From 2a340893c8638fe32b3db2e8d4d3ac00c49140f7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste@ugent.be>
Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 22:22:15 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] update agenda for EUM'24

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 eum24/index.html | 207 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 168 insertions(+), 39 deletions(-)

diff --git a/eum24/index.html b/eum24/index.html
index ab68f16c..fd0d3772 100644
--- a/eum24/index.html
+++ b/eum24/index.html
@@ -223,7 +223,7 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
         <li><em>(coffee break)</em></br></br></li>
 
         <li><em>[Tue 15:30-17:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-            <a href="#eb5"><strong>EasyBuild 5.0</strong></a></br>
+            <a href="#eb5"><strong>EasyBuild 5.0 (incl. hands-on)</strong></a></br>
             <em>Simon Branford (University of Birmingham)</em>
         </br></br></li>
         
@@ -233,36 +233,54 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
     <li style="list-style-type: none"><strong>Wednesday 24 April 2024</strong></br></br></li>
     <ul>
         
-        <li><em>[Wed 09:00-09:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <li><em>[Wed 09:00-09:20 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
             <a href="#eb-site-umea"><strong>EasyBuild @ Umeå University</strong></a></br>
             <em>by Åke Sandgren (Umeå University)</em>
         </br></br></li>
         
-        <li><em>[Wed 09:30-10:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <li><em>[Wed 09:20-09:40 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
             <a href="#easybob"><strong>EasyBob, the friendly software installation bot</strong></a></br>
             <em>by Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)</em>
         </br></br></li>
         
-        <li><em>[Wed 10:00-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <li><em>[Wed 09:40-10:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
             <a href="#eb-site-bear"><strong>EasyBuild @ University of Birmingham</strong></a></br>
             <em>by ??? (University of Birmingham)</em>
         </br></br></li>
 
+        <li><em>[Wed 10:00-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            <a href="#pytorch"><strong>PyTorch</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Alexander Grund (TU Dresden)</em>
+        </br></br></li>
+
         <li><em>(coffee break)</em></br></br></li>
 
-        <li><em>[Wed 11:00-11:45 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-        <em><strong>talk</strong> (more info soon)</em>
+        <li><em>[Wed 11:00-11:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            <a href="#reframe"><strong>Recent advances in ReFrame</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Vasileios Karakasis (NVIDIA) - <strong>remote</strong></em>
         </br></br></li>
 
-        <li><em>[Wed 11:45-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-        <em><strong>talk</strong> (more info soon)</em>
+        <li><em>[Wed 11:30-12:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            <a href="#blablador"><strong>Blablador</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Alexandre Strube (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)</em>
+        </br></br></li>
+
+        <li><em>[Wed 12:00-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            <a href="#maintainer"><strong>How I became an EasyBuild maintainer</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford)</em>
         </br></br></li>
 
         <li><em>(lunch break)</em></br></br></li>
 
         <li><em>[Wed 13:30-15:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-        <em><strong>EasyBuild site talks</strong> (more info soon)</em>
-        </br></br></li>
+            <a href="#site-talks"><strong>EasyBuild site talks</strong>:</a></br>
+            <ul>
+                <li>Vrije Universiteit Brussel <em>(Cintia Willemyns)</em></li>
+                <li>TU Dresden <em>(Alexander Grund)</em></li>
+                <li>CSCS <em>(Luca Marsella)</em></li>
+                <li>JSC <em>(Sebastian Achilles)</em></li>
+            </ul>
+        </li>
         
         <li><em>(coffee break)</em></br></br></li>
 
@@ -280,20 +298,29 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
     <li style="list-style-type: none"><strong>Thursday 25 April 2024</strong> <em>(focused on <a href="https://www.eessi.io">EESSI</a> project)</em></br></br></li>
     <ul>
+
+        <li><em>[Thu 09:00-09:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <em><strong>(talk)</strong> (to be confirmed, more info soon)</em>
+        </br></br></li>
         
-        <li><em>[Thu 09:00-09:45 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <li><em>[Thu 09:30-10:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
             <a href="#eessi-intro"><strong>Introduction to EESSI</strong></a></br>
-            <em>by (speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+            <em>by Lara Peeters (Ghent University)</em>
         </br></br></li>
         
-        <li><em>[Thu 09:45-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <li><em>[Thu 10:00-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
             <a href="#eessi-contributing"><strong>Contributing to EESSI</strong></a></br>
-            <em>by (speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+            <em>by Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University)</em>
         </br></br></li>
 
         <li><em>(coffee break)</em></br></br></li>
         
-        <li><em>[Thu 11:00-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+        <li><em>[Thu 11:00-11:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            <a href="#datasets"><strong>Installing datasets</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)</em>
+        </br></br></li>
+
+        <li><em>[Thu 11:30-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
             <a href="#eessi-handson"><strong>Hands-on with EESSI: getting access, user experience, contributing</strong></a>
         </br></br></li>
 
