# 11th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'26)

## Agenda

- keynote ideas (~1h):
- ECMWF
- EuroHPC Federation Platform (CSC, Henrik?)
- flux (by Tom Scogland - LLNL)?
- talk ideas (~30min):
- EasyBuild
- general update/state of the union
- LLVM toolchains (Davide)
- installing 3D remote desktop environment with EasyBuild (Mikael)
- split of build-deploy via "integration" with bwrap (Sam)
- governance (Simon - remote, or Adam)
- separate talk on AI policy?
- The Alliance (Bart Oldeman), with talk on EB+bwrap
- site talks (~15-20min)
- JSC/JUPITER (Sebastian), also covering EESSI deployment
- Deucalion (Bernardo?)
- BEAR?
- OpenPlato? (https://openplato.eu)
- WheelNext (speaker?)
- EESSI (day 3)
- status update + roadmap (~45min?)
- A64FX, Arm (speaker?)
- EESSI build-and-deploy bot (Thomas?)
- EESSI test suite (Caspar?)
- update on CUDA support in EESSI (Caspar?)
- update on AMD GPU (ROCm) support in EESSI (Caspar?)
- EESSI CLI tool (Kenneth)
- Using EESSI as a base for a central software stack (Pedro @ RUG)
- CernVM-FS (on Kubernetes) (Valentin)
- EPICURE
- Spack
- Spack v1.x (Todd, remote, or Max)
- Spack on top of EasyBuild/EESSI (Loris)
- EOSC?
- Likwid - https://github.com/RRZE-HPC/likwid
- JUBE (Thomas Breuer - JSC?)
- https://github.com/adaptyst/adaptyst ? (based on FOSDEM'26 talk)
- Lmod 9.x
- in person by Robert McLay
- OK for Tue or Wed, not for day 3
- `uv` (someone from Astral?)

## Meetings

### 20260218

- update on venue/registration/lunch-cofee-dinner/social event/agenda

### 20260114

- venue
- UN University, awaiting confirmation that dates are free
- ETA: in next couple of days?
- wired internet connection for single laptop possible?
- hotels
- Bernardo/Antonio can provide this
- should include Hotel de Guimarães (4-star, < 100 EUR/night)
- logistics
- fly into Porto
- 40min/9 EUR one way: GET bus from Porto airport to Guimarães - https://www.getbus.eu/en/
- Uber: ~30 EUR
- registration (via UGent Event Manager)
- name, email, affiliation, GitHub account
- dietary restrictions
- (site) talk proposal
- eduroam account or not?
- main interest: EasyBuild, EESSI, both, other topics, ...
- lunch/coffee breaks
- covered by some sponsor: UGent, external sponsor
- price per person for group of ~50 people
- ~30min - 2 coffee breaks (one in morning, one in afternoon)
- lunch break (~1h)
- rough estimate: ~30 EUR/day/person
- group dinner (~7.30-8 PM)
- look for options for 40-50 people
- maximum # people, price per person
- Kenneth will look for potential sponsors
- rough estimate: max. 50 EUR/person
- social event
- (ideally sponsored)
- guided tour of Guimarães?
- ~2 hours
- schedule Wed afternoon 15:00-18:00
- streaming/recording
- Zoom + YouTube
- can be handled fully by Alan O'Cais with his custom gear
- agenda
- welcome 09:00, start 09:30, end by 18:00
- (see draft agenda on top)
- action points
- confirm venue
- share hotel suggestions in EUM'26
- set up registration
- confirm talks/speakers
- next meeting
- Wed 18 Feb'26 10:00 CET
- incl. Alan/Simon/Miguel

### kickoff meeting w/ MACC (20250908)

attendees: Bernardo, Kenneth

- Dates (3 days, Tue-Thu)
- avoid clash with EuroHPC Summit in Cyprus
- week of 16-20 March 2026 (**just a guess based on previous years!**)
- week in April 2026?
- Easter Sunday: 5 April
- preferably not 6-19 April (Easter school holidays in Belgium)
- Tue-Thu 31 Mar-2 April?
- Tue-Thu 21-23 April?
- Tue-Thu 28-30 April?
- Venue (ideally up to in-person 50 participants)
- Porto?
- Antonio has good connections there
- Braga?
- direct bus from Porto airport
- most practical to MACC, but difficult to find good room
- Guimarães?
- home of Deucalion
- direct bus from Porto airport
- suitable (deep) room at UN
- Lisbon?
- quite expensive
- impractical in terms of local organisation
- requirements:
- projector + screen in front
- seats + tables for at least 30 people + up to 20 seat-only
- decent WiFi
- ideally wired internet connection for 1 laptop (for live streaming)
- power sockets for ~20 people (to charge laptops)
- TODO soon:
- [Kenneth] set up webpage @ https://easybuild.io/eum26
- [Kenneth] announce event (save-the-date style) via EasyBuild mailing list & Slack
- Program
- particular topics of interest?
- Catering
- coffee breaks
- lunch
- group dinner(s)
- find restaurants that can host ~50 people
- Sponsoring
- [Kenneth] INUITS
- [Kenneth] Do It Now
- [Kenneth] UGent
- MACC?
- catering (coffee/lunch)?
- venue costs?