EESSI

🔘 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

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

New blog post by Renato Alves (EMBL)

Easy EESSI at EMBL

www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...

@embl.org

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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...

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The @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social is calling for proposals to develop a #European Benchmarking Framework for #HPC & #Quantum Computing!

Help define metrics for performance, energy efficiency, etc.

Submit your application before March 24, 2026.

Details: www.eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eurohpc-ju-l...

Don't miss this webinar series, especially the 2nd webinar on Wed 25 Feb'26 which will cover the EFP Federated Software Catalogue, which is based on EESSI!

MultiXscale expert Thomas Röblitz (University of Bergen) will demonstrate how EESSI allows you to go “from zero to science in minutes” on virtually any Linux system in the world.

🗓️ Tuesday 20 February at 15h
❄️ Geilo Winter School, in Norway
➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2026/01/15/g...

@eessi.bsky.social

New blog post: Using Spack on top of EESSI: A Proof of Concept

Can we convince Spack to reuse software installations available in EESSI to resolve required dependencies when installing QuantumESPRESSO?

www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...

@spackpm.bsky.social

MultiXscale expert Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University) will present “Keeping the P in HPC: the #EESSI Way”, during FOSDEM event in Brussels (Belgium), on 1 February 2026, from 10:30 to 11:10 (H.1301 Cornil)

➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2026/01/07/f...

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MultiXscale expert Helena Vela (Do IT Now) will present the “Status update on #EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations” during FOSDEM event in Brussels (Belgium), on 1 February 2026, from 15:30 to 15:55.

➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2026/01/07/f...

@eessi.bsky.social

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

Call for Participation: Package Managers devroom at FOSDEM 2026 We are excited to announce the Call for Participation for the Package Managers devroom at FOSDEM 2026, taking place on Saturday, 31st January 2026 at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

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!

MPI at Warp Speed: #EESSI Meets Slingshot-11

How do we take advantage of new technological developments?

Read the full EESSI blog post here:
www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...

@eessi.bsky.social

What a great event! 🙌

We would like to thank all the participants (online and on-site) from the excellent EESSI CI/CD hackathon in Copenhagen.
Learn more about the event:
www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...

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

💡 Afternoon highlights from the #EuroHPCUserDays

➡️science tracks in action with speakers from different domains (chemical science, high energy physics & engineering)
➡️ AI Factory panel insights for Users Support

Networking reception starts soon! 📸

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

👥 Join us at #EESSI CI/CD Hackathon, 2 October 2025 in Copenhagen!

Dive deep into the world of Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) for scientific software in #HPC environments.

📝 Registration is OPEN! www.eessi.io/docs/trainin...

@eessi.bsky.social

The recording of the 1st EESSI Happy Hour that took place last Monday is available via eessi.io/docs/trainin...

It featured a quick hands-on demo of installing and configuring CernVM-FS to access EESSI, as well as extensive discussion on various (loosely) related topics.

Join us next Monday!

📢 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

Wondering on which systems EESSI is already available?

Go check out the list of systems we know about that feature a native deployment of EESSI: eessi.io/docs/systems

If you know of additional systems that are not on this list yet, let us know!

#HPC

📢 Video available online: “Streaming Optimised Scientific Software: an Introduction to CernVM-FS” by Valentin Volkl (CERN) at #HPCKP25 Barcelona: hpckp.org/talks/stream...

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📢 Video available online: “From zero to cloud (the #EESSI way)” by MultiXscale experts Alan O'Cais (University of Barcelona and CECAM) and Helena Vela (Do IT Now) at #HPCKP25 Barcelona: hpckp.org/talks/from-z...

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#EESSI is being adopted as the main central software stack on MUSICA, the Multi-Site Computer Austria.

➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2025/06/13/e...

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🚀 The SURF team was live at #ISC25 Hamburg, showcasing on demand demos of #EESSI

👥 Attendees got a hands-on look at how we're simplifying software environments for scientific computing.

➡️ www.eessi.io

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Our MultiXscale expert Helena Vela during her presentation today at the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) booth J30 at #ISC25 Hamburg.

More info: eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/media-events...

#ISChpc #ConnectingTheDots #MultiXscale #EESSI
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New blog post: Mapping the AMD ROCm Ecosystem

www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...

Learn more about the overview of the ROCm ecosystem that was puzzled together, to prepare for adding support for AMD GPUs to EESSI.
This includes an "AMD of ROCm" terminology list.

See eessi.io/docs/rocm

Feedback welcome!

Happy to see adoption of EESSI growing among EuroHPC Centres-of-Excellence!