All, Registration is open for the 2018 Partly Cloudy conference: http://partly-cloudy.fredhutch.org
While this conference is not Slurm specific, many smaller Slurm shops have already confirmed their attendance to the "Partly Cloudy" conference in Seattle so this shameless plug feels relevant to some of you. Shops that provide compute infrastructures (HPC, big Data, Containers) continue to be challenged by questions such as "what to cloud", "if to cloud", "when to cloud". Some of us want to use the cloud at certain times (bursting) and others bring up certain services in the cloud and combine them with on-prem resources in a cost efficient way and ...surprise ... things do not always work as advertised. Over the last year we at Fred Hutch have made significant some significant investments in getting integrated Slurm clusters running in AWS and Google cloud. AIRI conference: https://www.slideshare.net/dirkpetersen/scientific-computing-fred-hutch Google Next: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fw_CR2WgPRY&t=5s While I am still working with all 3 cloud providers in Seattle on recruiting speakers with a focus on hybrid-cloud I am forwarding the announcement my friend Stuart Kendrick (who did much of the real work) already sent to his large network, apologies for any duplicates and perhaps I see you in Seattle this fall. Thanks much Dirk ############################################## Hi folks, Registration is open for the 2018 Partly Cloudy conference: http://partly-cloudy.fredhutch.org This conference is aimed at IT infrastructure folks who want to talk with peers about how to flow between on-prem systems and cloud systems, in support of scientific research. Dirk Petersen (Fred Hutch) is driving this, with support from myself (Allen Institute / coordination), Bob Robbins (consultant), and Donna Obuchowski (Fred Hutch / logistics). Format 10/24 Dinner Informal discussion, get to know each other 10/25 Morning The speakers talk about their experiences, Q&A 10/25 Afternoon Split into working groups to talk informally about current challenges 10/25 End-of-the-Day Bring everyone together to summarize lessons-learned Mostly, we expect a regional audience, and we emphasize attending in-person. That being said, this is a prototype run for what we imagine will be a nationally-relevant conference, which we intend to host in 2019. To that end, we will offer, experimentally, virtual attendance - streamed plus the ability to 'raise your hand and ask a question'. Dirk Petersen Scientific Computing Director Fred Hutch 1100 Fairview Ave. N. Mail Stop M4-A882 Seattle, WA 98109 Phone: 206.667.5926 Skype: internetchen [cid:8C6A9079-96CB-447C-94D9-DD59438042C1]
