Welcome and Introduction

• Daniele Passerone (Empa)
• Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS)

Room: Akademie I

Using SaltStack to Manage a Cluster Centrally

• Yann Sagon (University of Geneva)

Room: Akademie I SaltStack is a way to apply "states" to a bunch of servers. It is easy to customize the states based on a central configuration files (pillar) or nodes spec (grains). We coupled this software with kickstart and clush to be able to re install a node or server untenanted. This permits to re-install the whole cluster on a regular basis instead of updating it.

Experiences Deploying Slurm Clusters on OpenStack using MagicCastle

• Victor Holanda Rusu (CSCS)

Room: Akademie I Magic Castle is project that aims to replicate Compute Canada’s user experience in public clouds. Here we present the four different configuration management tools used in the project and what they are used for.

A Look at Some Scalable HPC Configuration Management Tools

• Miguel Gila (CSCS)

Room: Akademie I Going through the history of recent CSCS’ large supercomputers, we look at how the CM tools have evolved and how we work with them to get our systems to be configured efficiently at scale.

Configuration Management on a Secure OpenStack Environment

• Jani Heikkinen (University of Basel)

Room: Akademie I Managing secure scientific infrastructure is challenging. We present the constraints encountered during deployment of secure OpenStack environment and configuration management tools introduced to address them.

Community Development

• Michele De Lorenzi (CSCS)
• Christian Bollliger (ETH Zurich)

Room: Akademie I The session will be dedicated to: - Members Update after Two years of Pandemic: Latest Developments in our Organization. Members are kindly invited to give a 10-min presentation on the current activity status. - Selection of topics of interest, themes and location for future forums.

Guided Tour - Automated Driving Sensor Testing Vehicle

• Dejan Milojevic (Empa)
• Christian Hohl (Empa)

Room: Akademie I Autonomous vehicles have the potential to positively influence future traffic behavior. Nevertheless, the new technology opens social, legal, economical and technical questions. A significant technical question concerns the necessary minimum technical requirements for self-driving cars to make them street legal. We focus in testing the autonomous driving sensors in real world driving under different weather, light and contamination conditions. Storage and computational resources are important for our research, since we are producing a lot of data and we need computational power in order to execute the perception algorithms for AD and to analyze the performance of them.

Farewell and End of the Meeting Room: Akademie I