Re: [Openstack-operators] new SIGs to cover use cases

2018-11-13 Thread Stig Telfer
You are right to make the connection - this is a subject that regularly comes up in the discussions of the Scientific SIG, though it’s just one of many use cases for hybrid cloud. If a new SIG was created around hybrid cloud, it would be useful to have it closely connected with the Scientific

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting today: Keycloak and federated authentication, SIG in Berlin

2018-09-26 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have an IRC meeting today at 1100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. This week we are gathering requirements and sharing experiences on using Keycloak for simplifying federated authentication. We also have Berlin forum proposals to discuss. The full agenda

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting: Docker and HPC

2018-04-25 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello All - We have an IRC meeting at 1100 UTC today in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. Today we have Christian Kniep from Docker joining us to talk about how Docker can be adapted to suit the requirements of HPC workloads. I saw him present on this recently and it should

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC Meeting, Wednesday 1100UTC: Cyborg and Forum

2018-03-27 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific SIG meeting on Wednesday at 1100 UTC. This week’s agenda is at: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG#IRC_Meeting_March_28th_2018 We’ll be hearing from Zhipeng Huang about the

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting - Managing dedicated capacity, PTG topics and beyond

2018-02-20 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific SIG IRC meeting today in channel #openstack-meeting at 2100 UTC. Everyone is welcome. This week we are gathering details on best practice for managing dedicated capacity in scientific OpenStack private clouds, eg for resources funded by specific projects or

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Meeting Wednesday: Ironic for infrastructure management, Kubernetes-as-a-Service

2018-02-13 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific SIG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 1100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. As well as some up-coming conferences, we also have a discussion on recent CERN & SKA projects using Ironic for bare metal infrastructure management, and an update from

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting: preemptible instances and upcoming events

2018-01-30 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific SIG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 1100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. This week’s agenda includes an update on recent work towards preemptible “spot” instances. We also have a few events on the calendar to discuss and plan for. Full

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting Wednesday 1100UTC: Bare metal Magnum

2018-01-16 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have an IRC meeting on Wednesday at 1100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. Agenda is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG#IRC_Meeting_January_17th_2018 This week

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting today: SGX security and Ironic, RCUK cloud workshop

2018-01-09 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello All - We have an IRC meeting in channel #openstack-meeting at 2100 UTC today (just over an hour’s time). All are welcome. Today’s agenda is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_SIG#IRC_Meeting_January_9th_2018

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC meeting today CANCELLED - chair HA failure

2017-12-06 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - Unfortunately we have to cancel today's Scientific SIG meeting due to non-availability of chairs for the meeting. There were a couple of upcoming scientific OpenStack-related events to publicise: - Computing Insight UK 2017, 12-13 December in Manchester, UK has a cloud theme to the

Re: [Openstack-operators] CaaS with magnum

2017-11-22 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi Sergio - On a much smaller scale we use Magnum with Ironic bare metal. Like the CERN team we are using the Pike release. Mostly we use Docker Swarm mode on Fedora 25. Our team made a few fixes to get this working on our deployment (particularly relating to Ironic support and updating to

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][kolla] Pike upgrade report

2017-09-21 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - In this week’s Scientific WG/SIG meeting there was some interest in our experiences with upgrading to Pike earlier this week. I’ve gathered together our notes to make a blog post on how we got on: https://www.stackhpc.com/kolla-kayobe-pike.html

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC Meeting today at 2100 UTC: Opportunistic utilisation

2017-09-19 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello All - We have an IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. Today we will be joined by Rajul Kumar of Northeastern University in Boston, who will be talking about their recent research into methods for opportunistic usage of cloud resources for

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Reminder: IRC Meeting today 1100UTC #openstack-meeting

2017-09-13 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have an IRC meeting today at 1100 UTC (about 2 hours time) in #openstack-meeting. Today we are rolling over the topics from last week’s discussion in the other time zone. Principally this was seeking input on how people measure available resources, and provide opportunistic

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] WG IRC meeting: 2100 UTC - opportunistic capacity etc.

