EasyBuild

Before you start the weekend, be aware that EasyBuild v5.4.1 was released earlier this week. Lots of good stuff, including support for installing yet another batch of 100+ new software. Highlights: github.com/easybuilders... Detailed release notes: docs.easybuild.io/release-notes/ #HPC #community

It's long overdue, but we finally managed to get a blog post out on the joint event we had with EESSI & Spack in Bologna at CINECA back in May 2026. Includes links to presentation materials and recordings of all talks, from intro-level to more advanced. blog.easybuild.io/2026/05/22/e... #HPC

Want to learn more about how EESSI is the base for the Federated Software Catalog component of the EuroHPC Federation Platform? Join this webinar! #HPC

Save the date! The 12th EasyBuild User Meeting will take place 19-21 April 2027 in Montréal, Canada. More information coming soon via easybuild.io/eum27 The week before HPSFcon 2027 will also take place in Montréal, see events.linuxfoundation.org/hpsf-confere... #HPC #community

It's not too late to vote, but you better hurry, voting closes *today* ---> www.hpcwire.com/2026-hpcwire... <--- #HPC #EESSI #community

Wondering whether EESSI deserves your vote again for the HPCWire Readers' Choice Awards 2026? Don't despair, we've got your back! Check out our new blog post that summarizes all the progress we have made: eessi.io/docs/blog/20... Don't forget to vote, poll closes on Friday 2 Oct 2026. #HPC

EESSI has been nominated (again) for the HPCWire Reader's Choice Awards 2026, in the "Best HPC/AI Programming Tool or Technology". 1. Go to www.hpcwire.com/2026-hpcwire...; 2. Fill out the form; 3. Vote! Maybe you can aim for "EESSI Open-Source Project" in category 11? Please join the vote! #HPC

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝘂𝗰𝗮𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗸𝗲𝗲𝗽 𝟰,𝟬𝟬𝟬+ 𝘀𝗼𝗳𝘁𝘄𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗶𝗻𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝘀 𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝘀𝗺𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗹𝘆? @easybuild.bsky.social helps automate and standardise the installation of scientific software, manage dependencies and reuse configurations across Deucalion’s computing environment. 🔗 shorturl.at/06VmQ @acnca.bsky.social #HPC

EasyBuild v5.4.0 is now available for your software installation pleasure! This release includes changes that can result in significantly faster installation times, especially when lots of dependencies or extensions are involved. Other highlights for this release: github.com/easybuilders... #HPC

Packing up for trip to Hamburg for ISC’26… If you’re a sticker fan like I am, come find me and get some of these to decorate your laptop! #ISC26 #HPC

EasyBuild v5.3.1 is now available! Check out the highlights @ github.com/easybuilders..., or scroll through all the gory details in the release notes available @ docs.easybuild.io/release-note... 96 new software projects supported, now 3k+ in total! ROCm components + ROCm-based toolchains! #HPC

📣 Meet our MultiXscale experts in the following sessions at ISC26 Hamburg (Germany): 🟢 Tutorial: Introduction to EESSI: the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations. 🟢 BoF session: EESSI ➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2026/06/12/i... #ISC26 #ISC2026 #ConnectingTheDots @eessi.bsky.social

Day 1 of the joint EasyBuild / EESSI / Spack tutorial at CINECA, co-organized with the MaX EuroHPC Centre-of-Exellence, starts with an introduction to all 3 projects, followed by an introduction to the EuroHPC Federation Platform. @easybuild.bsky.social @eessi.bsky.social @spackpm.bsky.social

Tue-Thu 19-21 June'26, an EasyBuild+EESSI+Spack tutorial/hackathon is being organized at CINECA (@cineca.bsky.social) in Bologna, Italy. In-person attendance is fully booked, but remote attendance (via Zoom) is still possible. More details, including registration via event.ugent.be/registration...

The 11th EasyBuild User Meeting which took place in Guimarães, the home of the EuroHPC Deucalion supercomputer (@deucalionacnca.bsky.social), was a great community event. If you missed it, check the blog posts covering all 3 days of the event. Start here: blog.easybuild.io/2026/04/21/e... #HPC

Blog post on first day of the 11th EasyBuild User Meeting which took place last week: blog.easybuild.io/2026/04/21/e... Two additional posts for day 2 & 3 coming soon... #HPC

Day 2 of the 11th EasyBuild User Meeting is starting in Guimarães (Portugal). Close to 50 in-person attendees, plus another 30-ish via Zoom. Live stream (incl. recording of previous talks) is available via YouTube playlist @ www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... Program: easybuild.io/eum26/#program

It's not too late to fill out the EasyBuild User Survey, but time is running out, it closes tomorrow (Fri 3 April 2026). ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please participate, and help us spread the word!

