Systems-Facing Track

The Systems-Facing track of the People Network will focus on aspects relevant to the execution of research computing and data systems.

Topics include:

• Architecture (hardware solutions, cloud integration, VMs, container integration, …)
• Storage systems (file systems, SAN, NAS, NVMe, Burstbuffer, …)
• Networking (data transfer solutions, Infiniband, campus-wide, …)
• Cluster management and configuration (scheduling, accounting and reporting, …)
• Accelerators (GPU, FPGA, …)
• Security (auditing, compliance, policies, procedures, …)
• User environment (Modules, CUDA, …)

We connect via monthly calls and an email list.

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Monthly Calls

Monthly calls are on the third Tuesday of the month, 1pm ET.  Connection information and links to any materials are distributed via email.

Upcoming Calls

Topic: OURRstore: Big Data on a Small Budget, discussion facilitated by Henry Neeman, Patrick Calhoun

July 16, 2020, 1p ET/12p CT/ 11a MT/ 10a PT

Previous Call Topics

• June 2020 – An intro to metrics collection with Prometheus and visualization with Grafana at the Colorado School of Mines
• May 2020 – Multi-Track: Student Workers
• April 2020 – Direct to the chip warm water cooling HPC system at OSC
• March 2020 – Visualize And Analyze Your Network Activities Using OSU INAM
• February 2020 – UC San Diego Health’s approach to meeting HIPAA compliance in AWS
• January 2020 – HIPAA-aligned data and Public Cloud Platforms
• December 2019 – Cornell’s Data Finder Tool
• October 2019 – HTCondor’s Philosophy of High-Throughput Computing
• September 2019 – Providing a Unified Software Environment for Canada’s National Advanced Computing Centers
• August 2019 – Storage and Data Management for a Mid-Scale Research Data Set
• July 2019 – Racktables for graphical HPC cluster management
• June 2019 – Open Discussion
• May, 2019 – Globus Installation and Configuration
• April, 2019 — Charliecloud ~ Unprivileged Containers for User-Defined Software Stacks
• March, 2019 – Ceph as a campus storage solution (block and objects)

CaRCC Systems-Facing YouTube playlist of past calls

Google Drive folder (includes notes and audio-only recordings)

Track Coordinators

Brian Haymore, Sr IT Architect – HPC, Center for High Performance Computing, University of Utah

Troy Baer, Senior HPC Systems Engineer, Ohio Supercomputer Center