#VoicesOfMultiXscale: Women Driving Innovation
🟣 Lara Peeters, Scientific Software Support in MultiXscale
Ghent University (Belgium)
#WomenAtMultiXscaleCoE #InternationalWomensDay #8March
Spoiler: I have just experienced the first taste of upcoming spring. It’s glorious. ☀️
Facts detected.
See also “scientific” computing software.
The 17TB is 100% real, but for science, it needs to be constrained to a single machine.
On a single core.
No threads.
No MPI.
With one lock file.
On NFS.
/cc @boegel.bsky.social @tgamblin.bsky.social for fun
(we’ve seen things) 🤣
In Belgium, we have *rules* about our beers…
EasyBuild v5.2.1 has just been released!
Highlights available at github.com/easybuilders...
All details available in release notes: docs.easybuild.io/release-note...
#HPC
🔘 Curious about how #EESSI is being integrated in the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) as the base for the Federated Software Catalog?
Don't miss the next EFP webinar on Wednesday 25 February
Discover more here:
➡️ www.multixscale.eu/2026/02/20/u...
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
@eessi.bsky.social
If you're interested in RISC-V, this talk by @fclc.bsky.social from FOSDEM'26 is a must see...
RISC-V had 40 years of history to learn from: What it gets right, and what it gets hilariously wrong
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
#riscv
New blog post by Renato Alves (EMBL)
Easy EESSI at EMBL
www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...
@embl.org
New blog post by Loris Ercole (CECAM):
Using Spack on Top of EESSI: Best of Both Worlds
www.eessi.io/docs/blog/20...
#HPC #community
Are you interested to learn how EESSI is being integrated in the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP) as the base for the Federated Software Catalog?
Join the next EFP webinar on Wed 25 Feb'26 at 14:00 CET, register here: my-eurohpc.eu/training/#we...
@eurohpc-ju.bsky.social
4,300 screams later?
Opening a PR may also help other people using that project who are hitting that same bug though...
This talk by @richcampbell.bsky.social is well worth your time, go see it.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=65TG...
How Vaccines Work 🧬🧫🧪🔬💉🥽
Excellent talk by Xavier Delaruelle (lead of @envmodules.bsky.social) on the High Performance Software Foundation (HPSF, hpsf.io) at the #HPC devroom at FOSDEM'26 last weekend.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=-DdF...
We had a great time at #FOSDEM at the HPC, Big Data & Data Science devroom & dinner!
If you missed Xavier Delaruelle’s talk on HPSF, view it on our YouTube channel: youtu.be/-DdFXt5wLL0?...
Photos provided by @boegel.bsky.social 📸
A pile of stickers
#FOSDEM sticker love
I now have a consulting page on my website: https://nesbitt.io/consulting/
It's not too late yet to register for the first introductory webinar on the upcoming EuroHPC Federation Platform on Wed 4 Feb'26 13:00-14:00 CET!
Registration for 2nd webinar on the Federated Software Catalog based on EESSI is also open now.
More info via my-eurohpc.eu/training/
Speaker point of view at FOSDEM’26 Main Track in room K.1.105
Happy people at HPC devroom dinner sponsored by HPSF
More happy people during HPC devroom group dinner sponsored by HPSF
View on full HPC devroom at FOSDEM’26
Looking back to amazing #FOSDEM weekend.
Best one ever for me, for a broad variety of reasons: my first talk in Main Track, group dinner sponsored by #HPSF, super smooth #HPC devroom thanks to volunteers, other devrooms that I supported a bit being run well, noticeable increase in young attendees, …
Repeat this five times fast!
"Ask in the spack slack for help to install spark in a stack using a spec"
Great talk always KH!
#hpc #ai #cloud
If you'vee ever spent some time installing packages, you have to check this talk! You'll definitely laugh, and maybe cry a little remembering the days spent installing (or at least trying) your most dreaded piece of software. I've spent 15+ years doing that, I can tell you everything is true
The recording of my "How to Make Package Managers Scream" talk at FOSDEM'26 is now available, enjoy!
youtu.be/PBlDHlFnzGo
A handful of seats left in #HPC devroom at #FOSDEM, come join us!
We’re in a black box in H1308 this year, but there’s a pleasant flow of fresh air…
Current talk is by Tobias Kremer (ECMWF) on Zarr
More info via fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
Is it just me, or is #FOSDEM busier than ever this year?
Today is the day…
The sequel to “How To Make Package Managers Cry”, 1000 (base 2) years later.
#FOSDEM in Brussels, Sat 31 Jan’26 at 17:00 CET in room K.1.105 (Main Track).
~800 seats, hopefully some get filled.
Don’t miss it, grab a beer and bring it with you! 🍺
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
For the first time, Chapel will be represented at @fosdem.org!
If you will be at FOSDEM 2026, make sure to stop by the HPC, Big Data & Data Science track on Sunday and see Jade Abraham talk about Productive Parallel Computing in Chapel and Arkouda.
fosdem.org/2026/schedul...
I'm excited for Jade Abraham to be representing the Chapel Programming Language project at FOSDEM for the first time in our project's history this week! If you're there, be sure to catch their talk!
@fosdem.org
@chapellanguage.bsky.social
Another #FOSDEM advice: you won't find power outlets at the campus. Arrange so that your devices last through the day without getting plugged in.