By annual tradition, we are doing a survey to get a better view on the EasyBuild community. Please take ~15min of your time to fill it out: ugent.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... Please consider sharing it with friends or colleagues! 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...

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

Deucalion will host the 𝟭𝟭𝘁𝗵 𝗘𝗮𝘀𝘆𝗕𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗨𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗠𝗲𝗲𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 Three days of technical presentations and advanced discussions for the #EasyBuild community. 📍 Guimarães, Portugal 🗓️ 21–23 April 2026 🎟️ Free attendance (registration will open soon) 🌐 On-site & online @easybuild.bsky.social @inesctec.bsky.social

EasyBuild or Spack?

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

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!

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

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

Can you guess which tool JSC is using to help manage the central software stack for this monster? Come on, make a wild guess. Ok, here’s a hint: it starts with an ‘E’…

📢 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

New EasyBuild blog post: Interactive Shell to Debug Failed Builds blog.easybuild.io/2025/08/13/i... See the slick demo of how to start an interactive shell to debug a failing shell command that was run by EasyBuild...

EasyBuild v5.1.1 is now available! All details in the release notes at docs.easybuild.io/release-note...

Join the upcoming webinar series on EESSI, the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (eessi.io): 5 Mondays in a row, starting next week 5 May’25. Attendance is free, registration is required. More info and registration via www.eessi.io/docs/trainin... #HPC

EasyBuild now has a blog! blog.easybuild.io First post is a report on the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25) -> blog.easybuild.io/2025/03/28/e... #HPC

📢 Exciting news! The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (@eessi.bsky.social) has been featured in the @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social Blog post: "#EESSI Does It! An Award-Winning Software Story" 🔎Read the full article here: eurohpc-ju.europa.eu/eessi-does-i... #EuroHPC #MultiXscale

To celebrate the launch of the EasyBuild/EESSI shop last week, a couple of additional items have been added. This is a special offer: these items are only available *today*, and the supply is limited! Take a look and place your orders before the provider runs out of stock: shop.easybuild.io

Great fun at the “Keeping the P in #HPC” social event for the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting yesterday, fully sponsored by Do IT Now (www.doitnowgroup.com).

Kicking off day two of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting at Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) with a keynote by Jeff Hammond (NVIDIA) Live stream via www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4p... Slides will be made available via easybuild.io/eum25/#program @fzj-jsc.bsky.social #HPC

Day one of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting is just over halfway. Many interesting talks have already been presented. Slides are being made available ASAP via easybuild.io/eum25/#program Live stream is available via YouTube: youtube.com/playlist?lis... Great social event to look forward to on Wed!

Today we kick off the *10th* EasyBuild User Meeting, taking placing over the next 3 days at Jülich Supercomputing Centre. 50 people attending in person, 90 people registered to attend remotely. If you didn’t register, don’t despair, all talks will be recorded… More info at easybuild.io/eum25

It was nice to meet you @boegel.bsky.social at the #EuroHPCSummit2025 and thanks for the mug and stickers. Looking forward to a fruitful collaboration of #VSC & #EESSI 🤝 @eessi.bsky.social @easybuild.bsky.social @vscluster.bsky.social

EESSI was featured prominently during the presentation on the EuroHPC Federation Platform at the EuroHPC Summit 2025 in Kraków this week. Broad adoption of EESSI is happening as we speak across EuroHPC JU systems, EuroHPC CoE’s, and beyond! #eurohpcsummit #HPC @eurohpc-ju.bsky.social

To celebrate the release of EasyBuild v5.0.0, I am giving away a *free EasyBuild coffee mug* to the first person at the EuroHPC Summit in Kraków this week who can show me hands-on that they have installed EasyBuild v5.0.0. Send me a message in LinkedIn or the EasyBuild Slack if you want to meet up!

Minutes, not hours.

Hours, not days.

We're hiring! jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Sof... Join the HPC team at Ghent University to help integrate EESSI into the EuroHPC Federation Platform over the next couple of years. Apply by 23 March 2025. If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly. #HPC #jobs

Days, not weeks.

All seats for attending the 10th (!) EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25) at Jülich Supercomputing Centre ( @fz-juelich.de ) are taken... Full program is available via easybuild.io/eum25/#program Registration for virtual attendance via Zoom is still open: event.ugent.be/registration... #HPC #community