[Beowulf] Fwd: [EESSI] "Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC" online tutorial on Mon 4 Dec 2023 (13:30-17:00 CET)

[Jörg Saßmannshausen]

Dear all,

just in case you are interested, there is a EESSI online tutorial coming 
up. EESSI is a way to share microarchitecture-specific and thus highly 
optimised software and the good thing here is: it is already build, so 
we don't need to build that for ourselves. As it is basically mounted, 
and due to the OS abstraction layer, it is meant to run on any Linux 
system, as well as Windows (Windows Subsystem for Linux).

Regards

Jörg

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Subject: [EESSI] "Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC" online tutorial 
on Mon 4 Dec 2023 (13:30-17:00 CET)
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2023 09:04:02 +0100
From: Kenneth Hoste <000002e68c3bfd33-dmarc-request at LIST.RUG.NL>
Reply to: European Environment for Scientific Soft <EESSI at LIST.RUG.NL>
To: EESSI at LIST.RUG.NL

Dear EESSI community,

On Monday 4 December 2023 (13:30-17:00 CET) we are organising a half-day 
online introductory tutorial on CernVM-FS (https://cernvm.cern.ch/fs), 
via Zoom, in collaboration with the CernVM-FS development team.

CernVM-FS, the CernVM File System (also known as CVMFS), is a file 
distribution service that is particularly well suited to distribute 
software installations across a large number of systems world-wide in an 
efficient way.

The focus of this tutorial is on explaining what CernVM-FS is, how to 
access existing CernVM-FS repositories (like EESSI, see 
https://eessi.io/docs), and covering some aspects specific to using 
CernVM-FS on HPC systems.
It is intended for people with a background in HPC (system 
administrators, support team members, end users, etc.) who are new to 
CernVM-FS: no specific prior knowledge or experience with it is required.

High-level preliminary agenda (subject to minor changes):

- What is CernVM-FS?
- European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI)
- Accessing a CernVM-FS repository
- Configuring CernVM-FS on HPC infrastructure
- Troubleshooting and debugging CernVM-FS
- Performance aspects of CernVM-FS
- Different storage backends for CernVM-FS
- Containers and CernVM-FS
- Getting started with CernVM-FS (from scratch)

If you would like to attend this tutorial, please register via:

	https://event.ugent.be/registration/cvmfshpc202312


Please help us promote this event, by sharing it with colleagues and 
friends, and/or posting this event announcement on appropriate channels.


regards,

Kenneth
on behalf of the tutorial organisers

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