Author

Kenneth Hoste holds a Masters (2005) and PhD (2010) in Computer Science from Ghent University (Belgium). 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 where he is mainly responsible for user support & training. He is the lead developer of EasyBuild since 2011, a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on HPC systems, an active contributor in the European Environment for Scientific Software Installations (EESSI) project since 2020, and a partner in the MultiXscale EuroHPC Centre-of-Excellence since 2023. He enjoys (co-)organizing workshops and meetups, like the EasyBuild User Meetings (yearly since 2016) and the HPC, Big Data, and Data Science devroom at FOSDEM (since 2014).