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Work in progress

(30 April 2025)

The contents of this tutorial are currently being reworked to be up-to-date with recent developments in CernVM-FS, and to be well integrated in the EESSI documentation.

It is based on the "Best Practices for CernVM-FS in HPC" tutorial that was held on 4 Dec 2023, see also https://multixscale.github.io/cvmfs-tutorial-hpc-best-practices.

What is EESSI?

The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI, pronounced as "easy") is a collaboration between different European partners in the HPC (High Performance Computing) community.

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EESSI provides a common stack of optimized scientific software installations that work on any Linux distribution, and currently supports both x86_64 (AMD/Intel) and aarch64 (Arm 64-bit) systems, which is distributed via CernVM-FS.

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