@asb Interesting!
Which hardware are these bots running on? Or is this through QEMU?

Does anyone know if there are still computer nerds (or computer history musea) out there that are looking for ancient historical gems like this, a DEC Alpha 21164 system?
No idea if it still works.
If someone is interested, or if you know someone I can reach out to, let me know.

EasyBuild now has a blog!

https://blog.easybuild.io

First post is a report on the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25) -> https://blog.easybuild.io/2025/03/28/eum25

To celebrate the launch of the EasyBuild/EESSI shop last week, a couple of additional items have been added.

This is a special offer: these items are only available *today*, and the supply is limited!

Take a look and place your orders before the provider runs out of stock:

https://shop.easybuild.io

@easybuild @fzj_jsc When I grow up, I want to give talks like Jeff Hammond (@jeffscience) …

Great keynote!

Great keynote by Jeff Hammond (NVIDIA) to kick off day two of the 10th EasyBuild User Meeting taking place at @fzj_jsc

Slides will be available soon via https://easybuild.io/eum25/#program
Recorded live-stream available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-4ph2vryiw

Join us 26-MAR-2025 1700 UTC online at https://aka.ms/hpc_hallway/ to mark 5 years of #HPChuddle / #HPChallway - the weekly open informal online gathering of #HPC people set up 5 years ago to support our HPC community networking as in-person meetings closed down - and later inspiring the creation of https://hpc.social/

https://hpc-hallway.github.io/The-Hallway/

This community videocall has happened every week of 5 years since the 1st gathering in March 2020 (missing a few over December holidays).

@easybuild To celebrate the release of EasyBuild v5.0.0, I am giving away a *free EasyBuild coffee mug* to the first person at the EuroHPC Summit in Kraków this week who can show me hands-on that they have installed EasyBuild v5.0.0.

Send me a message in LinkedIn or the EasyBuild Slack if you want to meet up!

Were please to announce the release of the long-awaited EasyBuild v5.0.0 !

A high-level overview of changes is available at https://docs.easybuild.io/easybuild-v5

More details in the release notes: https://docs.easybuild.io/release-notes/#release_notes_eb500

Thanks to everyone who contributed to this release in one way or another!

@ashwinvis *raises hand*

We're hiring!
https://jobs.ugent.be/job/Gent-Software-Integration-Specialist-EuroHPC-Federation-Platform-9000/815106302

Join the HPC team at Ghent University to help integrate EESSI into the EuroHPC Federation Platform over the next couple of years.

Apply by 23 March 2025.

If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me directly.

#HPC #jobs

@jeffscience All in-person seats are booked, but remote attendance is still possible!

https://easybuild.io/eum25/

All seats for attending the 10th (!) EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM'25) at Jülich Supercomputing Centre ( @fzj_jsc ) are taken!

Full program is available via https://easybuild.io/eum25/#program

Registration for virtual attendance via Zoom is still open: https://event.ugent.be/registration/eum .

You'll miss out on the swag though…

#HPC #community

@pulkomandy @BrodieOnLinux @me I heard that the church will now house quantum computers instead…

The 2nd beta release of EasyBuild v5.0.0 (EasyBuild v5.0.0beta2) is now available!

Please consider testing this beta release...

More details, including highlighted changes, installation instructions, planned additional changes are available via https://docs.easybuild.io/easybuild-v5/release-candidates

#HPC

@RichiH It definitely was tasty and interesting!

For anyone interested in LLMs, in particular how they're able to do what they do today, this is a must see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xTGNNLPyMI

Andrej Karpathy (co-founder of OpenAI) does an amazing job at explain how modern LLMs are trained, and give a ton of insights on caveats.

Over the next couple of years the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) will be integrated into the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP)

More information via https://www.eessi.io/docs/blog/2025/02/10/integration-efp

The development effort started Jan 2025, and is funded by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking.

Quoting Henrik Nortamo, technical lead of the EFP consortium:
“This would not be possible without open source.”

#HPC

Another #FOSDEM ask/offer:

We are actively interested in loaning our video boxes to other conferences. If you want an easy, #opensource, and #openhardware way to record video and laptop, do let me know.
https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-6832-fosdem-videobox-2025/ for details.

And yes, they frickeled the microphones just before the talk, normally the sound quality is good. We're aware of the irony :)

Retoots appreciated, as always.

@RichiH Oh really…
That’s good to know!