Scientific SIG
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.
Contents
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 list:
*--> user-committee@lists.openstack.org
Please append email subject lines with "[scientific-wg]".
Please use the hashtag "scientific-wg" for tagging any etherpad URLs, code, blogs posts, scientific research and/or other social publishing platforms.
Meetings
Face-to-face meetings occur bi-annually at the OpenStack summit, please see the conference programme for dates/times. IRC meetings are being arranged forthwith and details will be published here.
- [DRAFT] agenda for generating actions for the #scientific-wg via discussion at the Austin OpenStack Summit: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-austin-summit-agenda
- Scope of Scientific Working Group generated post Tokyo summit: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg
Members
Please nominate yourself and/or fellow colleagues to this working group via the following etherpad:
https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg
Nominations will be reviewed by the chairs of the working groups during OpenStack summits.
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.