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

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

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)

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

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