diff --git a/sc24/EESSI/description.tex b/sc24/EESSI/description.tex index a2dd5ec..0fc4650 100644 --- a/sc24/EESSI/description.tex +++ b/sc24/EESSI/description.tex @@ -8,6 +8,10 @@ \section*{Tutorial description} The project uses EasyBuild to install software on top of a compatibility layer, and uses CernVM-FS to distribute the software installations to client systems. +EESSI is motivated by the observation that the landscape of computational science is changing in +various ways: increasing hardware diversity, user community diversity, and the adoption of public and commercial cloud +infrastructure by research communities. + The critical benefit is that \textbf{EESSI is providing the installations themselves}, \textit{not} recipes: an end user does not need to perform an installation of the scientific software they wish to use. @@ -21,25 +25,6 @@ \section*{Tutorial description} step further by providing a truly uniform software stack. It already has a wide spectrum of collaborators despite being a relatively young project. -EESSI is motivated by the observation that the landscape of computational science is changing in various ways. -Additional families of general-purpose microprocessors including Arm 64-bit (aarch64) and RISC-V on top of th -well-established Intel and AMD processors (both x86\_64), and different types of GPUS (NVIDIA, AMD, Intel) are -increasing the diversity in system architectures. -The rapid expansion of computational science beyond traditional -domains like physics and computational chemistry, including bioinformatics, Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial -Intelligence (AI), etc. leads to a significant growth of the software stack that is used for running scientific -workloads. -The emergence of commercial cloud infrastructure (Amazon EC2, Microsoft Azure, ...) and private cloud -infrastructure (OpenStack) has competitive advantages over on-premise infrastructure for computational workloads, such -as near-instant availability, increased flexibility, a broader variety of hardware platforms, and faster access to new -generations of microprocessors. -In addition the manpower that is available in the HPC user support teams that are -responsible for helping scientists with running the software they require on high-end (and complex) infrastructure like -supercomputers (and beyond) is limited. -These reasons indicate that there is a strong need for more collaboration on -building and installing scientific software to avoid duplicate work across computational scientists and HPC user support -teams. - \subsection*{Tutorial Goals} EESSI provides a collection of scientific software installations that work across a wide range of diff --git a/sc24/EESSI/main.tex b/sc24/EESSI/main.tex index acb8e16..4224aef 100644 --- a/sc24/EESSI/main.tex +++ b/sc24/EESSI/main.tex @@ -83,8 +83,8 @@ \section*{Abstract} %=============================================================================== - -\include{description.tex} % 2 pages max +\newpage +\input{description.tex} % 2 pages max \input{handson.tex} % an additional 0.5 page \include{outline.tex}