Austin
April 25-29, 2016

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Scientific Working Group Inaugural Meeting
Working Groups

The inaugural meeting of the Scientific Working Group will be a catalyst [1] for bringing Universities, Labs, Industrial R&D, Academics, Researchers and Scientists together to discuss the uses of OpenStack in our institutions and on our campuses.

Outputs from this working group will be updated on the following OpenStack website:

https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/scientific-wg

Keywords: #scientific-wg #academia #research #laboratories #R&D #science #compatibility

[1] = "catalyst" - or rather, to be more specific: "antihemorrhagic"

https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-austin-summit-agenda


What can I expect to learn?

The agenda for the first #scientific-wg will include discussion on the following broad topics:

  • HPC/HTC infrastructure, enabling researchers to have "on tap" compute resources for research experiments in parallel, simulation and high throughput workloads.
  • Application infrastructure, ease of working collaboratively with fellow researchers, scientists and lab colleagues, such as conducting cloud native data analysis experiments (via RStudio, iPython, MATLAB, GIPSY, etc.)
  • Social infrastructure, communities emerging on campuses which are promoting use of cloud computing for collaborative research and science, such as data science,
  • Data infrastructure, large data science experiments and their usability via cloud applications such as, for example, data from radio astronomy, genomic sequencers, medical imaging-omics,  informatics, etc.
  • Last but not least, promoting the amazing things which researchers, scientists and developers are doing with OpenStack.
Tuesday, April 26, 11:15am-11:55am (4:15pm - 4:55pm UTC)
Hilton Austin - Level 6 - Salon J
Difficulty Level: Intermediate
Tags: Ops Community BoF
Stig Telfer
StackHPC Ltd
Stig has a background in R&D working for various prominent technology companies, particularly in HPC and software-defined networking.  Stig is now CTO for StackHPC, a consultancy specialising in the convergence of cloud, HPC and big data.  Stig is also co-chair of the OpenStack Scientific Special Interest Group, a globally-distributed grouping of research institutions using OpenStack for... FULL PROFILE
John Taylor
High Performance Computing Service, Cambridge Univ
John works with Cambridge University on flagship scientific compute programmes such as the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) FULL PROFILE
Dr. Paul Calleja
Head of Research Computing Services, Cambridge Uni
Dr Paul Calleja, Director HPC Cambridge Paul has over 20 years experience in HPC starting as an HPC user developing and using HPC molecular modelling codes, then as an HPC vendor designing and implementing over 200 commercial HPC systems. Paul is now centre director for one of the largest University HPC centres in the UK. He was founder and inaugural chair of the UK HPC-SIG and currently drives... FULL PROFILE
Jonathan Proulx
Sr Technical Architect - MIT Computer Science and
Jonathan Proulx is the Sr Technical Architect at MIT/CSAIL(http://www.csail.mit.edu) making sure the world class researchersthere have a world class infrastructure to support them.  Fromplanning through proof of concept to production deployment and legacymaintenance Jonathan has seen several generations of infrastructurethrough the lab. A co-author of the OpenStack Operations guide,... FULL PROFILE
David Flanders
The University of Melbourne
OpenStack Foundation, Application Communities Interview: http://superuser.openstack.org/articles/meet-openstack-s-community-wrangler-david-flanders Twitter/IRC: @DFFlanders Contact details: dfflanders.wordpress.com/about FULL PROFILE
Tim Bell
CERN
Tim is responsible for the group at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, which manages the compute infrastructure for 13,000 physicists around the world to support fundamental research. He previously worked as a Unix kernel developer at IBM along with managing large scale Unix production deployments and services for Deutsche Bank in Europe. His team is running the CERN OpenStack... FULL PROFILE
Blair Bethwaite
New Zealand eScience Infrastructure
Blair has worked in distributed computing for over a decade; both in research and for research; for institutional and national projects; from applications, through grid & cloud middleware, to full HPC & cloud systems design, implementation, and operations.   Originally from Christchurch, Blair recently returned to NZ to take up the reigns of Solutions Manager of the New Zealand... FULL PROFILE