Information about the 2017 Container Analysis Environments Workshop hosted by the Data Exploration Lab and NDS.
Date/Location
- August 14-16, 2017
- National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
- 1205 W. Clark St, Urbana, IL
Goals
The idea of this workshop emerged from the 7th NDS Workshop as an opportunity for groups leveraging container-based technologies in research computing environments to build community, share information and address common challenges.
We are proposing the following themes (please feel free to suggest other topics):
- Users/researchers and why they are using container-based environments (e.g., consistent environments, packaging applications, shifting computation around)
- Interactive vs non-interactive use cases including approaches to workflow management, orchestration, scalability, and moving analysis to HPC environments
- Data/storage focusing on models for managing and exposing data to containers
- Security/permissions/licensing
- Challenges/what new use cases are we seeing?
The goal will be to approach this from both user and system perspectives, focusing on the science/research cases and how technical solutions are addressing these needs.
Workshop report
- One output of the workshop will be a report summarizing common use cases, best practices, and challenges supporting container-based analysis and computing environments.
Participating groups (tentative)
Format:
The format of the workshop will be presentations mixed with discussions, working groups, or deep-dive presentations. The working groups will be self-organized, based on the goals and needs of participants. Each person/group will present for ~20 minutes. Participants will be from a variety of backgrounds. Presentations should cover supported science cases, overall systems architecture, and any challenges/new directions related to supporting container-based analysis and computing environments.
Communication:
- Slack: https://nationaldataservice.slack.com/ #container-workshop channel
- Forum: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/container-analysis-environments
- Github: https://github.com/nds-org/container-analysis-workshop/
- Wiki: https://nationaldataservice.atlassian.net/
Schedule (tentative):
Below is the tentative workshop schedule. Presentations and times are subject to change. Please contact us with any dietary restrictions.
Monday August 14th
Tentative: The first day we will focus on participant presentations with significant Q&A and discussion time. Topics that emerge from the presentations will be considered for breakout/deep-dive discussions on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Time | Description | |
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9:00 - 9:30 | Introduction/welcome | NDS/DataExpLab |
9:30 - 11:00 | Presentations Discussion | Cyverse Cyverse/TACC SciServer |
11:00 - 11:15 | Break | |
11:15 - 12:30 | Presentations Discussion | yt.Hub Whole Tale RSL |
12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
1:30 - 3:00 | Presentations Discussion | Blue Waters LSST/DES? |
3:00 - 3:15 | Break | |
3:15 - 4:00 | Presentations Discussion | TERRA-REF CyberGIS NDS Labs |
4:00 - 5:00 | Discussion/planning |
Tuesday August 15th
Tentative: Based on discussions from Monday, we will organize breakout/deep-dive discussions for topics of interest (feel free to suggest). Additional presentations may be scheduled, depending on participation:
Time | Description | |
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9:00 - 9:30 | Discussion/planning | |
9:30 - 11:30 | Breakout groups | Break ~10:45 |
11:30 - 12:00 | Group discussion | |
1:00 - 3:00 | Breakout groups | |
3:00 - 3:15 | Break | |
3:15 - 4:30 | Presentations/discussion | |
4:30 - 5:00 | Planning |
Wednesday August 16th
Tentative: We will use the morning to conclude any break-out work and to consolidate group output (presentations, documents, etc) for the workshop report.
Time | Description | |
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9:00 - 9:30 | Discussion/planning | |
9:30 - 11:30 | Breakout groups | |
11:30 - 12:00 | Closing |