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EasyBuild is a software build and installation framework in Python that allows you to install software in a structured, repeatable and robust way.

Documentation

These wiki pages contain as the EasyBuild documentation.

NOTE: The wiki pages are in need of a serious update, we're working on it.

For EasyBuild users

• What is EasyBuild? (updated)
• License
• Dependencies (updated)
  • Installing environment modules without root permissions (up-to-date)
  • Installing lmod without root permissions (up-to-date)
• Installing EasyBuild (updated)
• Bootstrapping EasyBuild (ok, up-to-date)
• Setting up tab completion for bash (ok, up-to-date)
• Quick demo for the impatient (updated)
• Getting started (ok, but need update to new style configuration)
• Configuration (updated)
• Using EasyBuild
• Automatic dependency resolution
• OS-specific notes
• Step-by-step guide
• Compiler toolchains (up-to-date)
• Easyconfig files (updated, may need work)
• Examples
• List of supported software packages (updated) (legacy list here)
• Conference calls
• FAQ (updated, may need additional entries)
• Contact
• Other tools

For EasyBuild developers

• Development guide
• API documentation (framework, easyblocks): stable (master) - develop (automatically updated)
• Setting up your own easyblocks repository (ok, up-to-date)
• Encode class names
• Tutorial: building WRF after adding support for it (ok, up-to-date)
• Packaging and versioning
• Unit and regression testing (ok, up-to-date)
• Release process (ok, up-to-date)
• Release schedule (ok, up-to-date)
• Using a custom module naming scheme (ok, up-to-date)
• Contributing back
• Code style
• Contributing to the EasyBuild documentation wiki
• Experimental repo

Presentations

• April 2012 @ HEPIX spring workshop 2012: EasyBuild: building software with ease, by Jens Timmerman (slides (PDF), EasyBuild v.0.5)
• November 2012 @ PyHPC-2012 workshop at Supercomputer 2012 conference: EasyBuild: Building Software With Ease, by Kenneth Hoste, Jens Timmerman, Andy Georges and Stijn Deweirdt (paper, slides full talk (PDF), EasyBuild v1.0)
• February 2013 @ FOSDEM'13: EasyBuild lightning talks in FOSS for Scientists and Python devrooms (EasyBuild v1.1)
• March 2013 @ 3rd EasyBuild hackathon: EasyBuild: Building Software With Ease, by Kenneth Hoste (slides (PDF), EasyBuild v1.2)
• June 2013 @ ISC'13: BoF session: Best Practices in Building & Installing Scientific Software (slides (PDF), EasyBuild v1.5.0)
• October 2013 @ 4th EasyBuild hackathon: Introduction to EasyBuild, by Kenneth Hoste (slides (PDF), EasyBuild v1.8.2)
• November 2013 @ SC13 BoF session: EasyBuild lightning talk, by Andy Georges (slides (PDF), EasyBuild v1.9.0)

Videos

• Introduction to EasyBuild (Oct'13, EasyBuild v1.8.2)
• WRF example use case (Oct'13, EasyBuild v1.8.2)
• EasyBuild status update (Oct'13, EasyBuild v1.8.2)

Meetings

EasyBuild hackathons

• 1st EasyBuild hackathon: Aug. 16th-17th 2012, Ghent (Belgium)
• 2nd EasyBuild hackathon: Nov. 28th-29th 2012, Kirchberg (Luxembourg)
• 3rd EasyBuild hackathon: Mar. 11-13th 2013, Nicosia (Cyprus)
• quick links: EasyBuild presentation - CUDA presentation (NVIDIA) - GPGPU application notes (NVIDIA)
• notes: day 1 - day 2 - day 3
• 4th EasyBuild hackathon: Oct. 22nd-24th 2013, Nicosia (Cyprus)
• quick links: UNITE presentation - EasyBuild introduction - EasyBuild status update
• notes: day 1 - day 2 - day 3
• recorded presentations: Introduction to EasyBuild - WRF example use case - EasyBuild status update
• 5th EasyBuild hackathon: Feb. 19th-21st 2014, Jülich (Germany)
• EasyBuild introduction slides
• notes: day 1 - day 2 - day 3
• 6th EasyBuild hackathon: June 18-20th 2014, Vienna (Austria)

Conferences and meetings

• Supercomputing'2012 / PyHPC: EasyBuild was actively promoted at Supercomputing'2012 in Salt Lake City during Birds-of-a-Feather sessions, the PyHPC workshop and the exhibit
• FOSDEM'13: EasyBuild lightning talks in FOSS for Scientists and Python devrooms, by Jens Timmerman and Kenneth Hoste (resp.)
• ISC'13: BoF session "Best Practices in Building & Installing Scientific Software"
• slides (PDF)
• SC13 BoF session: "Getting Scientific Software Installed: Tools and Best Practices"
• FOSDEM'14: "HPC and computational science" devroom (more info soon)

Conference calls

• 20121126 HashDist: Google hangout conf call with Dag Sverre Seljebotn on HashDist and EasyBuild
• [bi-weekly EasyBuild conf calls](Conference calls)