2017-09-05 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all -We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting.  Everyone is welcome.The agenda is here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_working_group#IRC_Meeting_September_5th_2017Today we’d like to discuss people’s solutions for making use of

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Scientific WG IRC meeting Wednesday 1100 UTC

2017-08-15 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have an IRC meeting coming up on Wednesday at 1100 UTC on #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. This week we’ve got matters to discuss around an updated edition of the Scientific OpenStack book, WG activities for the OpenStack day coming up in London, plus discussion/update

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC

2017-08-08 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have an IRC meeting coming up in a few hours on #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. This week we’ve got matters to discuss around Supercomputing 2017, an updated edition of the Scientific OpenStack book, and the up-and-coming User Committee elections. The full agenda is

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting today 1100 UTC

2017-08-02 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have an IRC meeting today at 1100 UTC in #openstack-meeting (about 2 hours time). Everyone is welcome. This week we have Pierre Riteau from the Chameleon Cloud presenting their work on cloud workload tracing. Plus a round-up of WG activities for Supercomputing 2017 and

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Scientific WG IRC meeting: today 2100 UTC

2017-07-25 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting shortly at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. The meeting details are available here: http://eavesdrop.openstack.org/#Scientific_Working_Group The agenda is available here:

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Scientific WG IRC Meeting today: Lustre on OpenStack

2017-07-19 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 1100 UTC (ie, about 40 minutes time) in channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here: https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_working_group#IRC_Meeting_July_19th_2017

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Scientific WG IRC Meeting: Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-07-11 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have an IRC meeting coming up later in channel #openstack-meeting. We’d like to discuss plans for activities at Supercomputing 2017, and follow up on some investigations for scientific application catalogues. Agenda details for today:

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] NEW TIME: Scientific WG IRC Meeting Wednesday 1100 UTC

2017-07-04 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific WG meeting on Wednesday at 1100 UTC in #openstack-meeting. This is our NEW TIME - two hours later than usual. This week we’d like to discuss plans for SuperComputing as the BoF submission deadline is approaching. Also, a catch up on scientific application

Re: [Openstack-operators] [neutron] ML2/OVS dropping packets?

2017-06-21 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi Jon - From what I understand, while you might have gone to the trouble of configuring a lossless data centre ethernet, that guarantee of packet loss ends at the hypervisor. OVS (and other virtual switches) will drop packets rather than exert back pressure. I saw a useful paper from IBM

Re: [Openstack-operators] [User-committee] [scientific] 0900 UTC meeting time change?

2017-06-21 Thread Stig Telfer
Doing future meetings at 1100UTC would also be fine by me. I’ll put it on the agenda for today’s meeting (in ~10 minutes) Stig > On 21 Jun 2017, at 09:13, Blair Bethwaite wrote: > > Thanks Pierre. That's also my preference. > > Just to be clear, today's 0900 UTC

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC Meeting: Science app catalogues, security of research computing on OpenStack - Wednesday 0900 UTC

2017-06-20 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings! We have an IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. This week we’d like to hear people’s thoughts and experiences on providing scientific application catalogues to users - in particular with a view to gathering best practice for a new chapter for the

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Starting soon: IRC Meeting: RDMA-enabled Hadoop and Spark, Open Research Cloud - Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-06-13 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have an IRC meeting coming up on Tuesday at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting - about 90 minutes time. This week we have Dr Xiaoyi Lu and Prof DK Panda from Ohio State University to talk about HiBD, their project for creating RDMA-enabled optimisations of Hadoop, Spark

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC Meeting: RDMA-enabled Hadoop and Spark, Open Research Cloud - Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-06-12 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have an IRC meeting coming up on Tuesday at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. This week we have Dr Xiaoyi Lu and Prof DK Panda from Ohio State University to talk about HiBD, their project for creating RDMA-enabled optimisations of Hadoop, Spark and Memcached. For

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting - Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-05-30 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a meeting on Tuesday at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. We’d like to round up some summit video picks, cover the discussion on gathering OpenStack-related research papers, and discuss goals for the new cycle. Today’s full agenda is here:

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting - Wednesday 0900 UTC

2017-05-23 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello - We have a meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. We’d like to cover the discussion on gathering OpenStack-related research papers, and round up on activities from the summit. Today’s full agenda is here:

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] IRC Meeting reminder: Scientific WG, today 2100 UTC

2017-05-16 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a meeting coming up today at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. We’ve got plenty of follow-on discussions from the Boston summit and cloud congress, plus an interview of WG members on why OpenStack works well for research computing. Today’s full agenda is here:

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Today's Scientific WG meeting CANCELLED

2017-05-02 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - Unfortunately we must cancel today’s IRC meeting as none of the co-chairs are able to run the session. However, there’s plenty going on next week to look forward to: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/Scientific-WG-boston We

Re: [Openstack-operators] [scientific] Lightning talks on Scientific OpenStack

2017-04-27 Thread Stig Telfer
l be 10 minutes sessions like in Barcelona? > > Thanks, > George > >> On Apr 26, 2017, at 03:31, Stig Telfer <stig.openst...@telfer.org> wrote: >> >> Hi All - >> >> We have planned a session of lightning talks at the Boston summit to d

