initial draft for CVMFS ISC'24 tutorial submission

isc24/CernVM-FS/Makefile

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isc24/CernVM-FS/abstract.tex

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+CernVM-FS, the CernVM File System (also known as CVMFS), is a file distribution service that is particularly well suited to distribute software installations across a large number of systems world-wide in an efficient way.
+
+From an end user perspective, files in a CernVM-FS repository are available read-only via a subdirectory in /cvmfs, with a user experience similar to that of an on-demand streaming service for music or video, but then (mainly) applied to software installations.

isc24/CernVM-FS/attendance.tex

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+FIXME
+
+%\comment{Kenneth: check head count EUM'23}
+
+%Based on attendance at previous EESSI and EasyBuild events, including the yearly EasyBuild User Meetings (over 30 attendees in the last physical edition in 2023, close to 100 in 2021 and 2022 in an online setting) and previous tutorials (PRACE-VI-SEEM 2017 Spring School with 25-30 attendees, a free online EasyBuild tutorial in June'20 with about 100 attendees, the half-day ISC'21 tutorial with over 25 attendees, and the in-person (half-day) ISC'22 tutorial with about 20 attendees, we anticipate this EESSI tutorial to be well attended (20-50 attendees).
+
+
+%\comment{online EESSI tutorial in Dec'23 had over 130 registrations}
+
+%KH I would've gone with 50/25/25, but this works too (maybe better even)
+% MG: This was just a blind guess ;)
+%KH seems about right I think, we want to keep it beginner-oriented, 25% advanced may be too much... maybe 50/30/20 is less awkward?
+% I love how 'awkward' is such an awkward word to type... :D (no, haven't had beer yet)
+
+% KH: Markus, I'm signing off for tonight... I'll be around tomorrow, definitely in the morning (have a student intern to keep busy in the afternoon, but I'll be around on Slack)
+%MG: Yea, I will also stop working soon
+
+% KH: do we need anything from Maxime? It's probably good to tell him that now, since he'll only be around after 1-2pm tomorrow.
+%MG: For the submission, we'll need a short bio (some text) For Alan and the two of us, I will copy from last year unless I receive an update.
+% KH I already asked him for a bio. And a picture. I'll mail that too. => DONE

isc24/CernVM-FS/audience.tex

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+This tutorial is intended for
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item FIXME
+    %\item system managers and administrators, responsible for the operational aspects of HPC systems and concerned about hardware optimised scientific software installations;
+    %\item user support teams who need to provide a consistent central software stack for end users, and want to do so in a reproducible way;
+    %\item end users who want to empower themselves to use a software stack they require without compromising on performance, on top of what is provided centrally by the HPC support team;
+    %\item cloud and CI users, that want to use a common stack of optimised scientific software installations;
+    %\item system manufacturers and integrators interested in state-of-the-art software installation tools, who want to leverage the collective expertise incorporated in EasyBuild.
+\end{itemize}

