# EESSI hackathon (Dec'21) - registration

Dear EESSI enthusiasts,

We are planning an EESSI hackathon during the week of 13-17 December 2021, as a joint focused effort to make some progress on various (small and bigger) tasks in the EESSI project.

If you would like to actively participate, please fill out the doodle ASAP to register and indicate which task(s) you would like to work on:

https://doodle.com/poll/xha7h6pawwuk5xc2

The intention is that you eventually pick a *single* task on which you would like to spend some time on during the hackathon week, together with others (2-5 people max per task).

We will organize 3 short Zoom calls in the context of this hackathon:

- Mon Dec 13th, 09:00 UTC: kickoff
- clarify hackathon format
- overview of tasks
- getting organised: who works on what
- Wed Dec 15th, 09:00 UTC: sync
- progress made, problems to discuss
- Fri Dec 17th, 13:00 UTC: show & tell
- short presentations/demos
- discuss follow-up steps

Significant resources will be set up, including virtual Slurm clusters and GPU instances in both AWS and Azure, and access will be provided to all hackathon participants.

Tasks we have in mind include:

- Nice overview of EESSI software stack
- Installing software on top of EESSI
- Workflow to propose additions to EESSI software stack
- Expand EESSI software stack
- GPU support
- EESSI test suite (ReFrame)
- Monitoring
- Setting up a (private) Stratum-1
- Risk analysis (continued)
- Performance evaluation
- Distribute building of software across multiple nodes
- EasyBuild issues & PRs related to EESSI
- Document resources available to EESSI
- More user-friendly documentation on accessing EESSI
- Set up autoscaling self-hosted GitHub Runners
- Export a version of the EESSI stack to a tarball and/or container image

A "living" overview of these tasks with more information is available at https://hackmd.io/L763hQgRS5Shn04rAbVmWA .

To be clear: we do not expect that all these tasks will be picked up during this hackathon. A subset to focus on will be selected during the kickoff meeting.

Don't hesitate to reach out (in reply to this message, or via the EESSI Slack) if you have any questions!

regards,

Kenneth