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC

2017-04-18 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting at the top of the hour (2100 UTC) in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. The agenda[1] is a round-up of some of the planning for Boston: Summit, Forum, Congress and Social. We’ll try to whistle through that and get onto AOB - of

Re: [Openstack-operators] Passing a flavor's extra_specs to libvirt

2017-04-13 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello Paco - > On 13 Apr 2017, at 11:10, Paco Bernabé wrote: > > Hi, > > The issue is apparently solved; we found a solution here > https://www.stackhpc.com/tripleo-numa-vcpu-pinning.html where libvirt and > qemu-kvm version restrictions where indicated. The

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 0900 UTC

2017-04-12 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting later today at 0900 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. The agenda[1] is a round-up of some of the Forum planning that has been going on in the last couple of weeks. We also have a round-up of the OpenStack angle at the HPC

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC

2017-03-21 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting later today at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. The agenda[1] is a round-up of the goings-on at the operators meetup in Milan and discussion on input to the Forum at Boston. Scientific WG meeting details are available

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Meeting today CANCELLED

2017-03-15 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - Today’s Scientific WG meeting is cancelled due to the Milan Ops meetup this week. There’s plenty of relevant action at the ops meetup (see the list of etherpads here[1]). Hopefully there’ll be a good trip report and plenty to discuss at next week’s meeting. Apologies for late

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting, Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-03-07 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting later today at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. The agenda[1] is a simple one - follow-on brainstorming for Scientific WG input to the Forum at Boston. Scientific WG meeting details are available here[2]. Best

Re: [Openstack-operators] Forum Brainstorming???

2017-03-01 Thread Stig Telfer
Thanks Shamail - We’ve just completed a first pass on our brainstorming in the Scientific WG. Some ideas from a research computing perspective are here: https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/BOS-UC-brainstorming-scientific-wg More input from WG members (and anyone else) is of course welcome and

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC meeting Wednesday 0900

2017-02-28 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting. Everyone is welcome. The agenda[1] is a simple one - brainstorming for Scientific WG input to the Forum at Boston. Best wishes, Stig [1]

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC meeting Tuesday 2100

2017-02-21 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting shortly, at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’ll survey some new work in the HPC monitoring landscape, look at the study coming together for identity

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] OpenStack at Supercomputing 2017

2017-02-07 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We are hoping to put on a couple of hands-on OpenStack workshops at the Supercomputing 2017 conference in Denver later this year. The proposal is to do a workshop on tuning OpenStack for scientific workloads, and a workshop on cloud-native deployment of scientific platforms and

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-02-07 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting in about an hour’s time, at 2100 UTC in channel #openstack-meeting The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’ll hear from Blair on his migration to a layer-3 ECMP fabric and the impact it has had on

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC Meeting Wednesday 1st 0900 UTC

2017-01-31 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we are talking about the Milan ops meetup, the Boston summit and SC2017 in Denver. Between those three

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-01-24 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Tuesday at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’d like to develop the discussion on what the WG can achieve for the Boston OpenStack Summit. We’d

[Openstack-operators] [scientific-wg][scientific] Reminder: IRC Meeting Wednesday 18th 0900 UTC

2017-01-17 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we are looking at some upcoming events in the calendar, and then talking about federation (in its

[Openstack-operators] Ansible-driven management of Dell server BIOS and RAID config

2017-01-10 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We’ve just published the sources and a detailed writeup for some new tools for Ansible-driven management of Dell iDRAC BIOS and RAID configuration: https://www.stackhpc.com/ansible-drac.html The code’s up on Github and Ansible Galaxy. It should fit neatly into any infrastructure

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2017-01-10 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Tuesday at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’d like get our calendars out and talk about upcoming events for 2017, in particular anything that

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-12-20 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’ve heard of a number of relevant events coming in early 2017 - not least of which, we’d like to

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-12-13 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Tuesday at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’d like to discuss how GPUs are handled in virtualised environments. Bring and share guidance for

Re: [Openstack-operators] [scientific] Computing Insight UK in Manchester - Scientific OpenStack breakout session?

2016-12-08 Thread Stig Telfer
if you would like to present. Best wishes, Stig > On 7 Dec 2016, at 10:24, Stig Telfer <stig.openst...@telfer.org> wrote: > > Hi All - > > Is anyone attending the Computing Insight conference in the UK next week, and > is there interest in organising an OpenStack br

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Computing Insight UK in Manchester - Scientific OpenStack breakout session?