@@ -303,21 +330,21 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
             <a href="#ecosystems"><strong>Ecosyste.ms: Exploring Open Source Software Landscapes</strong></a></br>
             <em>by Andrew Nesbitt - <strong>remote</strong></em>
         </br></br></li>
-        
+
         <li><em>[Thu 14:30-15:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-            <a href="#eessi-gpu"><strong>GPU support in EESSI</strong></a></br>
-            <em>by (speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+            <a href="#eessi-gpu"><strong>EESSI beyond the basics: GPU support, test suite, GitHub Actions, ...</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Kenneth Hoste (Ghent University)</em>
         </br></br></li>
 
         <li><em>(coffee break)</em></br></br></li>
         
-        <li><em>[Thu 15:30-16:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-            <a href="#eessi-test-suite"><strong>EESSI test suite</strong></a></br>
-            <em>by (speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+        <li><em>[Thu 15:30-16:15 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            <a href="#cvmfs"><strong>CernVM-FS experience report</strong></a></br>
+            <em>by Bart Oldeman (Digital Research Alliance of Canada) - <strong>remote</strong></em>
         </br></br></li>
 
-        <li><em>[Wed 16:00-17:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
-        <em><strong>2 talks?</strong> (more info soon)</em>
+        <li><em>[Thu 16:15-17:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>]</em></br>
+            Open discussion, more hands-on, etc.
         </br></br></li>
 
         <li><em>[18:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a>] (group dinner)</em></br></br></li>
@@ -390,7 +417,7 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <a id="eb-site-umea"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 09:00-09:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 09:00-09:20 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
 <strong>EasyBuild site presentation: Umeå University</strong>
 <br/><em>
 by Åke Sandgren (Umeå University)</em>
@@ -400,7 +427,7 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <a id="easybob"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 09:30-10:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 09:20-09:40 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
 <strong>EasyBob, the friendly software installation bot</strong>
 <br/><em>
 by Jörg Saßmannshausen (Imperial College London, UK)</em>
@@ -422,7 +449,7 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <a id="eb-site-bear"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 10:00-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 09:40-10:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
 <strong>EasyBuild site presentation: University of Birmingham</strong>
 <br/><em>
 by ??? (University of Birmingham)</em>
@@ -430,6 +457,88 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <hr>
 
+<a id="pytorch"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 10:00-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<strong>PyTorch</strong>
+<br/><em>
+by Alexander Grund (TU Dresden)</em>
+<br/>
+
+<hr>
+
+<a id="reframe"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 11:00-11:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - <strong>remote</strong>]</em><br/>
+<strong>Recent advances in ReFrame</strong>
+<br/><em>
+by Vasileios Karakasis (NVIDIA)</em>
+<p>
+In this talk, I will give a status update on ReFrame presenting the new features and enhancements since last year’s EUM.
+I will also give an outlook for the future developments.
+</p><br/>
+
+<hr>
+
+<a id="blablador"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 11:30-12:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<strong>Blablador</strong>
+<br/><em>
+by Alexandre Strube (Jülich Supercomputing Centre)</em>
+<p>
+Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) like chatGPT have demonstrated their potential for generating human-like text and reasoning about topics with natural language. However, applying these advanced LLMs requires significant compute resources and expertise that are out of reach for most academic researchers. To make scientific LLMs more accessible, we have developed Helmholtz Blablador, an open-source inference server optimized for serving predictions from customized scientific LLMs.
+</p>
+<p>Blablador provides the serving infrastructure to make models accessible via a simple API without managing servers, firewalls, authentication or infrastructure. Researchers can add their pretrained LLMs to the central hub. Other scientists can then query the collective model catalog via web or using the popular OpenAI api to add LLM functionality in other tools, like programming IDEs.
+</p><p>
+This enables a collaborative ecosystem for scientific LLMs:
+<ul>
+    <li>Researchers train models using datasets and GPUs from their own lab. No need to set up production servers. They
+        can even provide their models with inference happening on cpus, with the use of tools like llama.cpp.</li>
+    <li>Models are contributed to the Blablador hub through a web UI or API call. Blablador handles loading models and
+        publishing models for general use.</li>
+    <li>Added models become available for querying by other researchers.</li>
+    <li>A model catalog displays available LLMs from different labs and research areas.</li>
+</ul>
+Besides that, one can train, quantize, fine-tune and evaluate LLMs directly with Blablador.
+
+The inference server is available at <a href="http://helmholtz-blablador.fz-juelich.de">http://helmholtz-blablador.fz-juelich.de</a>.
+</p><br/>
+
+<hr>
+
+<a id="maintainer"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 12:00-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<strong>How I became an EasyBuild maintainer</strong>
+<br/><em>
+by Adam Huffman (Big Data Institute, Oxford)</em>
+<br/>
+
+<hr>
+
+<a id="site-talks"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 13:30-15:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<strong>EasyBuild site talks</strong>
+<br/>
+<ul>
+    <li><strong>Vrije Universiteit Brussel</strong> <em>(Cintia Willemyns)</em></li>
+    <li><strong>TU Dresden</strong> <em>(Alexander Grund)</em></li>
+    <li><strong>CSCS</strong> <em>(Luca Marsella)</em></br>
+    <div>
+    Current status of the software stack deployment on production systems at CSCS and future plans. 
+    I will describe the current deployment of the software stack that we perform with EasyBuild and provide a high level overview on the future deployment
+    of "User Environments" (<a href="https://confluence.cscs.ch/display/KB/User+Environments+on+Alps">https://confluence.cscs.ch/display/KB/User+Environments+on+Alps</a>)
+    with the tool “stackinator” (<a href="https://eth-cscs.github.io/stackinator">https://eth-cscs.github.io/stackinator</a>) that uses Spack.
+    </div>
+    </li>
+    <li><strong>Jülich Supercomputing Centre</strong> <em>(Sebastian Achilles)</em></li>
+</ul>
+<br/>
+
+<hr>
+
 <a id="spack"/></a>
 <br/><p>
 <em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 15:30-16:15 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - <strong>remote</strong>]</em><br/>
@@ -440,12 +549,22 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <hr>
 
