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title: 11th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'26)

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# 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?