2016-12-07 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - Is anyone attending the Computing Insight conference in the UK next week, and is there interest in organising an OpenStack breakout session on the Thursday afternoon? There doesn’t appear to be much for OpenStack in the breakout programme currently - and I think there ought to be...

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-12-06 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi everyone - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’d like to continue our focus on all things monitoring, spanning from application workload tracing

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-11-28 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi everyone - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Tuesday at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. Firstly this week we are planning to take a look at some experiments benchmarking TCP performance over VXLAN and

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] CANCELLED: Scientific WG IRC meeting Tuesday 15th November 2100 UTC

2016-11-14 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello All - Unfortunately there will be no Scientific WG meeting this week: by coincidence it conflicts with the Scientific OpenStack BoF at the Supercomputing 2016 conference. Apologies, Stig ___ OpenStack-operators mailing list

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC meeting Wednesday 9th November 0900 UTC

2016-11-08 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings All - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. We’d like to follow up on the events at Barcelona, and complete our planning of activity areas for the Ocata

Re: [Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC meeting Tuesday 1st November 2100 UTC

2016-11-03 Thread Stig Telfer
> On 3 Nov 2016, at 16:21, Álvaro López García <al...@ifca.unican.es> wrote: > > On 01 Nov 2016 (12:59), Stig Telfer wrote: >> Hi All - > > Hi All, > >> We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC on channel >> #openstack-meeting >>

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC meeting Tuesday 1st November 2100 UTC

2016-11-01 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. We’d like to follow up on the events at Barcelona, and plan activity areas for the Ocata design cycle. If anyone would like

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] This week's Scientific WG meeting

2016-10-17 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - Apologies, there will not be a WG meeting this week: Blair’s en route to Europe and I’ll be travelling home from the OpenStack Identity Federation workshop. Nevertheless I had two items to raise: - People interested in contributing lightning talks for the Scientific OpenStack BoF,

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Barcelona Scientific BoF: Call for lightning talks

2016-10-11 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have our schedule confirmed and will be having a BoF for Scientific OpenStack users at 2:15pm on the summit Wednesday: https://www.openstack.org/summit/barcelona-2016/summit-schedule/events/16779/scientific-working-group-bof-and-poster-session We are planning to run some

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-10-11 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi everyone - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we have our confirmed slots on the Barcelona summit schedule, plus other planning besides. Also

[Openstack-operators] Users of Ceph with Accelio?

2016-10-07 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - I’m interested in evaluating the performance of Ceph running over Accelio for RDMA data transport. From what I can see on the web, the early work done on adding RDMA support does not appear to have materialised yet into a stable production release. Is there anyone out there who has

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-09-27 Thread Stig Telfer
Greetings all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we have discussion on federated identity management on the agenda, plus updates on Barcelona.

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-09-20 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Tuesday at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we have updates on Barcelona, and are looking for OpenStack-centric picks from the Supercomputing 2016

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-09-13 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we are looking for HPC filesystem war stories (Lustre/GPFS etc), and discussing a new project for

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-08-30 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’ll be looking at gathering some top picks for a selection themed on scientific compute from the

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC Meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-08-23 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting today at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. In addition to the usual items this week I’d like to do some planning for activities at the Barcelona Summit. Best wishes,

Re: [Openstack-operators] [scientific] Seeking users of Infiniband

2016-08-17 Thread Stig Telfer
, or more the > RDMA capability and IB semantics supported by the drivers and APIs (so both > native IB and RoCE)? > > Cheers, > > > On 17 Aug 2016 2:28 AM, "Stig Telfer" <stig.openst...@telfer.org> wrote: > Hi All - > > I’m looking for some n

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Seeking users of Infiniband

2016-08-16 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - I’m looking for some new data points on people’s experience of using Infiniband within a virtualised OpenStack configuration. Is there anyone on the list who is doing this, and how well does it work? Many thanks, Stig ___

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Scientific WG meeting today CANCELLED

2016-08-09 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - Apologies, our dual-redundant co-chair strategy has failed, as I’m on vacation and Blair has taken ill. Unfortunately we shall need to cancel our meeting for later today and hope to come back stronger next week. Apologies for the short notice, Stig

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG Meeting Wednesday 0900 UTC

2016-08-02 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week in addition to the usual themes I thought it would be useful to share information about upcoming scientific

Re: [Openstack-operators] PCI Passthrough issues

2016-07-28 Thread Stig Telfer
Just out of interest, I saw this talk from DK Panda a few months ago which covers MPI developments, including for GPU-Direct and for running in virtualised environments: https://youtu.be/AsFakPJSplo Do you know if this means there is a version of MVAPICH2 that supports GPU-Direct optimised

