[Beowulf] EasyBuild User Meeting EUM26 and EESSI

[Benson Muite]

Hi Jörg

On Tue, Apr 7, 2026, at 1:35 PM, Jörg Saßmannshausen via Beowulf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> it gives me great pleasure to announce just after Easter the upcoming 
> EasyBuild User Meeting (EUM26) which will happen in Guimarães/Portugal 
> between the 21.4. to 23.4. This is a hybrid meeting, and the on-site 
> registration is already full. However, thanks to Zoom, it is still 
> possible to register for a remote attendance here:
> https://easybuild.io/eum26

The online registration shows seats open, but the form does not have a
submission button.

>
> Registration is required if you want to actively participate and want to 
> ask questions. I am aware that there might be a huge time difference 
> between your location and the conference time zone. However, like 
> always, the talks will also be available on YouTube later, but then you 
> will not be able to ask questions of course.
>
> Also, there are quite some webinars around EESSI, the European 
> Environment for Scientific Software Installation, in April and May:
> https://www.eessi.io/docs/training-events/2026/webinar-series-2026Q2/
>
> Again, to actively participate you will need to register.
>
> EESSI is a way to use pre-build high performant software, which is made 
> available via CernVM-FS, so there is no need to build the same software 
> over and over again. Furthermore, you can build on top of it which means 
> quite some of the already existing high performant libraries for your 
> CPU architecture might be already available. Have look at that in more 
> detail at their website, or sign up for the webinars which are promising 
> to be good.
>
> All the best from a sunny London!
>
> Jörg