Kenneth Hoste
Kenneth Hoste, a.k.a. 'boegel', is a computer scientist and FOSS enthusiast from Belgium. He holds a Masters (2005) and PhD (2010) in Computer Science from Ghent University. His dissertation topic was "Analysis, Estimation and Optimization of Computer System Performance Using Machine Learning".
Since October 2010, he is a member of the HPC team at Ghent University (Belgium) where he is mainly responsible for user support & training. As a part of his job, he is also the lead developer and release manager of EasyBuild (https://easybuild.io), a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems.
He is also actively involved in EESSI (https://www.eessi.io), the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations, and in MultiXscale (https://www.multixscale.eu), a EuroHPC JU Centre of Excellence in multiscale modelling.
In his free time, he is a family guy and a fan of loud music, frequently attending gigs and festivals.
He enjoys helping people & sharing his expertise, and likes joking around.
He has a weak spot for stickers and beer.
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The European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI, pronounced as "easy") is a collaboration between different HPC sites and industry partners, with the common goal of setting up a shared repository of (optimized) scientific software installations that can be used on a variety of Linux systems, regardless of which (version of) Linux distribution or processor architecture is used.