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Systems-Facing Track Call, January 19th, 2023
January 19, 2023 @ 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Systems-Facing Track, Thursday January 19th, 2023 1pm ET/ 12pm CT/ 11am MT/ 10am PT/ 8am HT
Topic: Deploying web-based software to enable self-service HPC for researchers on the commercial cloud
Discussion lead by: Ken Bigelow, Systems Administrator, UBC Advanced Research Computing, Jacob Boschee, Systems Administrator, UBC Advanced Research Computing, and Venkat Mahadevan, Cloud Architect, UBC Advanced Research Computing
Description: While more and more academic researchers are venturing into the use of commercial cloud, many of these researchers do not have experience with system administration or managing cloud services. This can present a challenge to research IT teams and units who do not have the capacity to manage commercial cloud infrastructure for individual research groups. The Advanced Research Computing (ARC) team at the University of British Columbia (UBC) is using the web-based software RONIN to simplify both the delivery of commercial cloud-based HPC services as well as the backend system administration. Started as a pilot in January 2020, our team has recently moved the offering into a University-wide production service. We’ll briefly talk about our research community and the challenges faced with public cloud using the default user interfaces provided by commercial cloud providers such as AWS. We will share our experience deploying, supporting and troubleshooting RONIN as well as the supporting AWS environment. We will also demonstrate a live demo of what a researcher just starting out will experience on RONIN and what it takes to setup their software and workflow in a cloud environment. Call Coordinates (Zoom): Due to the recent trend in ZoomBombing, please contact the S-F Track Chairs for the Zoom call information, and please include your name and affiliation.
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