Welcome to the EESSI project documentation!

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What if there was a way to avoid having to install a broad range of scientific software from scratch on every HPC cluster or cloud instance you use or maintain, without compromising on performance?

The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI, pronounced as "easy") is a collaboration between different European partners in HPC community. The goal of this project is to build a common stack of scientific software installations for HPC systems and beyond, including laptops, personal workstations and cloud infrastructure.

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Quick links

• What is EESSI?
• Contact info

For users:

• software.eessi.io repository
• Access, initialize and use EESSI
• Overview of software
• How to run EESSI test suite
• How to use EESSI in CI
  • GitHub Actions
  • GitLab CI/CD
• Get help or report issue

For system administrators:

• EESSI layered structure: filesystem, compatibility, software
• Installing EESSI
• Setting up a mirror server

For contributors:

• Adding software to EESSI
• Meetings

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The EESSI project was covered during a quick AWS HPC Tech Short video (15 June 2023):