# Request for AWS sponsored credits for EESSI + EasyBuild

- 2021 credits allowed EESSI to build out infrastructure
- goals for 2022 is to become more ambitious, expand scope
- build nodes for variety of CPU architectures to automate workflow of deploying software with GitHub App
- scalability testing of various software with EFA
- testing of TensorFlow & co on Arm GPU instances
- Slurm test cluster for EasyBuild on Graviton2/3