diff --git a/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex b/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex index b342a08..5beb4b3 100644 --- a/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex +++ b/isc25/EESSI/abstract.tex @@ -1,19 +1,21 @@ What if there was a way to avoid having to install a broad range of scientific software from scratch on every HPC cluster 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, 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 +Installing scientific software for supercomputers is known to be a tedious and time-consuming task. The application +software stack continues to deepen as the +HPC user community becomes more diverse, computational science expands rapidly, and the diversity of system architectures +increases. Simultaneously, we see a surge in interest in public cloud +infrastructures 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 tutorial aims to address these challenges by providing the attendees with the knowledge to stream optimised -scientific software. For this, the tutorial introduces European Environment for Scientific Software Installations +This tutorial aims to address these challenges by providing the attendees with the tools to \emph{stream} the optimised +scientific software they need. The tutorial introduces European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (\emph{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 +creating a shared repository of scientific software installations (\emph{not} recipes) 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 cover the usage of EESSI, different ways to accessing EESSI, how to add software to EESSI, and highlight some more -advanced features. We will also show how to engage with the community and contribute to the project. +advanced features. We will also show attendees how to engage with the community and contribute to the project.