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With regards to the scientific-wg luncheon today, if everyone could please
meet in the "Scientific Lounge" which is being hosted by UTSA.
The 'Scientific Lounge' is located on the ground floor between registration
and the lunch area.
@Gonzalo if I could ask you to display a sign or the like on your LCD
screen in the lounge near your sofas to help organise?

--> We would encourage everyone to think of key questions to ask the
Directors at lunch.

As to, Yesterday's Scientific-WG (work task prioritisation) session was
very successful thanks to the co-chairs: Blaire and Stig, please see this
etherpad for a list of key topics which will be decided and assigned to WG
teams at today's working group session 11:15am (just before lunch).

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

By the time we all head to the amazing Rainy Street Stack City party
tonight, I hope the ship's course will be set for Barcelona and achieving a
key set of work for the scientific cloud community!

Happy conferencing ya'll ;-)

Kind Regards,

Flanders

On Mon, Apr 25, 2016 at 3:35 AM, David F Flanders <dff.openstack at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear Fellow Working Groups and User-Committee,
>
> I'd like to quickly draw your attention to this email announcement which a
> member of the scientific-wg wrote for wide spread awareness about the
> upcoming launch.  A handy summary of all the scientific-wg activities below
> as well.
>
> Thank you Khalil!
>
>
> OpenStack Scientific Working GroupOpenStack Summit, Austin, TX.April 25th
> -27th, 2016Background
>
> Cloud Computing represents one of the most significant shifts in
> information technology many of us are likely to see in our lifetimes. The
> massive scale and global availability of cloud-based services have spawned
> an entirely new generation of services that for practical purposes had
> been well out of reach for individual institutions and researchers. In
> effect, this necessary sharing of services has the consequence of bringing
> researchers previously working in isolated islands of activity into close
> proximity to one another and opening the doors to new levels of interaction
> and collaboration.
>
> While otherwise comfortable with the notion of “shared” or “utility”
> infrastructure – such is the attraction of working at a large R1 or
> research institute – for good scientific reasons, the research community is
> wary of any limiting consequences of standards when using shared technology
> resources and where the precise and complete control over the technology
> architecture is critical to the science itself. Such concerns aside, there
> is much promise in having computing services available as a utility for
> many areas of scientific research where compute standards and form are not
> immediately impactful on research outcomes – but availability and ease of
> use are.
>
> While offering great potential for game-changing innovation, current cloud
> computing platforms have performance and capability limitations that reduce
> their effectiveness as alternatives to highly configurable on premise
> resources. As the scientific community adopts cloud infrastructure,
> application mobility, portability, security, and ubiquitous availability
> become increasingly important to support the democratization of research
> capability and access to research computing resources.
>
> One important consequence of moving to the effective commoditization of
> research cloud computing is that increasing portions of on premise research
> computing resources can be allocated towards more innovative research
> computing architectures. As the migration to cloud services is also
> accelerating the translation of new innovation into large-scale
> availability, any effort to enhance the pathway for translation would be
> highly beneficial.
>
> As such, it is simple prudence that suggests that both on premise and
> provider resources must be cultivated and nurtured. Rather than selecting
> one or the other it seems beneficial for these systems to converge over
> time, resulting in a hybrid architecture that has the key benefits of both
> approaches.
>
>
> Context
>
> In response to the demands of the research community, the OpenStack
> Foundation has started up a Scientific Working Group that will have its
> inaugural meeting at the OpenStack Summit in Austin later this month. The
> program also includes several panels sessions and networking opportunities
> for academics, researchers, scientists and research computing professionals
> to discuss a wide range of topics.
>
>
> Goals
>
> The driver for this new initiative is to bring together key stakeholders
> and computation center decision makers from the research community and
> industry supporting cloud-based cyber-infrastructure to surface
> unmet needs, identify current and near-term solutions that would provide
> value-added services and with an eye towards balancing utility vs. creative
> – and hence, non-standard – uses, and to explore the scope of areas where
> community based standards are called for.
>
> Through an open and thoughtful exchange, we intend to begin developing a
> shared understanding and vision of how open computing solutions can best
> support existing and emerging uses in a range of research disciplines. It
> is intended that this initial workshop serve as a planning session and
> kick-off for a series of workshops that would include coverage of topics
> such as:
>
>
> *Further planning and notes ongoing via this etherpad: *
>
>
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-austin-summit-agenda
>
>
> Planned sessions and events
>
> *Operations Track: Scientific Working Group Meetup*
>
> Monday, April 25, 2:00pm-3:30pm
>
>
>
> *Scientific Working Group Inaugural Meeting*
>
> Tuesday, April 26, 11:15am-11:55am
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7755
>
> Draft agenda for the session under development here:
>
> https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/scientific-wg-austin-summit-agenda
>
>
>
> *Luncheon Scientific Cloud Directors Panel*
>
> Tuesday, April 26, Noon to 2pm
>
> (TABLES WILL BE RESERVED VIA SIGNAGE)
>
>
>
> *Scientific Community Cloud Directors*:
>
> Scientific Community Clouds: five directors of community clouds
> responsible for a quarter million cores worldwide
>
> Tuesday, April 26, 3:40pm-4:20pm
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/9076
>
>
>
> *Tuesday Evening - StackCity Community Festival*
>
> *HPC Track:*
>
> *Deploying OpenStack for the National Science Foundation's newest
> supercomputers*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 9:00am-9:40am
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7221?goback=1
>
> *High-Performance OpenStack for Science and Data Analytics in a Hybrid
> Cloud Environment*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 9:50am-10:30am
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/8480?goback=1
>
> *Glance and SLURM: User-Defined Image Management on HPC Clusters*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 11:00am-11:40am
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7822?goback=1
>
> *Chasing the Rainbow – National Computational Infrastructure’s Pursuit of
> High-Performance OpenStack Cloud*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 11:00am-11:40am
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/8527?goback=1
>
> *Bending Ironic for Big Iron*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 11:50am-12:30pm
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/8385?goback=1
>
> *Synch&Share into Swift -- A User-Friendly Gateway into Swift Storage
> Using an Owncloud Frontend*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 1:50pm-2:30pm
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7260?goback=1
>
> *Cloud Infrastructure to Help Researchers Build 21st Century Microscopes*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 2:40pm-3:20pm
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7498?goback=1
>
> *Chameleon: An experimental Testbed for Computer Science as Application of
> Cloud Computing*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 3:30pm-4:10pm
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/9035?goback=1
>
> *Building Efficient HPC Clouds with MVAPICH2 and OpenStack over SR-IOV
> enabled InfiniBand Clusters* Wednesday, April 27, 3:30pm-4:10pm
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/7308?goback=1
>
> *OpenStack for High-Performance Bioinformatics*
>
> Wednesday, April 27, 4:30pm-5:10pm
>
>
> https://www.openstack.org/summit/austin-2016/summit-schedule/events/8518?goback=1
>
>
> --
> =================
> Twitter: @DFFlanders <https://twitter.com/dfflanders>
> Skype: david.flanders
> Based in Melbourne, Australia
>
>
>


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Twitter: @DFFlanders <https://twitter.com/dfflanders>
Skype: david.flanders
Based in Melbourne, Australia
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