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 ## The EasyBuild CI
 
+**Important Note:** *With the end of the DEEP-SEA project the `deepsea` project account has expired. As the EasyBuild CI setup requires both file system storage as well as compute time bound to this project account is no longer available. If you want your EasyBuild CI Pipeline to continue to work you will have to update your Pipeline configuration. See the manual below for more information.*
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 The internal EasyBuild repository runs a continuous integration pipeline which can re-build and deploy dedicated, bleeding-edge version of software in the DEEP-SEA project, on-demand. You can find more information in the [dedicated EasyBuild CI documentation](https://gitlab.jsc.fz-juelich.de/hedgedoc/8xmDX7KCQGK77GQq9JPkgQ?view).