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, Room 1040
- Directions from Hampton Inn: https://goo.gl/maps/V23D3tCRYa92
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
See Container Analysis Environments Participants.
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/
- Google Drive: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0B8i3lba1_nLwVmt4LUxuaTV6NTQ?usp=sharing
Schedule:
Below is the latest 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Introduction/welcome Logistics | Data Exploration Lab (Turk)/NDS (Willis) |
| 9:30 - 11:00 | Presentations Discussion | LSST/DES (Kind) Blue Waters (Bauer) LIGO (Haas, Huerta) |
| 11:00 - 11:15 | Break | |
| 11:15 - 12:30 | Presentations Discussion | Cyverse (McEwen) Cyverse/TACC (Fonner) Whole Tale (Turk, Kowalik) |
| 12:30 - 1:30 | Lunch | |
| 1:30 - 3:00 | Presentations Discussion | yt.Hub/RSL (Turk, Kowalik) SDSC (Zonca) SciServer (Lemson) |
| 3:00 - 3:15 | Break | |
| 3:15 - 4:45 | Presentations Discussion | TERRA-REF (LeBauer, Burnette) CyberGIS (Liu, Terstriep) Coastal Modeling Collaboratory (Tao) NDS Labs Workbench (Willis) |
| 4:45 - 5:30 | 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | |
|---|---|---|
| 9:00 - 9:30 | Discussion/planning | |
| 9:30 - 11:30 | Breakout groups | |
| 11:30 - 12:00 | Closing |
Where to eat
A few recommendations for places to eat in Champaign/Urbana:
- Golden Harbor (Chinese)
- Black Dog (BBQ)
- Big Grove
- Bread Company
- Seven Saints (Bar w/ food)
- Papa Del's (deep-dish pizza)