+<a id="tour"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Wed 24 Apr 2024 - 16:15-17:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<strong>tour of Umeå University datacenter</strong>
+<br/><em>
+by Åke Sandgren (Umeå University)</em>
+<br/>
+
+<hr>
+
 <a id="eessi-intro"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 09:00-09:45 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 09:30-10:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
 <strong>Introduction to EESSI</strong>
 <br/><em>
-(speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+by Lara Peeters (HPC-UGent, Belgium)</em>
 <p>
 Introduction to the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) project - <a href="https://eessi.io">https://eessi.io</a>.
 </p><br/>
@@ -454,19 +573,29 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <a id="eessi-contributing"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 09:45-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 10:00-10:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
 <strong>Contributing to EESSI</strong>
 <br/><em>
-(speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+by Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)</em>
 <p>
 Learn how to contribute software to EESSI, including the EESSI build environment and the build-and-deploy bot.
 </p><br/>
 
 <hr>
 
+<a id="datasets"/></a>
+<br/><p>
+<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 11:00-11:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<strong>Installing datasets</strong>
+<br/><em>
+by Sam Moors (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)</em>
+<br/>
+
+<hr>
+
 <a id="eessi-handson"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 11:00-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
+<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 11:30-12:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
 <strong>Hands-on with EESSI</strong>
 <br/>
 <p>
@@ -486,7 +615,7 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 <em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 13:30-14:30 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - <strong>remote</strong>]</em><br/>
 <strong>Ecosyste.ms: Exploring Open Source Software Landscapes</strong>
 <br/><em>
-by Andew Nesbitt - <strong>remote</strong></em>
+by Andrew Nesbitt - <strong>remote</strong></em>
 <p>
 Explore the mapping of open-source software and its usage with <a href="https://ecosyste.ms">Ecosyste.ms</a>.
 Gain valuable insights into the diverse world of OSS, fostering collaboration and enhancing tooling across software ecosystems.
@@ -494,23 +623,23 @@ <h3>Overview</h3>
 
 <hr>
 
-<a id="eessi-gpu"/></a>
+<a id="eessi-beyond"/></a>
 <br/><p>
 <em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 14:30-15:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
-<strong>GPU support in EESSI</strong>
+<strong>EESSI beyond the basics: GPU support, test suite, GitHub Actions, ...</strong>
 <br/><em>
-(speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+by Kenneth Hoste (HPC-UGent, Belgium)</em>
 <p>
 </p><br/>
 
 <hr>
 
-<a id="eessi-test-suite"/></a>
+<a id="cvmfs"/></a>
 <br/><p>
-<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 15:30-16:00 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - on-site]</em><br/>
-<strong>EESSI test suite</strong>
+<em>[Thu 24 Apr 2024 - 15:30-16:15 <a href="https://time.is/CEST">CEST</a> - <strong>remote</strong>]</em><br/>
+<strong>CernVM-FS experience report</strong>
 <br/><em>
-(speaker to be confirmed)</em>
+by Bart Oldeman (Digital Research Alliance of Canada)</em>
 <p>
 </p><br/>