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG Meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-07-26 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting later today at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’ll be focusing on planning for the Supercomputing conference. Best wishes, Stig [1]

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG Meeting July 20th 0900 UTC

2016-07-19 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday at 0900 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week if possible I’d like to review recent WG activities, in particular outputs for our user stories activity

Re: [Openstack-operators] [User-committee] [scientific-wg] high-performance/parallel file-systems panel at Barcelona

2016-07-12 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi Blair - Great idea, thanks for sharing it. We (Cambridge University) would love to be included if we can add value in the Lustre corner. Best wishes, Stig > On 12 Jul 2016, at 15:03, Blair Bethwaite wrote: > > Hi all, > > Just pondering summit talk

Re: [Openstack-operators] ACTION Needed - All WGs Chairs

2016-07-08 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello Edgar - Scientific WG checking in. Blair Bethwaite and I have been co-chairs since the group’s formal inauguration at the Austin summit. A brief summary of where we are: * We had about a hundred people present at the Austin session for the WG. The summit etherpad [1] shows how the WG

Re: [Openstack-operators] [User-committee] [scientific-wg] possible time change for non-US fortnightly meeting

2016-06-30 Thread Stig Telfer
Sounds good to me too! Best wishes, Stig > On 29 Jun 2016, at 07:49, Dario Vianello wrote: > > Same here :-) > > Thanks! > > > Dario Vianello > > Cloud Bioinformatics Application Architect > European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) > Wellcome Trust Genome Campus,

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG Meeting Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-06-28 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting later today at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. This week we’ll be looking at the HPC/Research track for the upcoming Barcelona summit, and a review of actions

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG IRC meeting: 2100 UTC

2016-06-14 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Tuesday 14 June at 2100 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. The headline agenda item is the Supercomputing 2016 conference in November in Salt Lake City. There are

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: IRC Meeting Wednesday 8 June 0700 UTC

2016-06-07 Thread Stig Telfer
Hello all - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting on Wednesday 8 June at 0700 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting. The agenda is available here[1] and full IRC meeting details are here[2]. The headline items for discussion are: - Accounting/Scheduling: Using Blazar on Chameleon - NeCTAR Research

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Reminder: Scientific WG Meeting Wednesday 0700 UTC

2016-05-24 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - We have a Scientific WG IRC meeting tomorrow at 0700 UTC on channel #openstack-meeting The agenda is available here[1]. Best wishes, Stig [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Scientific_working_group#IRC_Meeting_May_25th_2016 ___

[Openstack-operators] [scientific][scientific-wg] Scientific Working Group IRC meeting, Tuesday 2100 UTC

2016-05-16 Thread Stig Telfer
:20160525T07Z DURATION:PT1H DESCRIPTION:Project: Scientific Working Group\nChair: Blair Bethwaite (b lairo) and Stig Telfer (oneswig)\nDescription: The Scientific Working Gro up is dedicated to representing and advancing the use-cases and needs of r esearch and high-performance computing

[Openstack-operators] [scientific] Ironic Summit recap - ops experiences

2016-05-11 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi All - Jim Rollenhagen from the Ironic project has just posted a great summit report of Ironic team activities on the openstack-devs mailing list[1], which included this item which will be of interest to the Scientific WG members who are looking to work on bare metal activities this cycle:

Re: [Openstack-operators] [scientific][accounting] Resource management

2016-05-03 Thread Stig Telfer
Thanks Tim, this is a great read and sets out CERN’s experience and use cases for enhanced accounting very well. Best wishes, Stig > On 2 May 2016, at 18:02, Tim Bell wrote: > > > Following the discussions last week, I have put down a blog on how CERN does > it’s resource

Re: [Openstack-operators] Intel 10 GbE / bonding issue with hash policy layer3+4

2016-03-24 Thread Stig Telfer
Hi Sascha - I had a similar experience earlier this week. I was testing bond performance on a dual-port Mellanox NIC, LACP-bonded with layer 3+4 transmit hash. First run of iperf (8 streams), I saw a reasonable distribution across the links. Shortly after that, performance dropped to a

Re: [Openstack-operators] [gnocchi][ceilometer] Taking Scientific WG Ops Meetup Feedback back to Ceilometer

2016-03-04 Thread Stig Telfer
> On 4 Mar 2016, at 15:40, gordon chung wrote: > >> One part of the documentation set that we were missing was a guide to how to >> migrate from ceilometer to a ceilometer/gnocchi combination (which I >> understand is the ultimate architecture). We would like to migrate the >>