Adam, Thinks for all the information. As always, all the interesting BoF's were always at the same time. I wanted to many of the BoF's you mentionedbut ended up going to "sexier" ones. My own SC13 wrapup to be coming soon.
Prentice On 11/23/2013 03:44 PM, Adam DeConinck wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA512 > > >> 14) Quality of talks/BOFs: I've heard from many sources that the talks >> and BOFs were great. I miss having time to attend them, but will push >> for this next year. The admin BOFs seem to be strongly in demand. >> > There were definitely a few really good admin-oriented BOFs, though I'd > love to see more love for admin topics at the conference in general. A > few of my favorite sessions included: > > * "Getting Scientific Software Installed: Tools & Best Practices" > > BoF web page: > https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild/wiki/SC13-BoF-session > > This BoF covered a few tools for building and managing software on > compute clusters, including Robert McLay's excellent Lmod tool [0] (a > better implementation of environment modules), EasyBuild [1] (automates > software builds and auto-generates Modulefiles), and Hashdist [2] which > also automates software builds and seems more oriented to dev > workstations than clusters. > > The BoF also included a live survey of the Bof participants on > software management practices on clusters (results [3]), which I > thought was very interesting. > > [0] Lmod: https://github.com/TACC/Lmod > [1] EasyBuild: https://github.com/hpcugent/easybuild > [2] Hashdist: https://github.com/hashdist/hashdist > [3] Software management survey: > http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/files/SC13_BoF_show-of-hands-results.pdf > > > * "Trends in Small HPC Center Management" > > This is one of my favorite BoFs every year, as you get to see what the > campus-scale and other "small" HPC sites are doing on a variety of > topics. They send out a survey to past years' participants every year > and show the results at the BoF; this year can be found at [4]. The > discussion was also a lot of fun, with a lot of discussion of job > schedulers and all the pain they cause... > > [4] Small-HPC 2013 survey results deck: http://bit.ly/18xhFoc > > > * "HPC Systems Engineering and Administration" > > This felt like the flagship sysadmin BoF to me. Unfortunately I ended up > distracted during the second half due to some unhappy user emails from back > home, but I remember some very interesting discussion about monitoring > systems, provisioning, and configuration management. I've got a long new > list of software to play with when I get some spare time... ;-) > > There was also some good discussion of the fact that we need more > system administration and engineering coverage at Supercomputing, and > about how hard it is to find talent (!) and connect with others in the > field. There's a new "sc-admin" mailing list [5] which was collecting > signups, and while there isn't anything there yet, it might also be of > interest to folks on this list. > > [5] http://isaac.lsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/sc-admin > > > Those were some of the highlights I remember, but I recognized some > other Beowulfers at these and other BoFs. Anyone else want to chime in, > or tell me about something I missed? :) > > Cheers, > Adam > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (Darwin) > > iQEcBAEBCgAGBQJSkRPBAAoJEGqxms5cZfz0OUAIALb9+UPgg1utceuKzTx5td6O > qkdw6infSvTjJcgvVrRHp2tigFeiytLr4syUu/jaqOPdeyL2jWsOIEUOGJPVf8s+ > sTXqU3AXjY6Cldn64pTOxFkbVg2yqC+xK+uxPfGWi7T5Ow6c2OTM3yJ1kaj0UM3m > Buo4Rv9Gkf20KPzrsxMryadbX4un6p2yd3a4BIKCmA/vTVfIZhEk4M3BxPiUiEb5 > gEyLUsczhLjFM+n6Cce2b9DqoMqm63hKX9MppnK1+X/uKfVLXY7ns8aqo2ys3Pnl > umscCXMj15oDjPmXo+y0otAqAoOQ/lYxgmk120LWWI3jmYu7T2t+pkye+K/mWGU= > =xcX0 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing > To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit > http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, [email protected] sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
