Difference between revisions of "Scientific SIG"

Revision as of 15:33, 16 May 2016

Status: Active (@May 2016)
Chairs: Stig Telfer and Blair Bethwaite
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-wg tag on listservs, github, blogs, twitter and other social infrastructure.

Purpose

Aim: Explore opportunities for cross-institutional collaboration and compatibility around use of OpenStack for use by researchers, scientists, academics and developers. {To be further specified at the Austin OpenStack Summit}

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-wg" for tagging any etherpad URLs, code, blogs posts, scientific research and/or other social publishing platforms.

Members

Please nominate yourself and/or fellow colleagues to this working group via the following etherpad:

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg

This group is open to all members of the scientific OpenStack community and supporting vendors.

Meetings

Face-to-Face

The Scientific Working Group usually meets at the OpenStack Design summits, and also at operators mid-cycle meetups (where possible).

• Operators mid-cycle February 2016, Manchester, UK: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/MAN-ops-Scientific-WG
• Newton Design Summit April 2016, Austin, USA: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-austin-summit-agenda

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, 0700 UTC on Wednesday in IRC channel #openstack-meeting

Full details (including a calendar file) are available at eavesdrop.openstack.org

IRC Meeting May 17th 2016

2016-05-17 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting

1. Newton cycle activity planning and brainstorming, including:
   1. User stories
   2. Bare metal
   3. Parallel filesystems
   4. Accounting and scheduling
2. Other development activities of interest

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.