Thank you for attending the Fourth Annual Mass Open Cloud (MOC) Workshop, held on October 30-31, 2018 at Boston University. The MOC workshop welcomed over 150 users of the MOC, researchers, and startups interested in cloud computing, students, and industry partners. The workshop provided an opportunity for the MOC’s growing and active community to learn about the latest MOC developments, and help shape the priorities of the project moving forward and kick-off new collaborations.
October 30, 2018 – Main Workshop
Location
George Sherman Union
Metcalf Audtorium (2nd floor)
Boston University
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA 02215
7:30 AM – 7:00 PM
Agenda and Schedule
| 07:30-08:00 | Check-in and Breakfast |
| 08:00-08:50 | Welcome and Overview slides – Introductory Remarks – Gloria Waters, Boston University video – Keynote: Scaling Challenges at Two Sigma – Mark Astley, Head of Reliability Engineering, Two Sigma Investments slides video – Overview of the Day – Orran Krieger, BU/MOC, and Peter Desnoyers, NEU/MOC slides |
| 8:50 – 10:25 | Micro-talks: What’s Coming on the MOC – MGHPCC: A Platform for Collaboration – Jim Culbert, MGHPCC slides video – The Next Iteration of the MOC – Lars Kellogg-Stedman, Red Hat slides video – Intel’s Data Management Platform @MOC – Dave Cohen, Intel slides video – Cisco: Multi-cloud services for the MOC and its users– Michael Shepherd, Cisco slides video – Harvard Dataverse and the MOC – Mercè Crosas, Harvard University slides poster video – Using the Mass Open Cloud to perform Data Science Experiments – Sherard Griffin, Red Hat slides video – Looking towards the computing horizon: A Northeast Cyberinfrastructure Lab – Wayne Gilmore, Boston University & Scott Yokel, Harvard University slides video Q&A Panel – Moderated by Orran Krieger, BU/MOC |
| 10:25 – 10:55 | Break |
| 10:55-12:05 | Micro-talks: Research in an Open Cloud – Working on an Open Cloud: Red Hat Collaboratory Projects on the Mass Open Cloud – Hugh Brock, Red Hat slides video – Logging What Matters: Presenting Pythia and Just-in-Time Instrumentation – Emre Ates, BU & Lily Sturmann, BU/Red Hat slides poster video – The workflow motif: A powerful abstraction for debugging distributed applications– Mania Abdi, NEU/MOC & Golsana Ghaemi, BU/MOC slides poster video – D3N: A multi-layer cache for improving big-data applications’ performance in data centers with imbalanced networks– Matt Benjamin, Red Hat; Emine Ugur Kaynar, BU/MOC & Ali Marieda, Red Hat slides video – Bump-in-the-Wire FPGAs and HPC in the Cloud – Ahmed Sanaullah, BU – Q&A Panel – Moderated by Peter Desnoyers, NEU/MOC |
| 12:05 – 1:05 | Lunch & Networking – Special thanks to Two Sigma for sponsoring this year’s MOC Workshop lunch! |
| 1:05 – 1:20 | Lunch & Viewing of ChRIS Project Videos During the final 15 minutes of lunch, we will share videos on the ChRIS project. |
| 1:20 – 2:35 | Micro-talks: Elastic Hardware and Security Creating Isolation in the Cloud – Nabil Schear, MIT Lincoln Laboratory slides video Malleable Metal: Integrating San-booting with Foreman – Naved Ansari, BU/MOC & Ian Ballou, BU/MOC slides video Agentless Bare-Metal Introspection – Apoorve Mohan, NEU/MOC slides video The Security in Elastic Secure Infrastructure– Amin Mosayyebzadeh, BU/MOC slides poster video Strong Isolation, Verification, and Control in Future Public Clouds – Rushi Patel, BU FLOCX: Enabling marketplace at the bottom of the cloud – Sahil Tikale, BU/MOC slides video Q&A Panel – Moderated by Orran Krieger, BU/MOC |
