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Revision as of 10:38, 5 September 2017
Status: Active (@May 2016)
Chairs: Stig Telfer, Blair Bethwaite and Martial Michel
OpenStack Foundation liaison: David F. Flanders <Flanders@OpenStack.org>
Welcome to the OpenStack Scientific Working Group landing page.
Please cite this working group using the #scientific tag on listservs, github, blogs, twitter and other social infrastructure.
Purpose
Aim: The Scientific Working Group is dedicated to representing and advancing the use-cases and needs of research and high-performance computing atop OpenStack. It's also a great forum for cross-institutional collaboration. If you are (or would like to) run OpenStack to support researchers/scientists/academics and/or HPC/HTC, then please join!
Objectives:
- HPC/HTC Infrastructure
- Research Data Infrastructure
- Application Infrastructure
- Social Infrastructure
- Create opportunities for the scientific community to engage the wider OpenStack community, i.e. industry,
Communication
The default communication of our members is via the following open community mailing lists:
- user-committee@lists.openstack.org for coordination of working group activities. Please prefix email subject lines with the tag "[scientific-wg]".
- openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org for operational discussion of scientific OpenStack deployment issues. Please prefix email subject lines with the tag "[scientific]".
Please use the hashtag "scientific" for tagging any etherpad URLs, code, blogs posts, scientific research and/or other social publishing platforms.
Members
No formal membership is required. Please introduce yourself and/or fellow colleagues to this working group using one of the mailing lists below, or by attending one of the IRC meetings.
This group is open to all members of the scientific OpenStack community and supporting vendors.
History
Significant dates for the working group (in reverse chronological order):
- [Please add latest activity for the #scientific-wg here at the top of this list]
- A proposal for hosting a face-to-face working group meeting was drafted at the following document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10d7XDC1yw3thjxMMC1EXJlfmMAcjkfj2wnhH2MJgh9k/edit
- The group was approved by the OpenStack foundation's User Committee board and wiki page minted on 15th January 2016.
- The original proposal and call for nominations was drafted via this etherpad: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg
- The #scientific-wg originated from a conversation in the hallways of the Tokyo OpenStack summit (Oct 2015), ideas originating from John Taylor, Paul Calleja, Stig Telfer, Jonathan Proulx, David F. Flanders, Lauren Sell & Tom Fifield.
Activity Areas
Every OpenStack development cycle, four activity areas are selected to focus on, and working group members gather data on problems and solutions in areas that affect them.
For the Ocata development cycle, the four activity areas are:
- Monitoring and Telemetry
- GPUs in OpenStack
- Data Management and Big Data
- Scientific OpenStack Federation
Scientific OpenStack
The Scientific WG contributes knowledge and experience to the OpenStack Foundation's Scientific OpenStack site.
The Scientific WG also generated and maintains the content for the OpenStack/HPC guide "The Crossroads of Cloud and HPC: OpenStack for Scientific Research", published by the OpenStack Foundation and made available as an ebook.
Meetings
Face-to-Face
The Scientific Working Group usually meets at the OpenStack Summits, and also at operators mid-cycle meetups (where possible).
- Boston Summit May 2017, Boston, MA, USA: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Scientific-WG-boston
- Newton Design Summit April 2016, Austin, USA: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-austin-summit-agenda
- Operators mid-cycle February 2016, Manchester, UK: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MAN-ops-Scientific-WG
Boston Summit, May 2017
The Scientific WG is planning a range activities for the summit in Boston:
IRC Meetings
For the best global coverage, IRC meetings are held in alternating time zones:
- Every two weeks on even weeks, 2100 UTC on Tuesday in IRC channel #openstack-meeting
- Every two weeks on odd weeks, 1100 UTC on Wednesday in IRC channel #openstack-meeting
Full details (including a calendar file) are available at eavesdrop.openstack.org. If you need help getting started with IRC see http://docs.openstack.org/upstream-training/irc.html.
IRC Meeting September 5th 2017
2017-09-05 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting
- Taking advantage of opportunistic capacity on OpenStack
- Experiences and solutions sought!
- Preemptible instances spec: input sought - https://review.openstack.org/#/c/438640
- Private cloud capacity meter
- https://github.com/johngarbutt/os-capacity
- NeCTAR's capacity monitoring: https://status.rc.nectar.org.au/capacity/
- Updated edition of the Scientific OpenStack book: Progress report
- Deadline for submission of WG input - 22nd September 2017
- Opportunities for new case studies
- Scientific SIG
IRC Meeting August 30th 2017
2017-08-30 1100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting
- Updated edition of the Scientific OpenStack book
- Deadline for submission of WG input - 22nd September 2017
- Volunteers for contributions - https://github.com/openstack/scientific-wg
- Opportunities for new case studies
- Revisions to old studies
IRC Meeting August 22nd 2017
2017-08-22 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting
(partial repeat of past week)
- Updated edition of the Scientific OpenStack book
- Deadline for submission of WG input - 22nd September 2017
- Volunteers for contributions - https://github.com/openstack/scientific-wg
- ORC Update and planning
IRC Meeting August 16th 2017
2017-08-16 1100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting
- Updated edition of the Scientific OpenStack book
- Deadline for submission of WG input - 22nd September 2017
- Volunteers for contributions - https://github.com/openstack/scientific-wg
- Scientific WG at OpenStack Days UK - 26th September 2017
- ORC Update and planning
IRC Meeting August 8th 2017
2017-08-08 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting
- Supercomputing 2017
- BoF application submitted
- Update to the Scientific OpenStack book - https://github.com/openstack/scientific-wg
- Request for a SuperUser guest post - volunteers please.
- User Committee nominations
Earlier Meetings
Minutes and transcripts from all previous meetings can be found here.