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title: EUM’24

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# EUM'24

next sync meetings:
- Fri 5 April 2024, 09:00 CEST
    - sending email with practical info to everyone who registered
- Wed 17 April 2024, 10:15 CEST (OK for Åke, Kenneth, Simon)
    - sending email to virtual attendees
    - prepare Zoom meeting to live strea

## Registrations

(update 2024-03-27)

- 19 on-site registrations
    - +4 at least (Kenneth, Lara, Miguel, Adam)
    - maybe also Sebastian?
- 32 virtual registrations


## Arrival times

- Lara + Kenneth: touchdown in Umeå Monday ~15:25 CEST
- Simon + BEAR + Jasper: Umeå at ~15:25 CEST

## Dates

Tue-Thu 23-25 April 2024

## Venue

- Umeå University, Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science building)
- OK for ~60 people

### Audio & video setup

- wired connection for 1 laptop (live streaming)
- WiFi (eduroam)

## Practical stuff

- badges/name stickers
- some kind of swag?
    - Kenneth will bring stickers

### Catering

- venue
    - covered by HPC2N?
- coffee breaks
    - estimate? 20-30 people
- lunch
    - on-site restaurant
    - can reserve seats
    - ~100 SKR/~10 EUR each (self-funded?)
- dinner (where?)
    - Monday: ??? (downtown)
    - Tonka Strandgatan, funded via Umeå? (Tue)
    - Gotthards krog (Wed)
    - Italian pasta/pizza place (Thu)
    - group rates?
    - cost per person for each dinner?
- sponsors?
    - AWS, Azure, NVIDIA, AMD, INUITS, ...
    - Umeå => dinner?
        - requires program...
    - HPC2N => coffee?

## Organisers

- Åke, Lars, Kenneth, Lara

## Scope

- EasyBuild
- EESSI

## Agenda

### Tue 23 April 2024

[09:00] meet & greet + registration
[10:30] EasyBuild State of the Union (Kenneth)
[12:30] *lunch*
[13:30-15:00] Keynote: The EUPILOT approach to RISC-V-based supercomputing (Miguel)
[15:00-15:30] *coffee break*
[15:30-17:00] EasyBuild 5.0 + discussion & hands-on (Simon + Kenneth)
[17:00] *end*
[18:30] dinner

### Wed 24 April 2024

[09:00] (20min) EasyBuild @ Umeå (Åke)
[09:20] (20min) EasyBob (Jörg)
[09:40] (20min) EasyBuild @ BEAR (speaker(s) TBD)
[10:00] (30min) PyTorch (Alexander)
[10:30] *coffee*
[11:00] ReFrame update (Vasileios - remote)
[11:30] Blablador (Alexandre Strube)
[12:00] How I became an EasyBuild maintainer (Adam)
[12:30] *lunch*
[13:15] EasyBuild site talk (~20min each)
    * VUB (Cintia)
    * TU Dresden (Alexander)
    * CSCS (Luca)
    * JSC (Sebastian?)
[14:45]  "A splash of color" (Mikael)
[15:00] *coffee*
[15:30] (45min) Spack update (Todd, remote)
    * confirmed by Kenneth via Slack
    * TODO: send email + calendar invite
[16:15] [social event] *tour* of Umeå datacenter (10 min walk + 15min tour)
[17:00] *end*
[18:30] dinner

### Thu 25 April 2024 (EESSI)

[09:00] **[TO BE CONFIRMED]** Talk on training LLMs by Swedish National Library
[09:30] (30min) Intro to EESSI + current status (Lara)
[10:00] (30min) Contributing to EESSI (Kenneth)
[10:30] *coffee*
[10:30] Installing datasets (Sam)
[10:50] hands-on with EESSI
    * sysadmin focus
    * end user focus
    * contributor focus
[12:30] *lunch*
[13:30] Eocsyste.ms (Andrew, remote) [CONFIRMED]
[14:30] EESSI beyond the basics: GPU support, test suite, GitHub Actions, ... (Kenneth?)
[15:00] *coffee*
[15:30] CernVM-FS experience report at The Alliance (Bart - remote)
[16:15] Open discussion, more hands-on, etc.
[17:00] *end*
[18:30] dinner

### Talks to schedule

(none)

### Others ideas

- remote talk by The Alliance on their CernVM-FS setup in Canada
- LLM talk (Umeå group) => Åke will check with them
- SKA talk (via Caspar/Kenneth, being checked)
- Peter Larsson (via Åke) => can't
- Niclas Janssen (Gordon Bell prize shortlist, talk at EuroHPC User Day, see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgs3ZFOTy4E) => Kenneth to contact?
- RISC-V keynote talk
    - Nick Brown @ EPCC (via Kenneth)
    - Julian @ BSC (via MultiXscale/Kenneth)
    - Ludovic Henry on (cfr. https://fosdem.org/2024/schedule/event/fosdem-2024-2643-lessons-from-porting-software-to-risc-v-rise/) => Kenneth to contact?