| 2:35 – 3:40 | Micro-talks: Research on an Open Cloud Medical Image Processing on the MOC with ChRIS and OpenShift – Dan McPherson, Red Hat & Rudolph Pienaar, Boston Children’s Hospital slides video Secure Multi-Party Computing in the Cloud – Ben Getchell, BU slides demo video A demonstration of adapting HW to SW needs for network workloads – Han Dong, BU poster video A Unikernal based on Linux – Ali Raza, BU & Parul Sohal, BU slides video FaaS: Think Outside the Container – Tommy Unger, BU slides video Q&A Panel – Moderated by Pater Desnoyers, NEU/MOC |
| 3:40 – 4:10 | Break |
| 4:10 – 4:55 | Roundtables (Attendees will pick one to attend) Future Research Opportunities in the MOC – facilitated by Ayse Coskun, BU; Raja Sambasivan, BU & Mayank Varia, BU Link to Cloud Research Roundtable Notes Data Science and the MOC – facilitated by Merce Crosas, Harvard University & Sherard Griffin, Red Hat Link to Data Science Roundtable Looking towards the computing horizon: A Northeast Cyberinfrastructure Lab – facilitated by John Goodhue, MGHPCC & Scott Yokel, Harvard University Link to NECI Lab Roundtable Notes |
| 4:55 – 5:10 | Break (Roundtable leads prepare report outs) |
| 5:10 – 5:30 | Roundtable Report Outs |
| 5:30 – 5:40 | Closing Remarks |
| 5:40 – 6:45 | Reception – Special thanks to Red Hat for sponsoring this year’s MOC Workshop reception! |
October 31, 2018 – Tutorials and (Invitation-Only) Meeting of the MOC Academic Advisory Board and Core Partners
Events
Special Meeting of the Academic Advisory Board and Core Partner Executives
8AM – 1PM
Invitation only
Location: Center for Integrated Life Sciences and Engineering, 610 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215
Tutorial Sessions
| 09:00-09:55 | Open DataHub – Sherard Griffin, Red Hat |
| 10:00-10:55 | OpenShift led by Robert Baron, BU/MOC and Dan McPherson, Red Hat |
| 11:00-11:55 | OpenStack led by Hannah Gibson, Red Hat |
Location
Hariri Institute for Computing
111 Cummington Mall
Seminar Room (in suite 180)
Boston, MA 02215
In Advance of the Tutorial
Sign up for an MOC account here.
If you are interested in learning more before the Tutorials (NOT required)
Only if you want, take a look at the “Getting Started” part of the wiki, to review what will be covered during the OpenStack tutorial:
https://github.com/CCI-MOC/moc-public/wiki/Getting-started
Three sessions will be offered back-to-back in the same room. You are welcome to come attend as many of the sessions as you’d like and you are welcome leave and return.
Session Descriptions and Materials
Open DataHub: The Mass Open Cloud and Red Hat have partnered up to provide the Open Data Hub, an open source AI as a Service platform. Users will access the Data Hub for artificial intelligence and machine learning research. In this tutorial you will learn how to upload data to the Data Hub, use JupyterHub to create models using machine learning libraries, and store the results.
MOC OpenShift: OpenShift offers users a self-scaling container platform with support for anything that can be containerized including web frameworks, databases, and messaging queues. In seconds, one can spin up new containers along with rich continuous integration/deployment capabilities built in. This tutorial will introduce you to the essentials of the OpenShift offering that’s been available in the MOC for the past year. OpenShift Tutorial slides
OpenStack: The MOC offers an Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) offering based on OpenStack, providing users with self-service access to virtual machines, object storage, and on-demand Big Data environments (Hadoop, Spark, Pig etc.). This tutorial will show you how to get started using this environment.
The MOC Workshop is made possible by the generosity of our Core Partners
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