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Scientific SIG

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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: 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:


Please use the hashtag "scientific-wg" 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.

Meetings

Face-to-Face

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

Barcelona Summit, October 2016

The Scientific WG has helped to plan a range activities for the summit in Barcelona:

  1. The HPC / Research speaker track has seven talks scheduled for Wednesday 26th and Thursday 27th
  2. A BoF for Scientific OpenStack. (Wednesday, October 26, 2:15pm-2:55pm, Hilton Diagonal Mar - P0 - Ballroom B)
    1. Lightning talks schedule TBC
  3. A WG committee meeting for progress review and planning. (Wednesday, October 26, 11:25am-12:05pm, AC Hotel - P14 - Pedralbes)
    1. Agenda items for the meeting, please contribute.
  4. An evening social for members, supporters and friends of the Scientific WG.


Some WG members have compiled a short list of top picks from the summit schedule

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, 0900 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 November 1st 2016

2016-11-01 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting

  1. Selection of New Activity Areas for Ocata Cycle
    1. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-barcelona-agenda
  2. Brainstorm of 'Forum' session proposals for Boston
  3. WG Picks from the Summit
    1. Developer sessions
    2. Video Archive
  4. Plans for Supercomputing 2016
    1. Evening social?
    2. Superuser blog post?

IRC Meeting October 12th 2016

2016-10-12 0900 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting

  1. Details on Research Councils UK Cloud Workshop, 29th November in London
  2. Virtualisation tuning - follow up from Blair
  3. Barcelona
    1. WG events confirmed on the schedule
    2. CFP - lightning talks at the Scientific OpenStack BoF
    3. Subsidy confirmation for social (Thursday night)
  4. More preparation for Supercomputing 2016
    1. Picks from the schedule
    2. Social gathering at SC 2016
  5. Other business

Minutes from the meeting

IRC Meeting October 4th 2016

2016-10-04 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting

  1. Virtualisation tuning study from Blair
  2. WG activity space requested at the Barcelona summit.
    1. Bigger space and new timing proposed
    2. Scientific OpenStack BoF
    3. Working group meeting agenda items
    4. Subsidy for social (Thursday night)
  3. More preparation for Supercomputing 2016
    1. Picks from the schedule
  4. Other business

Minutes from the meeting

Earlier Meetings

Minutes and transcripts from all previous meetings can be found here.