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@adammccartney Looks really nice, found some small issues that can easily be tackled with minimal effort, so let's fix those and then publish?
| computing and research powered by scientific software. The flagship | ||
| cluster VSC-1 was in service from 2009-2015, succeeded by a series of | ||
| clusters (2-5)[^1]. VSC 4 and 5 are the two clusters that remain in | ||
| service as of 2025, they will be joined at the end of the year by a new |
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@adammccartney Nitpicking, but this part doesn't make sense for a blog post published in March 2026?
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Agree, it's probably still relevant, but the dates need to be brought up to date.
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| out against a set of high level user requirements that we agreed. | ||
| Outcome was to focus on Easybuild and EESSI. | ||
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| Working group established and a broad set of tools and approaches were | ||
| compared. Guix/Nix, Spack, EasyBuild, EESSI, Lmod, and ReFrame These |
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| compared. Guix/Nix, Spack, EasyBuild, EESSI, Lmod, and ReFrame These | |
| compared. Guix/Nix, Spack, EasyBuild, EESSI, Lmod, and ReFrame. These |
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Also, I'm not sure how ReFrame makes sense in this list, since that's a tool for software regression testing?
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Yeah, this needs a bit of clarification, see c339705#diff-8dd9ac9a1f8587fad11ece3b23c87de9caaa370b143293ba6171f07a31f006b9R141
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| In June 2024, the system entered a closed test phase, with core software |
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Seems like this should be 2025?
| In June 2024, the system entered a closed test phase, with core software | |
| In June 2025, the system entered a closed test phase, with core software |
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Thanks, I'll actually add two more small sections here that cover the closed and open test phases.
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Co-authored-by: Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste@ugent.be>
Co-authored-by: Kenneth Hoste <kenneth.hoste@ugent.be>
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I wrote this after our initial experiments with Easybuild and EESSI back in the Spring of 2025.
Edited recently, kept most of the same points and tried to summarize a bit as to why we eventually chose EESSI as a basis for the new software stack on MUSICA at ASC.