EESSI - Simplifying software installation in HPC systems

EESSI - Simplifying software installation in HPC systems

From Supercomputing in Europe by HPC in Europe network

March 31, 2026 · 20 min · Season 2 · Episode 12

About this episode

This episode discusses the EESSI project and its role in simplifying software installation for HPC systems.

This episode's guests are Caspar van Leeuwen , Machine Learning Consultant at SURF and Helena Vela Beltran , Computational Scientist at HPCNow and Do IT Now Spain . They are both working at the MultiXscale CoE and the EESSI project , the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, a common stack of scientific software installations for HPC systems and beyond, including laptops,personal workstations and cloud infrastructure.

People in this episode

Guests: Caspar van Leeuwen, Helena Vela Beltran

Topics covered

  • HPC
  • software installation
  • scientific software
  • cloud infrastructure
  • machine learning

Keywords

  • EESSI
  • HPC systems
  • software installation
  • MultiXscale CoE
  • scientific software

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: SURF, HPCNow, Do IT Now Spain, MultiXscale CoE, EESSI, European Environment for Scientific Software Installations

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