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Kenneth Hoste

👥 3 conferences
🎤 6 talks
📅 Years active: 2013 to 2018

Biography

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, a software build and installation framework for (scientific) software on High Performance Computing (HPC) systems.

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.

— biography from FOSDEM 2018
https://archive.fosdem.org/2018/schedule/speaker/kenneth_hoste/

Conferences

3 known conferences

👥 FOSDEM 2018 📅 03 Feb 2018

  ðŸŽ¤ Installing software for scientists on a multi-user HPC system
   04 Feb 2018 show details
  ðŸŽ¤ How To Make Package Managers Cry
   03 Feb 2018 show details
  ðŸŽ¤ Simplifying the contribution process for both contributors & maintainers
   03 Feb 2018 show details

👥 FOSDEM 2014 📅 01 Feb 2014

  ðŸŽ¤ HPC devroom welcome, introduction to HPC-UGent and VSC
   01 Feb 2014 show details

👥 FOSDEM 2013 📅 02 Feb 2013

  ðŸŽ¤ EasyBuild: building software with ease
   03 Feb 2013 show details
  ðŸŽ¤ EasyBuild
   02 Feb 2013 show details