isc24/CernVM-FS/cv-alan.tex

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+%===============================================================================
+% Alan
+%===============================================================================
+
+\subsection{CV for Alan \'O Cais}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] Centre Européen de Calcul Atomique et Moléculaire (CECAM)
+\item[] Avenue de Forel 2, BCH 3103
+\item[] 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
+\item[] [email protected]
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Education}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] Ph.D Theoretical Physics, 2005, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
+\item[] M.Sc. High Performance Computing, 2002, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
+\item[] B.Sc. Theoretical Physics, 2001, Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Professional Experience}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] 2022 - present: Scientific Software Engineer with CECAM
+\item[] 2016 - 2021: E-CAM Centre of Excellence Software Manager at J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre (Germany)
+\item[] 2010 - 2016: Research Fellow at J\"ulich Supercomputing Centre (Germany)
+\item[] 2008 - 2010: Scientific Coordinator at The Cyprus Institute (Cyprus)
+\item[] 2006 - 2008: Research Fellow at University of Adelaide (Australia)
+\item[] 2005 - 2006: Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Tools}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] \textbf{EasyBuild}: (scientific) software build and installation framework
+\item[] Developer (2013 - present) -- \url{https://easybuild.io}
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Conferences, Workshops and Tutorials}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] \emph{Maintaining a Modern Scientific Software Stack Made Easy with EasyBuild} tutorial at ISC'21, June 2021 (\url{https://easybuild.io/tutorial})
+\item[] Organiser of the first \emph{European HPC Training Stakeholder Workshop} (in coordination with the European Commission)
+\item[] Instructor at all E-CAM Centre of Excellence \emph{\href{https://www.e-cam2020.eu/events?tribe_paged=1&tribe_event_display=list&tribe-bar-date=2015-10-01&tribe-bar-search=Extended}{Extended Software Development Workshops}}
+\item[] Local organizer of the \emph{\href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/2nd-EasyBuild-User-Meeting}{2nd EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'17)}}. J\"ulich. Germany.
+\item[]Invited instructor at PRACE seasonal training workshops:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[]  PRACE Autumn School in HPC Programming Techniques, Athens 25-28 November 2014: Lectures on Profiling and Optimization and Benchmarking
+\item[]  PRACE Winter School, Tel Aviv 10-13 February 2014: Lectures on Profiling and Optimization and Benchmarking
+\item[] Joint HP-SEE, LinkSCEEM-2 and PRACE HPC Summer Training, Athens 13-15 July 2011: Lectures on Profiling and Optimization and Benchmarking
+\end{itemize}
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Selected Publications}
+
+\paragraph{Conference Papers}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] A. \'O Cais, P. Steinbach, \emph{Expanding user communities with HPC Carpentry}. Proceedings of the Workshop on HPC Education and Training for Emerging Technologies at ISC2019, Journal of Computational Science Education. 11. 21-25.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] D. Alvarez, A. O'Cais, M. Geimer, K. Hoste, \emph{Scientific Software Management in Real Life: Deployment of EasyBuild on a Large Scale System}. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools, Salt Lake City, USA, 2016.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\paragraph{Journal Papers}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] B. Dröge, V. Holanda Rusu, K. Hoste, C. van Leeuwen, A. O'Cais, T. Röblitz, \emph{{EESSI}: {A cross‐platform
+    ready‐to‐use optimised scientific software stack}}. Software: Practice and Experience, 53(1):176-210, Jan. 2022,
+    \url{https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3075}
+\item[] MJT Oliveira, N Papior, Y Pouillon, V Blum, E Artacho,\dots, \emph{The {CECAM} electronic structure library and the modular software development paradigm}.
+  J Chem Phys. 2020;153:024117
+\item[] M.S. Mahbub, (Adelaide U. \& Rajshahi U.), Alan O'Cais, Waseem Kamleh, B.G. Lasscock, Derek B. Leinweber, Anthony G. Williams, \emph{Isolating Excited States of the Nucleon in Lattice QCD}, Phys.Rev.D80:054507,2009.
+\item[] M.S. Mahbub, (Adelaide U. \& Rajshahi U.) , Alan O'Cais, Waseem Kamleh, Ben G. Lasscock, Derek B. Leinweber, Anthony G. Williams, (Adelaide U.), \emph{Isolating the Roper Resonance in Lattice QCD}, Phys.Lett.B679:418-422,2009.
+\item[] Alexandrou, C., et al., \emph{Evaluation of fermion loops applied to the calculation of the n' mass and the nucleon scalar and electromagnetic form factors}, Computer Physics Communications 183.6 (2012): 1215-1224.
+\item[] J. Foley, K. Jimmy Juge, A. O'Cais, M. Peardon, S.M. Ryan and J. I. Skullerud, \emph{Practical all-to-all propagators for lattice QCD}, Comput. Phys. Commun. 172 (2005) 145.
+\end{itemize}
+
+\newpage

