6th EasyBuild hackathon

Basic Information

• date: Wednesday June 18th - Friday June 20th 2014
• venue: Vienna Bio Center at the Institute of Molecular Pathology, Dr. Bohrgasse 3-5 (IMBA/GMI building), Vienna, Austria (http://www.gmi.oeaw.ac.at/) - https://www.google.com/maps/place/Doktor-Bohr-Gasse/@48.1894362,16.4016187,17z/
• notes: shortly before the ISC'14 conference in Leipzig, Germany

Attendees

For practical reasons, the number of participants is limited to 25. Please contact Kenneth Hoste to confirm your participation.

list of confirmed attendees:

• Pablo Escobar (Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics - University of Basel, EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Petar Forai (Gregor Mendel Institute of Molecular Plant Biology (GMI), Austria; EasyBuild user and contributor)
• Fotis Georgatos (freelancer, EasyBuild contributor)
• Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer and release manager)
• Robert McLay (Texas Advanced Computing Centre (TACC), US; Lmod developer)
• Jens Timmerman (HPC-UGent, Belgium; EasyBuild developer)
• Aaron Zauner (azet.org, Austria; EasyBuild user and contributor)

Topics

Attendees are free to work on what they want, but a couple of topics of interest are typically attached to each hackathon. The intention is to have discussions on these topics, and that some attendees work on these issues:

• improve integration between Lmod and EasyBuild (Robert, the main/only Lmod developer will be there too)
• how we can further improve/automate the testing of EasyBuild (ad incoming PRs)
• getting rid of Python 2.4 support, moving on to Python 2.6, supporting Python 3.x
• outlook to EasyBuild v2.0: getting rid of deprecated behavior
  • no more Python 2.4 support (move on to only Python 2.6 or more recent 2.x)
  • no more old-style configuration files
  • extra_options return type (should be dict instead of list of tuples)

Agenda

(initial agenda, subject to change)

Wednesday June 18th 2014

• [10am - 12pm] Introduction to EasyBuild, status update, Q&A (Kenneth Hoste)
• [1pm - 3pm] Introduction to Lmod, relation to EasyBuild, Q&A (Robert McLay)
• [3pm - 6pm] Hackathon: getting started, first hands-on experience with EasyBuild and Lmod

Thursday June 19th 2014

• [10am - 6pm] Hackathon
• hands-on introduction to EasyBuild and Lmod, with support from core developers
• work on open issues or software support you care about

Friday June 20th 2014

• [9am - 5pm] Hackathon (continued)

Notes

(none yet)

Hotel suggestions

• Hotels in the 3rd district:

  • http://www.artis-hotels.at/en/artis_hotel_vienna_rennweg/home/index.html
  • http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/viese-imperial-riding-school-renaissance-vienna-hotel/
  • http://www.hoteldaniel.com/en/vienna.html
  • http://www.nh-hotels.com/nh/en/hotels/austria/vienna/nh-belvedere.html
  • http://www.lindner.de/en/LHAB
  • http://www.mercure.com/gb/home/index.shtml

• Hotels in "the city" (all quite expensive):

  • http://www.radissonblu.com/hotels/austria/vienna
  • http://www.imperialvienna.com/
  • http://www.schick-hotels.com/index-hotel-am-parkring-vienna.en.htm
  • http://www.ritzcarlton.com/en/Properties/Vienna/Default.htm
  • http://www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/gb/en/vienna/vieha/hoteldetail?cm_mmc=GoogleMaps-_-ic-_-ATEN-_-vieha