Scientific SIG

Status: Active
Organiser: Stig Telfer
OpenStack Foundation liaison: David F. Flanders <Flanders@OpenStack.org>

Welcome to the OpenStack Scientific Working Group home 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 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.

• [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

To propose a virtual meeting (i.e. IRC/chat-room meeting, conference call or other) please email the mailing list.

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.