StackHPC returned to the HPC Advisory Council conference in Lugano, Switzerland. Stig was delighted to be able to participate in a keynote address, on using Ceph within the Human Brain Project.
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The State of HPC Containers
A conference attended by representatives from all the leading container runtime environments used in research computing brought the opportunity to understand the commonality and differences.
read moreScientific SIG at the Dublin PTG
The OpenStack PTG invited the Scientific SIG to participate, and we were certainly glad that we did.
read moreThe Gathering of the (Snow) Clouds
StackHPC sent a full team away to the Rocky PTG in Dublin. Here's the trip report from an eventful week.
read moreStackHPC at the RCUK Cloud Workshop
Nick Jones, Stig Telfer, John Taylor and John Garbutt attended the third Research Councils UK Cloud Workshop. Stig and John G gave presentations.
read moreFuture Science on Future OpenStack: CERN and SKA
Stig presented at OpenStack Sydney on the CERN/SKA future science platforms collaboration with Belmiro Moreira from CERN. Here we describe that collaboration in a little more depth and how we see it taking shape in future.
read moreVerne Global's hpcDIRECT Service: Bare Metal Powered by Molten Rock
Verne Global announce hpcDIRECT, built upon bare metal OpenStack, to deliver "the cleanest HPC on Earth".
read moreBaremetal Cloud Capacity
Discussion of scheduling baremetal resources using OpenStack Pike and looking at news from the Denver PTG about what is likely going to happen during Queens and beyond.
read moreNick Jones Joins our Team
Nick Jones joins the StackHPC team, extending our developer capability and bringing deep experience of OpenStack cloud operations.
read moreStackHPC at OpenStack Sydney
Stig attended the OpenStack Sydney summit with the team from Cambridge University. Stig helped lead two Scientific SIG sessions. In addition to that he did a lightning talk and two presentations. What a week!
read moreScheduling Baremetal Resources in Pike
Discussion of scheduling baremetal resources using OpenStack Pike and looking at news from the Denver PTG about what is likely going to happen during Queens and beyond.
read moreUpgrade to Pike using Kolla and Kayobe
A control plane upgrade from Ocata to Pike, using Kolla and Kayobe. How we prepared for it and what happened on the day.
read moreJohn Garbutt Joins our Team
John Garbutt joins the StackHPC team, giving us new and enhanced capabilities to push the boundaries of Scientific OpenStack.
read moreClusters for Scientific Applications: as-a-Service
The marriage of Heat and Ansible for delivering scientific applications that are simple to deploy and manage.
read moreHPC Networking in OpenStack: Part 2
Part 2 of our series on HPC networking in OpenStack covers managing physical and virtual network infrastructure as code using the Kayobe project.
read moreEthernet's future is approaching - fast
StackHPC attended the Mellanox product launch for a new generation of switches, built around their Spectrum-2 ASIC, and delivering link speeds up to 400Gbits/s.
read moreOur loss is Norway's gain: StackHPC is recruiting
We say farewell to Steve Simpson, our highly valued technical lead on monitoring, and look ahead to replacing him with new blood for the team.
read moreHPC Networking in OpenStack: Part 1
Part 1 of our series on HPC networking in OpenStack showcases the varied networking capabilities of one of our recent OpenStack deployments, the Performance Prototype Platform (P3) built for the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) telescope's Science Data Processor (SDP).
read moreExtending TripleO for the HPC-enabled Overcloud
A rainy day activity led to the refactoring of large swathes of our TripleO-driven deployment process for HPC-enabled OpenStack infrastructure.
read moreStackHPC at ACCU 2017
StackHPC presents on asynchronous C++ for I/O and networking at ACCU 2017
read moreHPCAC Conference End Note: The Case for a Scientific OpenStack
StackHPC attended the HPC Advisory Council conference in Lugano, Switzerland. Stig was delighted to be able to give the endnote address, on Scientific OpenStack, to close the conference.
read moreZero-Touch Provisioning using Ironic Inspector and Dell iDRAC
Ironic Inspector's new capabilities unlock the possibility of using OpenStack for the zero-touch provisioning of new hardware. Here we investigate these features and demonstrate a way of commissioning new hardware with minimal operator involvement.
read moreStackHPC at PGDay Paris 2017
Extending Monasca to use Postgres for OpenStack monitoring and logging
read moreLogging Services for Guest Workloads: A Step Closer
Monasca's multi-tenant capabilities are being extended to support multi-tenant logging. Here's our take on how this new service will add value for doing research computing on OpenStack.
read moreStackHPC at the Sanger Centre OpenStack Day
StackHPC presents plans for using OpenStack to support SKA prototyping infrastructure.
read moreStackHPC at FOSDEM/PGDay 2017
StackHPC presents designs for extending Monasca with support for Postgres
read moreTripleO, NUMA and vCPU Pinning: Improving Guest Performance
Virtualised performance can be boosted through using NUMA passthrough and vCPU Pinning. This article describes how it's done in an environment deployed with TripleO
read moreManaging BIOS and RAID in the Hyperscale Era
Using Ansible and Ironic for firmware configuration management.
read moreUnderstanding VXLAN+OVS Bandwidth Issues
A study of some of the VXLAN network performance issues we encountered while working on the OpenStack/HPC cloud at Cambridge University, and what we did to resolve them.
read moreStackHPC at Supercomputing 2016
Momentum gathers for Scientific OpenStack and StackHPC
read moreStackHPC at OpenStack Barcelona
SuperUser Reports on OpenStack Foundation Visit to Cambridge
A Little Fun in a Historical Context
A Little Fun in a Historical Context
read moreOpenStack and High Performance Data
OpenStack and High Performance Data
read moreStackHPC at OpenStack Day UK
OpenStack and HPC Workload Management
OpenStack and HPC Workload Management
read moreOpenStack and HPC Infrastructure Management
OpenStack and HPC Infrastructure Management
read moreOpenStack and HPC Network Fabrics
OpenStack and HPC network fabrics
read moreOpenStack and Virtualised HPC
HPC and the overhead of virtualisation
read moreMellanox OFED for the Overcloud
Enabling RDMA Support in OpenStack Overcloud Images
read moreTalking the Scientific Working Group at OpenStack Austin
StackHPC at Computing Insight UK
StackHPC at OpenStack Tokyo