky.social
I have a feeling will be watching this a couple of times in the weeks, months, and years to come.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3At...
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...
Very interesting interview with Martin Donath (@squidfunk.com) on what's going on with Zensical: www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1Bv...
Definitely worth a look for anyone who has been using Material for MkDocs and is wondering what the future looks like when migrating to Zensical (which you all should!)
#VoicesOfMultiXscale: Women Driving Innovation
🟣 Lara Peeters, Scientific Software Support in MultiXscale
Ghent University (Belgium)
#WomenAtMultiXscaleCoE #InternationalWomensDay #8March
Spoiler: I have just experienced the first taste of upcoming spring. It’s glorious. ☀️
Facts detected.
See also “scientific” computing software.
The 17TB is 100% real, but for science, it needs to be constrained to a single machine.
On a single core.
No threads.
No MPI.
With one lock file.
On NFS.
/cc @boegel.bsky.social @tgamblin.bsky.social for fun
(we’ve seen things) 🤣
In Belgium, we have *rules* about our beers…
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
🔘 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
Discover more here:
➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2026/02/20/u...
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
@eessi.bsky.social
If you're interested in RISC-V, this talk by @fclc.bsky.social from FOSDEM'26 is a must see...
RISC-V had 40 years of history to learn from: What it gets right, and what it gets hilariously wrong
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
#riscv
New blog post by Loris Ercole (CECAM):
Using Spack on Top of EESSI: Best of Both Worlds
www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...
#HPC #community
Are you interested to learn how EESSI is being integrated in the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) as the base for the Federated Software Catalog?
Join the next EFP webinar on Wed 25 Feb'26 at 14:00 CET, register here: my-eurohpc.eu/training/#we...
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
4,300 screams later?
Opening a PR may also help other people using that project who are hitting that same bug though...
This talk by @richcampbell.bsky.social is well worth your time, go see it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=65TG...
Excellent talk by Xavier Delaruelle (lead of @envmodules.bsky.social) on the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF, hpsf.io) at the #HPC devroom at FOSDEM'26 last weekend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DdF...
We had a great time at #FOSDEM at the HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom & dinner!
If you missed Xavier Delaruelle’s talk on HPSF, view it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/-DdFXt5wLL0?...
Photos provided by @boegel.bsky.social 📸
I now have a consulting page on my website: https://nesbitt.io/consulting/
It's not too late yet to register for the first introductory webinar on the upcoming EuroHPC Federation Platform on Wed 4 Feb'26 13:00-14:00 CET!
Registration for 2nd webinar on the Federated Software Catalog based on EESSI is also open now.
More info via my-eurohpc.eu/training/
Speaker point of view at FOSDEM’26 Main Track in room K.1.105
Happy people at HPC devroom dinner sponsored by HPSF
More happy people during HPC devroom group dinner sponsored by HPSF
View on full HPC devroom at FOSDEM’26
Looking back to amazing #FOSDEM weekend.
Best one ever for me, for a broad variety of reasons: my first talk in Main Track, group dinner sponsored by #HPSF, super smooth #HPC devroom thanks to volunteers, other devrooms that I supported a bit being run well, noticeable increase in young attendees, …
Repeat this five times fast!
"Ask in the spack slack for help to install spark in a stack using a spec"
Great talk always KH!
#hpc #ai #cloud
If you'vee ever spent some time installing packages, you have to check this talk! You'll definitely laugh, and maybe cry a little remembering the days spent installing (or at least trying) your most dreaded piece of software. I've spent 15+ years doing that, I can tell you everything is true
