EFP Training & Webinars

In this webinar, we will introduce to EuroHPC Federated Platform (EFP), see also https://my-eurohpc.eu .

A high-level overview of the project will be presented, covering the most important features and capabilities of the platform.

The various components of the platform will be briefly covered, which are:

• MyEFP web interface - central entry point to EuroHPC systems;
• EFP AAI - the Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure component (based on MyAccessID);
• EFP Allocations - federated resource allocation, monitoring, and management (based on Waldur);
• EFP Federated Software Stack (based on EESSI);
• EFP Interactive - interactive web-based access (based on Open OnDemand);
• EFP Workflows - federated management of workflows (based on LEXIS);
• EFP Helpdesk;

In addition, updates about the timeline for availability of various features of the platform, which are currently under active development, will be shared. The initial release of the EuroHPC Federation Platform is scheduled for March 2026.

In this webinar, we will introduce the Federated Software Catalogue (FSC) component of the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP ), which will be based on the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI , pronounced as “easy”).

EESSI provides a consistent set of software installations that were optimized for a broad range of specific CPU microarchitectures (Intel, AMD, Arm), including those featured in EuroHPC JU supercomputers. These software installations were built such that they are independent of the host operating system (OS), and only rely on software provided by the host OS where necessary (like GPU drivers). Where desirable, specific custom software installations can be “plugged in”, for example an system-tuned MPI library to enhance the interconnect performance. A select set of software that supports different generations of NVIDIA GPUs is also included in EESSI, while support for AMD GPUs is a work-in-progress.

EESSI is already available on various EuroHPC JU supercomputers today, and is currently being made available on the others.

In addition, EESSI will be integrated into EFP in various ways:

• An overview of the software installations provided by EESSI will be available in the MyEFP web interface via the Software Listing;
• EFP Interactive will rely on EESSI as a backend to power various interactive apps, including a Linux shell environment, JupyterLab and RStudio, a desktop environment to run GUI applications like ParaView and VTK, and specific software like TensorBoard and MLflow;
• Workloads run via EFP Workflows can rely on EESSI to ensure the software required to run a workflow is available in a consistent way across EuroHPC systems;

We will present a short introduction on EESSI and its current status, outline how it is being integrated in EFP as Federated Software Catalogue component, demonstrate how it can be used on EuroHPC JU supercomputers already, and provide an outlook on upcoming improvemnts and enhancements.

In this webinar, we will introduce the EFP Interactive component, which is based on Open OnDemand , and is used for interactive access to the federated resources.

EFP Interactive provides an easy to use web interface, suitable for both new and advanced users. The main features consist of the various interactive applications, file management and job management.

Some examples of interactive applications provided by EFP Interactive are JupyterLab, RStudio, login and compute node shells, and a remote desktop for running GUI applications.

The webinar will consist of an overview and demo of the various features and applications available in EFP Interactive.

In this webinar, we will cover the Authentication & Authorization Infrastructure (AAI) component of the EuroHPC Federation Platform (EFP).

We will outline how it leverages the existing MyAccessID Identity and Access Management Service provided by GÉANT.

EFP AAI will significantly facilate accessing the existing EuroHPC infrastructure, since a single federated identity can be used to access not only EFP itself, but also access integrated EuroHPC systems directly via SSH using short-lived certificates.

This webinar will provide a short introduction to the EFP Workflows based on the LEXIS Platform . It allows users to describe and execute a computing workflow across multiple systems at once, including distributed data management and staging capabilities.

EFP Workflows provides a web interface, an API, as well as a command-line client. Users will be able to build their workflows using one of the pre-defined templates, or define custom ones either in a graphical builder interface or using an YAML-based syntax.

Leveraging the common EFP AAI and Allocations components available on connected HPC centers, so users can easily define and execute complex computing worfklows spanning multiple systems.