The workshop is back again at the Francis Crick Institute in central London on the 3rd March. This year we welcome the newly appointed Director of e-Infrastructure for UKRI, James Hetherington. The programme includes speakers from a range of academic centres and representation from industry as well as regulars to this event such as CERN and the UK MetOffice.
Programme
| Timing | Plenary / Strand A Sessions Auditorium 2 | Strand B Sessions Auditorium 1 |
| 09:15 | Registration + teas/coffee | |
| 10:00 | Introduction – Philip Kershaw, STFC | |
| Data & Computers & Code & People – plans for a distributed national digital research infrastructure – James Hetherington, Director of e-Infrastructure for UKRI | ||
| 10:20 | Session 1a – Cloud Pilots Chair: Philip Kershaw, STFC | Session 1b – Hybrid Cloud Chair: Chris Edsall, University of Bristol |
| The Sky is the limit: our journey to the Cloud – Stefano Angioni, University of Bath | Describing portable applications with TOSCA -James DesLauriers, University of Westminster | |
| Platform thrash! Getting Broad Hail / Spark software to work at scale in Sanger and Google and Sanger – Vivek Iyer, Wellcome Sanger Institute | Prototyping a hybrid cloud/on-premise CI/CD system for Nektar++, Christopher Cave-Ayland, Imperial College | |
| Porting and performance of DiRAC HPC benchmarks on Oracle bare metal cloud – Andy Turner, EPCC/DiRAC | Million core-hour rendering simulation on Cloud – Mitigating hybrid, scale, security and Cloud capacity challenges – Geoff Newell, AppsBroker | |
| Question time | ||
| 11:20 | Break – teas/coffee | |
| 11:45 | Session 2a – Organisation challenges in Cloud Computing – procurement, data governance, legal controls, cost controls Chair: David Fergusson, University of Edinburgh | Session 2b – HPC in the cloud, performance and benchmarking Chair: Steve Hindmarsh, Francis Crick Institute |
| Productive research on sensitive data using cloud-based secure research environments – Martin O’Reilly, Turing Institute | Early results of AWS testing for research computing at the Crick – Steve Hindmarsh, Francis Crick Institute | |
| Best Practice in Secure Research Computing – Stig Telfer, StackHPC | Towards HPC resiliency, breakout and temporary transition in the Cloud – Cliff Addison, University of Liverpool | |
| ASCLEPIOS – Health Care Security – Dr Gabriele Pierantoni, University of Westminster | Cluster in the Cloud: Easy, Scalable and Heterogeneous – Matt Williams, University of Bristol | |
| Question time | Question time | |
| 12:50 | Lunch – buffet lunch | |
| 13:50 | Session 3a – Development, deployment and operations for private and/or community clouds Chair: Tim Cutts, Wellcome Sanger Institute | Session 3b – Lightning Talks Chair: Simon Thompson, University of Birmingham |
| CERN Cloud Infrastructure Updates – Theodoros Tsioutsias, CERN | Migrating a UK Genomics Organisation from public cloud to on-prem HPC Cloud – David Power, vScaler | |
| Challenges in Scaling STFC Cloud – Alex Dibbo and Martin Summers, STFC | Tales From the Front Line Installing HPC in the Cloud – Owen Thomas, Red Oak Consulting | |
| Autoscaling, Reservation, Contention and Preemption – the Coral Reef Cloud – Pierre Riteau, John Garbutt and Steve Brasier, StackHPC | ARCHIVER – R&D for cloud-based Archiving & Long-Term Data Preservation Services – João Fernandes, CERN | |
| JASMIN’s Cloudy path to Nirvana – Jonathan Churchill, STFC | JupyterHub on Private Cloud – Vladimir Kiselev, Informatics Team Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute | |
| Convergence of AI and HPC Workloads – Implications for Cloud-Native and Hybrid Architectures – Gaurav Kaul, HPE | ||
| Question time | Question time | |
| 15:05 | Break – teas/coffee | |
| 15:35 | Session 4a – Addressing challenges integrating storage and data access interfaces for scientific workloads Chair: Adam Huffman, Big Data Institute, University of Oxford | Session 4b – Demos Chair: Andy Powell, Jisc |
| How to consume your data in the cloud without it costing the Earth? – CD Tiwari, EMBL-EBI | A Universe from Nothing: Containerised OpenStack deployment using Kolla, Ansible and Kayobe – Stig Telfer, StackHPC | |
| Building a distributed HPC-like environment using Federated Slurm and CephFS for processing astronomy data from the Euclid satellite – Mark Holliman, University of Edinburgh | Cluster-as-a-Service for the JASMIN Cloud, Matt Pryor, STFC | |
| Adopt a Cloud to change Research Computing at Diamond – Andrew Richards, Chris Reynolds, Diamond Lightsource | InstanceHub: Simple provisioning of cloud instances for training – Paul Richmond, University of Sheffield | |
| OpenFlightHPC – Stu Franks, Alces Flight Ltd | ||
| Question time | Question time | |
| 16:50 | Reconvene in Auditorium 2 … | |
| 17:00 | Final Plenary | |
| Sum-up, feedback, next steps, cloud strategy for research community | ||
| 17:10 | Reception – drinks, light refreshments | |
| 18:00 | Close |
