EESSI: A Streamed, Production-Quality, Multi-Platform HPC Software Stack

Explore the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) project in this informative 1-hour conference talk. Discover how EESSI aims to provide a ready-to-use stack of production-quality scientific software installations that can be easily leveraged across various platforms, from personal workstations to cloud environments and supercomputer infrastructure. Learn about its advantages over containers, including native existence on host systems with direct hardware access and remote update capabilities for bug fixes and security. Understand the educational benefits of EESSI, such as providing a consistent user experience across all platforms and its potential for integration with other tools like Magic Castle. Gain insights into how EESSI can facilitate collaborative development of training content, such as that developed by HPC Carpentry, and its implications for the future of HPC education and software deployment.

EESSI: A streamed, production-quality, multi-platform HPC software stack