EESSI tutorial @ ISC'26

.github/workflows/build.yml

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     runs-on: ubuntu-latest
     steps:
     - name: checkout
-      uses: actions/checkout@v4
-    - name: Compile LaTeX document (EESSI)
-      uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@f1ca82cbed861b3534e2997dd584944f55b884ed
+      uses: actions/checkout@1af3b93b6815bc44a9784bd300feb67ff0d1eeb3  # v6.0.0
+    - name: Compile LaTeX document
+      uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@25080975331dc4fc8e6f1af55788e00f84f51fff  # v4.0.0
       with:
-        working_directory: isc25/EESSI/
+        working_directory: isc26-EESSI/
         root_file: main.tex
         args: "-output-directory=build -pdf"
         latexmk_shell_escape: true
-    - name: Store produce PDFs (EESSI)
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
+    - name: Store produce PDFs
+      uses: actions/upload-artifact@330a01c490aca151604b8cf639adc76d48f6c5d4  # v5.0.0
       with:
-        name: EESSI-ISC25-tutorial
-        path: isc25/EESSI/build/main.pdf
-    - name: Compile LaTeX document (CernVM-FS)
-      uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@f1ca82cbed861b3534e2997dd584944f55b884ed
-      with:
-        working_directory: isc24/CernVM-FS
-        root_file: main.tex
-        args: "-output-directory=build -pdf"
-        latexmk_shell_escape: true
-    - name: Store produce PDFs (CernVM-FS)
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: CVMFS-ISC24-tutorial
-        path: isc24/CernVM-FS/build/main.pdf
-    - name: Compile LaTeX document (EESSI, SC24)
-      uses: xu-cheng/latex-action@f1ca82cbed861b3534e2997dd584944f55b884ed
-      with:
-        working_directory: sc24/EESSI
-        root_file: main.tex
-        args: "-output-directory=build -pdf"
-        latexmk_shell_escape: true
-    - name: Store produce PDFs (EESSI, SC24)
-      uses: actions/upload-artifact@v4
-      with:
-        name: EESSI-SC24-tutorial
-        path: sc24/EESSI/build/main.pdf
+        name: EESSI-ISC26-tutorial
+        path: isc26-EESSI/build/main.pdf

isc26-EESSI/Makefile

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+all:
+	pdflatex main.tex && mv main.pdf isc26-eessi-tutorial.pdf

isc26-EESSI/abstract.tex

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+%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.
+The application software stack continues to deepen, especially 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 cloud computing for scientific computing. Delivering optimised
+software installations and providing access to these installations in a reliable, user-friendly, and reproducible
+way is an increasingly highly non-trivial task that affects software developers, HPC user support teams,
+and researchers running scientific workloads on HPC systems.
+
+This tutorial aims to address these challenges by introducing the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations
+(EESSI, pronounced as \emph{``easy"}), a collaboration between various European HPC sites \& industry partners. The goal of EESSI is to provide
+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 is a full size HPC
+cluster, a virtual machine in the cloud, or a personal workstation.
+
+We cover the basics of EESSI, different use cases for 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.

isc26-EESSI/attendance.tex

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+We anticipate this EESSI tutorial at ISC to be well attended with 20-50 attendees. This estimate is based on attendance at previous EESSI and EasyBuild events, including:
+\begin{itemize}
+\item A recent webinar series related to EESSI in May-June 2025 with over 150 registrations;
+\item The yearly EasyBuild User Meetings, with over 50 in-person attendees in 2025, alongside over 70 online registrations;
+\item An online EESSI tutorial in Dec'23 with over 130 registrations;
+\item The in-person (half-day) ISC'22 EasyBuild tutorial with about 20 attendees.
+\end{itemize}
+
+%HV: Do we have the attendance of the workshop series we did? 
+
+%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

isc26-EESSI/audience.tex

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+%This tutorial is intended for
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item Researchers who want to empower themselves to use a uniform software stack without compromising on
+          performance; %on top of what is provided centrally by the HPC support team;
+    \item Developers who build and test their software across different HPC systems and the cloud;
+    \item System administrators and user support teams, 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 Cloud and CI users, who 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 and EESSI.
+\end{itemize}

isc26-EESSI/cv-alan.tex

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+%===============================================================================
+% Alan
+%===============================================================================
+
+\subsection{CV for Alan \'O Cais}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] alan.ocais@cecam.org
+\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[] 2025 - present: Independent consultant contributing to the EuroHPC Federation Platform
+\item[] 2022 - 2025: Technical Manager of MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre of Excellence at University of Barcelona
+\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 and Projects}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item[] \emph{MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence}
+        \\steering committee member, technical manager, and work package leader (2023--present)
+        \\{\small{\url{https://www.multixscale.eu}}}
+    \item[] \emph{European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)}
+        \\active contributor (2020--present)
+        \\{\small{\url{https://eessi.io} - \url{https://eessi.io/docs}}}
+    \item[] \emph{EasyBuild: (scientific) software build and installation framework}
+        \\developer \& co-maintainer (2013--present)
+        \\{\small{\url{https://easybuild.io} - \url{https://docs.easybuild.io}}}
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Conferences, Workshops and Tutorials}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] \emph{Streaming Optimised Scientific Software: an Introduction to EESSI}, online tutorial in context of
+    MultiXscale EuroHPC CoE, co-organisor, December 2023
+        \\{\small{\url{https://github.com/EESSI/docs/tree/main/talks/20231205-Introduction-to-EESSI-CASTIEL2}}}
+\item[] \emph{Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC}, online tutorial in context of MultiXscale EuroHPC CoE, co-organisor, December 2023
+        \\{\small{\url{https://multixscale.github.io/cvmfs-tutorial-hpc-best-practices}}}
+\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

