Click here for 2020 Open Cloud Workshop Follow-Up: Opportunities to Get Involved
March 2 – 3, 2020
Boston University
George Sherman Union
Metcalf Ballroom (second floor)
775 Commonwealth Avenue
Boston, MA
The Open Cloud Workshop (formerly MOC Workshop) was held on March 2-3, 2020 at Boston University. This year, given exciting developments associated with the MOC, the OC Workshop convened the MOC community with key stakeholders of the Open Cloud Testbed (OCT), OpenStack Foundation (OSF) Open Infra Labs (OIL) project, New England Research Cloud (NERC).
The OC Workshop welcomed users of the MOC, CloudLab, and associated projects, researchers and startups interested in cloud computing, industry partners, members of the OpenStack Foundation, and students. The workshop was designed to engage all parties across a range of experience with these efforts.
This year, the Open Cloud Workshop included multiple segments of Micro-talks. Proposals were submitted via an open call – additional details on the areas of focus and the criteria were available on the 2020 Open Cloud Workshop Talk and Poster Proposal Form.
Materials from Workshop
Monday, March 2
| Welcome and Overview of Mass Open Cloud, Open Cloud Testbed, New England Research Cloud (NERC), OpenInfra Labs and Operate First | slides – video |
| Keynote: Chris Wright, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Red Hat | slides – video |
| Micro-talks I | segment video (all talks in segment) |
| Micro-talks I: The Open Cloud FPGA Testbed – Supporting Research on Emerging Datacenter Configurations – Martin Herbordt, BU, and Miriam Leeser, NU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks I: Programming FPGAs – The Open Source Way – Ahmed Sanaullah, Red Hat | slides – video |
| Micro-talks I: Leveraging Distributed Research Cloud Infrastructures for Domain Science Research and Experimentation – Anirban Mandal, RENCI | slides – video |
| Micro-talks I: Strategic Management of Shared Cloud Resources – Jonathan Chamberlain and Zhenpeng Shi, BU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks I: Secure and Customized Hypervisor with Qemu – Daniele Buono, IBM | slides – video |
| Industry Luminaries Panel | segment video |
| Keynote: Matthew Adiletta, Senior Fellow and the Director of the Systems Innovation Lab, Intel | |
| Micro-talks II | segment video (all talks in segment |
| Micro-talks II: Harvard Data Commons – Merce Crosas, Harvard University | slides – video |
| Micro-talks II: RSpace electronic lab notebook: an inter-operable active data management tool forming part of the Harvard Data Commons, and plans for a pilot on NERC – Rory Macneil, RSpace | slides – video – poster |
| Micro-talks II: The Open Storage Network, John Goodhue, MGHPCC | slides – video |
| Micro-talks II: What is FABRIC? – Paul Ruth, RENCI | slides – video |
| Micro-talks II: Where is Ironic, and where is it going? – Julia Kreger, Red Hat | slides – video |
| Closing Remarks | closing remarks video |
Tuesday , March 3
| Keynote – Giovanni Pacifici, Vice President of Hybrid Cloud, IBM | |
| Open Cloud Testbed: Developing a Testbed for the Research Community Exploring Next-Generation Cloud Platforms | CCRI slides – Overview slides – segment video |
| Infrastructure for Cloud Computing Research Panel | segment video |
| Micro-talks III: Challenges and Opportunities for AI Industrialization – Hui Lei, Futurewei | slides – video |
| Micro-talks III: Bayesian Learning for Online Parameter Tuning of Complex Scientific Applications– Rohan Basu Roy, NU | |
| Micro-talks III: Hybrid Cloud Storage – Emine Ugur Kaynar, BU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks III: Impact of OS Design and Hardware Configuration on the Power Performance Tradeoff – Han Dong, BU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks III: Using ESI in (De)-Centralized Environments: Why and How? – Sahil Tikale, BU, and Apoorve Mohan, NU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks IV | |
| Micro-talks IV: Providing fast and meaningful insights into enterprise datacenters- John Liagouris, BU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks IV: A Just-in-Time Framework for Tracing Distributed Cloud Applications – Emre Ates, BU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks IV: Workflow motif: an abstraction for debugging distributed systems – Mania Abdi, NU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks IV: Challenges and opportunities in large-scale stream processing – Vasiliki Kalavri, BU | slides – video |
| Micro-talks IV: Fuzzing Virtual Devices in Cloud Hypervisors – Alexander Bulekov, BU | slides – video |
| Deep Dive: The Open Cloud *FPGA* Testbed – Martin Herbordt, Boston University & Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University | |
| Deep Dive: Open Data Hub Demo and discussion focused on Research Computing Facilitators and Researchers – Sherard Griffin, Red Hat | |
| Deep Dive: OpenStack on CloudLab Demo and Tutorial – David Irwin, UMass Amherst | slides |
| Hybrid Cloud Storage – Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University | |
| Deep Dives & Micro-talks Q&A/Discussion | Discussion from talks |
Additional Posters
| Opportunities and Challenges of a Low-Cost HPC in a Bare-Metal Marketplace – PI: Gene Cooperman, NU |
| OpenInfra Labs: An OSF Project – OpenStack Foundation |
| DIBBS: Northeast Storage Exchange – PI: Saul Youssef, BU; Co-PIs: Scott Yockel (Harvard), Chris Hill (MIT), John Goodhue (MGHPCC), Devesh Tiwari (NU), Mike Zink (UMass) |
Birds of a Feather Discussion Groups
Throughout the workshop we provided space and resources for Birds of a Feather discussion groups. These were less formal than Deep Dives. Additional information on these sessions can be found on Birds of a Feather Groups Sign Up and Details spreadsheet.
Contact
Please contact Jennifer Stacy with any questions or to be added to the mailing list to receive updates on the Workshop and future events.