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HPC using OpenStack

HPC / GPU / AI

High-Performance Computing (HPC) proposes to design a Super Computer around the use of parallel processing to run advanced application programs efficiently, reliably and quickly.

OpenStack is a set of software tools for building and managing cloud computing platforms for public and private clouds.

If you are looking for common deployment models for HPC & OpenStack, come and interact with our community and learn if other people are doing similar work and start a collaboration.

This session will be an opportunity for architects and operators pairing HPC with OpenStack to get together and discuss:

best practices and common deployment models
pain points
war stories
wish lists

Specific discussion points would likely include:

SLURM integration
Accelerators integration

Etherpad for pre-panel questions is available at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/yvr18-hpc-using-openstack

What can I expect to learn?

Give Operators a chance to discuss OpenStack on HPC

Wednesday, May 23, 2:40pm-3:20pm (9:40pm - 10:20pm UTC)

Vancouver Convention Centre West - Level One - Room 121-122

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Difficulty Level: Intermediate

Tags: Arch / Ops Technical Case Study

Martial Michel

Chief Scientific Officer

Martial has worked in the distributed computing field for 20 years, starting with designing data serialization algorithms for MPI (his Ph.D. subject), making multimedia network streams to be used on commercial off the shelf hardware time-synchronized, implementing a job scheduling software, architecting data-driven research evaluation platforms, and lead the team the NIST team using... FULL PROFILE

Robert Budden

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center (ADNet Systems), Principle Systems Engineer

Robert is a systems developer and cluster administrator who has spent the past 10 years at the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center working on data movement technologies, distributed filesystems, authentication and authorization, cluster scheduling, and cloud computing in HPC environments. Robert graduated from Penn State University in 2007 with a B.S. in Computer Science. FULL PROFILE

John Lowe

Lead Systems Progammer

John (Mike) holds a BS computer engineering degree from Purdue University. He has worked in high performance computing and virtualization at Indiana University for 12 years. FULL PROFILE

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

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

Jim Golden

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Jim Golden is a IT Specialist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and has been a cloud operator since 2013. Jim operates heterogenious GPU enabled clouds which run some of NIST’s scientific evaluations, which include deep neural network training in speech recognition and detection tasks in multi-camera streaming video. FULL PROFILE

Jonathan Mills

Systems Administrator

Jonathan is a unix systems administrator for the NASA Center for Climate Simulation at Goddard Space Flight Center. He joined NASA in 2014 to help maintain Goddard's 3.5 petaflop supercomputer, called 'Discover'. He's now working to implement a large-scale OpenStack cluster for data analytics and other tasks performed by the climate science community. Jonathan has worked in HPC... FULL PROFILE