isc24/CernVM-FS/cv-jakob.tex

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+%===============================================================================
+% Jakob
+%===============================================================================
+
+\subsection{CV for Jakob Blomer}
+\begin{description}
+\item[] CERN
+\item[] 1211 Geneva 23
+\item[] [email protected]
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Education}
+\begin{description}
+    \item[] PhD in Computer Science, 2012, Technical University of Munich (Germany)
+    \item[] Masters in Computer Science, 2008, University of Karlsruhe (Germany)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Professional Experience}
+\begin{description}
+    \item[] 2020--: Leading the R\&D effort on the future event data I/O for experiments at the CERN LHC (CERN)
+    \item[] 2015--2023: Project leader of the CernVM File System (CERN)
+    \item[] 06/2014--09/2014: Visiting Scholar in the RAMCloud research group (Stanford University)
+    \item[] 2012-2014: Fellow (CERN)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Tools}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item[] CernVM File System: global-scale file system for software distribution
+    \\lead developer (2012--2023)
+    \\{\small{\url{https://cernvm.cern.ch}}}
+    \item[] ROOT RNTuple: columnar I/O system for particle physics event data\\lead developer (2018--)\\{\small{\url{https://root.cern}}}
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Conferences, Workshops and Tutorials}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[] (co-)organisation of \emph{CernVM} workshops in
+    \href{https://indico.cern.ch/event/1079490}{Amsterdam (2022)},
+        \href{https://indico.cern.ch/event/757415/}{Geneva (2019)},
+        \href{https://indico.cern.ch/event/469775/}{Oxford (2016)}.
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Selected Publications}
+
+\paragraph{Conference Presentations}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[] J. Blomer, \emph{Advances in software management tools}. Large Hadron Collider Physics Conference (LHCP), Paris, France, 2021.
+
+\item[] J. Blomer, \emph{CERN’s Virtual File System for Global-Scale Software Delivery}. Int. Conf. Massive Storage Systems and Technology (MSST), Santa Clara, USA, 2019.
+
+\item[] D. Abdurachmov, J. Blomer,
+\emph{High Energy Physics and ARMv8 64-bit? Investigating the Future of Computing at CERN}.
+Linaro Connect, Budapest, Hungary, 2017.
+
+\item[] J. Blomer, A. Harutyunyan, \emph{A Novel Approach for Distributing and Managing Container Images}. MesosCon North America, Denver, USA, 2016.
+
+\item[] J. Blomer, \emph{Experiences on File Systems: Which is the best file system for you?}. Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), Okinawa, Japan, 2015.
+
+%\item[] J. Blomer, \emph{Keynote: Experiences in using Virtual Machines for High-Throughput Computing at the CERN LHC}. Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP), Okinawa, Japan, 2015.
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\paragraph{Journal Articles}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[] V. Padulano, E. Tejedor, P. Alonso-Jordà, J. Lopez Gomez, J. Blomer,
+\emph{A caching mechanism to exploit object store speed in High Energy Physics analysis}.
+Cluster Computing, 25(5). 2022
+
+\item[] C. Lange, J. Blomer, S. Mosciatti, \emph{Increasing the Execution Speed of Containerized Analysis Workflows Using an Image
+Snapshotter in Combination With CVMFS}. Frontiers in Big Data 4. 2021
+
+\item[] J. Blomer, G. Ganis, N. Hardi, R. Popescu, \emph{Delivering LHC software to HPC compute elements with CernVM-FS}.
+Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 10524. 2017.
+
+\item[] P. Buncic, C. Aguado-Sanchez, J. Blomer, A. Harutyunyan, M. Mudrinic,
+\emph{A practical approach to virtualization in HEP}.
+The European Physical Journal Plus, 126(1). 2011.
+
+\end{itemize}

