Project Charter

1. Mission

EasyBuild is a tool to facilitate the installation of scientific software, along with the dependencies it requires.

The project focuses on collaboration, automation, and software performance.

2. Scope

EasyBuild automates the build and installation process of scientific software.

Installing software with EasyBuild is usually done from source code, so that the installed software can be optimized for the CPU (and GPU) architecture of the system on which it will be used.

EasyBuild's primary focus is on High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure (a.k.a. supercomputers). As such, it is intended to be used on systems running Linux as operating system.

3. Membership

There is currently no registered membership. Any individual or institution may participate by using EasyBuild, contributing to EasyBuild, etc.

4. Review and Amendment

Changes to the charter require approval by the Steering Committee. See the relevant section of the Governance.