Bio
I'm Kenneth Hoste, a.k.a. 'boegel', a computer scientist and FOSS enthusiast from Belgium. I have a Masters (2005) and PhD (2010) in Computer Science from Ghent University. My dissertation topic was "Analysis, Estimation and Optimization of Computer System Performance Using Machine Learning".
Since October 2010, I'm a member of the HPC team at Ghent University (Belgium) where I am mainly responsible for user support & training. As a part of my job, I am also the lead developer and release manager of EasyBuild, a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems.
In my free time, I am a family guy and a fan of loud music, frequently attending gigs and festivals.
I enjoy helping people & sharing his expertise, and like joking around. I have a weak spot for stickers and beer.
Things I don't like include CMake, Bazel, TensorFlow, C++, ...
- Twitter:
@kehoste
- email:
kenneth.hoste@ugent.be
Projects
Current
- EasyBuild: A software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on HPC systems
- lead developer & release manager (BDFL, if you will)
- archspec: A library for detecting, labeling, and reasoning about microarchitectures
- EESSI: European Environment for Scientific Software Installations
- PyGHee (pronounced as "piggy") is the GitHub Event Executor, a Python library to facilitate creating a GitHub App implemented in Python to process events from GitHub
Old
Projects I worked on during my PhD research:
- COLE: Compiler Optimization Level Exploration
- MICA:
Talks
(some day I'll make this a complete list of talks I've given...)
2020
European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) (HPCKP'20)
Easybuild State of the union (5th EasyBuild User Meeting)
2019
Easybuild State of the union (4th EasyBuild User Meeting)
2018
In 2018, I gave 3 talks in a single weekend at FOSDEM'18 in Brussels, next to co-organizing a FOSDEM devroom and 3-day EasyBuild meetup the week beforre.
I highly recommend this experience to anyone (just kidding, please don't do this, it was nuts).
How To Make Package Managers Cry (FOSDEM'18)
This is probably the talk I'm most proud of so far (and I may never top it).
Born out of years of frustration to get scientific software installed...
Simplifying the contribution process for both contributors & maintainers (FOSDEM'18)
A case study of the GitHub integration in EasyBuild
Installing software for scientists on a multi-user HPC system (FOSDEM'18)
A comparison between conda, EasyBuild, Guix, Nix & Spack
EasyBuild: past, present and future (3rd EasyBuild User Meeting)
2017
EasyBuild: past, present and future (2nd EasyBuild User Meeting)
2016
EasyBuild: past, present and future (1st EasyBuild User Meeting)
- date: Jan 27th 2016
- venue: 1st EasyBuild User Meeting - Ghent University (Belgium)
- slides
Why I like Lmod, and you should too (1st EasyBuild User Meeting)
Events
Here are some of the events I organized together with others:
2020
2019
2018
2017
2016
2014