isc24/CernVM-FS/cv-kenneth.tex

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+%===============================================================================
+% Kenneth
+%===============================================================================
+
+\subsection{CV for Kenneth Hoste}
+\begin{description}
+\item[] HPC-UGent - Ghent University
+\item[] Krijgslaan 281 - building S9, 9000 Ghent (Belgium)
+\item[] [email protected]
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Education}
+\begin{description}
+    \item[] PhD in Engineering: Computer Science, 2010, Ghent University (Belgium)
+    \item[] Masters in Computer Science, 2005, Ghent University (Belgium)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Professional Experience}
+\begin{description}
+    \item[] 2010--present: HPC System Administrator, Ghent University (Belgium)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Tools}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item[] EasyBuild: (scientific) software build and installation framework
+    \\lead developer \& release manager (2010--present)
+    \\{\small{\url{https://easybuild.io} - \url{https://docs.easybuild.io}}}
+    \item[] MICA: Microarchitecture-Independent Characterization of Applications\\developer (2005-2010)\\{\small{\url{https://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/ELIS/MICA} - \url{https://github.com/boegel/MICA}}}
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Conferences, Workshops and Tutorials}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[] \emph{Maintaining a Modern Scientific Software Stack Made Easy with EasyBuild} tutorial at ISC'21, June 2021 (\url{https://easybuild.io/tutorial/isc21})
+\item[] (co-)organisation of \emph{EasyBuild User Meeting} workshops in
+    \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/1st-EasyBuild-User-Meeting}{Ghent (2016)},
+        \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/2nd-EasyBuild-User-Meeting}{J\"ulich (2017)},
+        \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/3rd-EasyBuild-User-Meeting}{Amsterdam (2018)},
+        \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/4th-EasyBuild-User-Meeting}{Louvain-la-Neuve (2019)},
+        \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/5th-EasyBuild-User-Meeting}{Barcelona (2020)},
+        and \href{https://easybuild.io/eum21}{online (2021)}.
+
+\item[] co-organisaton of FOSDEM devroom on \emph{HPC, Big Data \& Data Science} (2014, 2016--2021),
+    \url{https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/track/hpc_big_data_and_data_science}
+\item[] Online EasyBuild tutorial, June 2020 (\url{https://easybuild.io/tutorial})
+\item[] (co-)organisation of \emph{Getting Scientific Software Installed} Birds-of-a-Feather sessions at \href{http://2013.isc-hpc.com/isc13_ap/presentationdetails.php?t=contribution&o=2108&a=select&ra=eventdetails}{ISC'13}, \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/SC13-BoF-session}{SC'13}, \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/ISC'14-BoF-session}{ISC'14}, \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/SC14-BoF-session}{SC'14}, \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/SC15-BoF-session}{SC'15}, \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/SC18-BoF-session-Getting-Scientific-Software-Installed}{SC'18}, \href{https://github.com/easybuilders/easybuild/wiki/SC19-BoF-session-Getting-Scientific-Software-Installed}{SC'19}
+\item[] \emph{Modern Scientific Software Management using EasyBuild \& co}, invited tutorial at PRACE-VI-SEEM	2017 Spring School, Nicosia (Cyprus), April 2017 (\url{https://events.prace-ri.eu/event/601} - \href{https://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_20170425_PRACE_Spring_School.pdf}{presentation} - recording \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WNcTHRyDxk}{part 1}, \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fiv_p87w9XM}{part 2})
+\item[] \emph{Introduction to EasyBuild: Getting Scientific Software Installed With Ease}, invited tutorial at HPC Advisory Council 2016, Lugano (Switzerland), March 2016 (\url{https://www.hpcadvisorycouncil.com/events/2016/swiss-workshop} - presentation \href{https://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_HPCAC_intro_20160323.pdf}{part 1}, \href{https://users.ugent.be/~kehoste/EasyBuild_HPCAC_start_20160323.pdf}{part 2} - recording \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cL_UcPIIxzE}{part 1},  \href{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo_KwlDtg0w}{part 2})
+\item[] (co-)organisation of 11 EasyBuild hackathons across Europe + Austin (US) (2011--2016)
+\item[] co-organisation of the \href{http://sc14.supercomputing.org/schedule/event_detail-evid=wksp152.html}{1st International Workshop on \emph{HPC User Support Tools} (HUST-14)} at SC'14, New Orleans (USA), Nov. 2014
+%\item[] \emph{5 Years of Getting Scientific Software Installed Using}, presentation at HPC Knowledge Portal conference 2017, San Sebastian (Spain), June 2017 (\url{http://www.hpckp.org/index.php/conference/2017})
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Selected Publications}
+
+\paragraph{Conference Papers}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[] P. Forai, K. Hoste, G. Peretti-Pezzi, B. Bode, \emph{Making Scientific Software Installation Reproducible On Cray Systems Using EasyBuild}. Cray User Group (CUG) 2016, London, UK, 2016.
+
+\item[] D. Alvarez, A. O'Cais, M. Geimer, K. Hoste, \emph{Scientific Software Management in Real Life: Deployment of EasyBuild on a Large Scale System}. Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools, Salt Lake City, USA, 2016.
+
+\item[] M. Geimer, K. Hoste, R. McLay,
+\emph{Modern Scientific Software Management Using EasyBuild and Lmod}. 
+Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on HPC User Support Tools, New Orleans, USA, 2014.
+
+\item[] K. Hoste, J. Timmerman, A. Georges, S. De Weirdt, \emph{EasyBuild: building software with ease}. High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC Companion 2012), Salt Lake City, USA, 2012.
+
+\item[] K. Hoste, L. Eeckhout, \emph{COLE: Compiler Optimization Level Exploration}. Proceedings of the 6th International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO 2008), Boston, USA, 2008.
+
+
+\end{itemize}
+
+\paragraph{Journal Articles}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+
+\item[] B. Dröge, V. Holanda Rusu, K. Hoste, C. van Leeuwen, A. O'Cais, T. Röblitz, \emph{{EESSI}: {A cross‐platform
+    ready‐to‐use optimised scientific software stack}}. Software: Practice and Experience, 53(1):176-210, Jan. 2023,
+    \url{https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.3075}
+
+\item[] K. Hoste, L. Eeckhout, \emph{A Methodology for Analyzing Commercial Processor Performance Numbers}. IEEE Computer, 42(10):70-76, Oct. 2009.
+
+\item[] K. Hoste, L. Eeckhout, \emph{Microarchitecture-Independent Workload Characterization}. IEEE Micro, 27(3):63-72, May 2007.
+
+\end{itemize}