isc26-EESSI/cv-helena.tex

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+%===============================================================================
+% Helena
+%===============================================================================
+
+\subsection{CV for Helena Vela Beltran}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] Do IT Now (Spain)
+\item[] Av. Meridiana 358
+\item[] 1015 Barcelona, Spain
+\item[] helena.vela@doitnowgroup.com
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Education}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] Bachelor in Computer Engineering, Polytechnical University of Catalonia - FIB (Spain)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Professional Experience}
+
+\begin{description}
+\item[] 2023 - present: Computational Scientist at Do IT Now (Spain)
+\item[] 2021 - 2023: HPC Support Engineer at the Barcelona Supercomputing Centre (Spain)
+\end{description}
+
+\subsection*{Tools and Projects}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+    \item[] \emph{MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence}
+        \\Project partner and work package leader (2023--present)
+        \\{\small{\url{https://www.multixscale.eu}}}
+    \item[] \emph{European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)}
+        \\Active contributor and steering committee member (2023--present)
+        \\{\small{\url{https://eessi.io} - \url{https://eessi.io/docs}}}
+ \end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Conferences, Workshops and Tutorials}
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] \emph{Student Cluster Competition}, contestant with the UPC Team, in the edition of ISC'21
+    \\{\small{\url{https://www.hpcwire.com/2021/07/05/isc21-cluster-competition-meet-the-teams/}}}
+\item[] \emph{Integration of a Parallel Efficiency Tool into an HPC production cluster},talk in exhibitor forum in the context of WHPC at ISC'23
+    \\{\small{\url{https://womeninhpc.org/events/isc-2023-exhibitor-forum-takeover}}}
+\item[] \emph{PATC Systems Workshop: Programming MareNostrum 4}, online workshop in context of PRACE, presenter, May 2022
+        \\{\small{\url{https://www.bsc.es/education/training/patc-courses/online-patc-systems-workshop-programming-marenostrum-4-0}}}
+\item[] \emph{Introduction to HPC for Life Scientists}, on-site worskshop in context of PerMedCoE/BioExcel, presenter and Support attendee, March 2023
+        \\{\small{\url{https://www.bsc.es/education/training/other-training/onsite-permedcoebioexcel-introduction-hpc-life-scientists/agenda}}}
+\item[] \emph{About EESSI – European Environment for Scientific Software Installations}, talk, presenter, October 2023
+    \\{\small{\url{https://www.multixscale.eu/training/}}}
+\item[] \emph{Women in HPC 1st MAR Chapter Workshop}, organizer and presenter
+    \\{\small{\url{https://www.bsc.es/news/events/whpc-1st-mar-chapter-workshop}}}
+\item[] \emph{Supporting HPC Centres: Challenges, horror stories and best practices}, EuroPAR, August 2024
+    \\{\small{\url{https://easychair.org/smart-program/Euro-PAR2024/2024-08-30.html}}}
+\item[] \emph{EESSI BoF Session}, Supercomputing, November 2024
+    \\{\small{\url{https://sc24.conference-program.com/presentation/?id=bof126&sess=sess657}}}
+\item[] \emph{Supporting cutting edge development of LAMMPS with EESSI}, speaker at Readiness of HPC Extreme-scale Applications Workshop at ISC25, June 2025
+    \\{\small{\url{https://sc24.conference-program.com/presentation/?id=bof126&sess=sess657}}}
+\item[] \emph{High Performance Computing Communities: Working Together as Regional and National Research Organizations}, Speaker and organizer, ISC25 and SC25
+\item[] \emph{Super(computing)heroes}, Organizer, SC25
+     \\{\small{\url{https://sc25.conference-program.com/presentation/?id=bof129&sess=sess4747}}}
+\item[] \emph{Introduction to EESSI}, online webinar, June 2025
+    \\{\small{\url{https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvVbzKLn-C8}}}
+\item[] \emph{System Administrators in HPC meet-up}, organizer, October 2025
+    \\{\small{\url{https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sysadmins-in-hpc-meet-up-tickets-1642443074449?aff=oddtdtcreator}}}
+\end{itemize}
+
+\subsection*{Publications}
+
+\begin{itemize}
+\item[] H. Vela, M. Garcia-Gasulla, V. Lopez, D. Vicente \emph{Integration of a parallel efficiency tool into an HPC production system }. Poster presented at ISC23 under WHPC. 
+\end{itemize}
+
+\newpage