## Funding / sponsors

- funding via HPC2N + possibly Umeå univ conference funds
- possible funding from NAISS
- AWS/Azure
- UGent (probably not...)

## Random things

- Fix guest card for Kenneth the week before (ÅS)


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## Email with practical info (on-site attendees) - version for EUM'24

subject: `Practical information for on-site attendees of 9th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'24, 23-25 April 2024)`

body:
```
Dear EasyBuilders,

Believe it or not, the 9th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'24) is almost upon us!
We're looking forward to meeting you (again) next week in Umeå, Sweden.

This message contains practical information for the event.
Please take some time to read it carefully and store it in a safe place where you can find it easily later.


### Group dinner menu selections

**Important**: for the group dinners, we need answers to the 2 questions below from you ASAP (no later than this Friday):

1) Tuesday dinner:
   Pick the meat (Porchetta) or fish option (Baked char fillet) for the main course from the Tonka 3-course menu in attachment.
   If the proposed menu doesn't work for you due to dietary requirements,
   please let us know ASAP so we can ask the restaurant for an alternative.

2) Wednesday dinner:
   Select a main course + side dish(es) from the dinner menu at The Square:
   https://gotthardskrog.se/en/square/#meny-dinner-restaurant

*** Please provide answers to these questions by replying to this message (to eum@lists.ugent.be) no later than Friday 19 April'24! ***


### Contact

In case of questions, please contact eum@lists.ugent.be, which is monitored by multiple people.
Your message will be queued for moderation at first, but will be accepted to be distributed to the EUM'24 organisers.

You can also reach the EUM'24 organisers via the #eum channel in the EasyBuild Slack (see below).

In case of last-minute issues, you can contact Kenneth via +32 478 22 61 70 (phone call, text, WhatsApp, Signal, Telegram), or Åke via +46 70 771 61 34 (phone call, text).


### Slack channel

There is a dedicated channel #eum in the EasyBuild Slack (direct link: https://easybuild.slack.com/archives/CFM8FPQUQ), where you can get in touch with other people attending the meeting, or people watching the live stream.

This is the recommended channel to discuss the EUM'24 talks, or to raise questions for the EUM'24 speakers - a moderator will keep an eye on this channel throughout the event and raise questions if time allows to do so.

To join the EasyBuild Slack (https://easybuild.slack.com), you can self-request an invitation via https://easybuild.io/join-slack.


### Monetary info

Since Sweden is nowadays mostly cash-free you will need to pay with card (Visa, Mastercard) for almost everything. This includes busses and taxis.

Keep in mind that local currency is Swedish krona (SEK), not Euro.


### Venue

Samhällsvetarhuset (Social Science building)
Room SAM.A.371 (https://use.mazemap.com/#v=1&campusid=289&zlevel=2&center=20.304415,63.821499&zoom=18&sharepoitype=poi&sharepoi=777556)
Umeå University

Nearest bus stops are University hospital using line 1 (Ö. Ersboda), 5 (Strömpilen), 8 (Tomtebo), 9 (Carlshöjd) or "Samhällsvetarhuset" using line 1 (first stop after the hospital). Note that bus routes run in two opposite directions, take care to toward the correct end stop.
See https://www.tabussen.nu/ultra/english/where-can-i-buy-tickets/ for more info.


### Agenda

A detailed agenda is available at: https://easybuild.io/eum24/#program .

All times below are Central European Summer Time (CEST) - https://time.is/CEST

Tuesday 23th April 2024:

- Welcome from 09:00 CEST
- First talk 10:30 CEST
- Expected end 17:00 CEST

Wednesday 24th April 2024:

- First talk 09:00 CEST
- Expected end 17:00 CEST

Thursday 25th April 2024:

- First talk 09:00 CEST
- Expected end 17:00 CEST


### Group dinners

You must be pre-registered to attend the dinners or social event.
Please do let us know if, either, you did not register for any of these and now wish to attend; or if you did register for any of these and are now unable to attend.

The restaurants for the first two days would appreciate if everyone made at least a "most likely" choice so they can prepare, especially for people with dietary requirements.

* Tuesday 23th April 2024 - 18:30 CEST – group dinner

sponsored by HPCNow!

Tonka Strandgatan, https://tonkaumea.se/strandgatan/treratters/
address: Östra Strandgatan 24

12-min walk from downtown Umeå or 35 minute from EUM'24 venue


* Wednesday 24th April 2024 - 18:30 CEST – group dinner

sponsored by INUITS

Gotthards krog, https://gotthardskrog.se/en/square/
address: Storgatan 46

5-min walk from downtown Umeå or 45 min from EUM'24 venue


* Thursday 25th April 2024 – 18:30 CEST - group dinner

O'Learys, https://olearys.se/en-us/umea/
address: Skolgatan 64D

Just opposite the central bus stop in Umeå



Don't hesitate to contact us via eum@lists.ugent.be or via the #eum channel in the EasyBuild Slack in case of questions.

regards,

the EUM'24 organisers
Åke, Kenneth, Lara, Lars, Simon
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## Email with practical info (remote attendees) - version for EUM'24

