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Richard Darst and Radovan Bast
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- Early 2019: Richard visits Tromsø
- May 2019: Workshop at NeIC conference Reimagining Research Computing
- In the evening: restaurant visit and discussion
- Decision to organize this event ]
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Our program is designed with lots of breaks to talk and enjoy our time.
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- Denmark
- SDU 1
- KU 1
- DeiC 1
- Estonia
- Tartu 1
- Finland
- Aalto 5
- CSC 3
- Helsinki 3
- Tampere 1
- Oulu 3 ]
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- Iceland
- UI 1
- Norway
- UiO 1
- UiT 1
- Sweden
- KTH 1
- Linköping 1
- Lund 3
- Uppsala 3 ]
- Want to run your infrastructure better by sharing ideas and projects
- Want a network of like-minded people
- Want to ensure the future of "HPC" by adapting to the present
- Solve problems
- We could have more interaction
- Some national interaction, more international
- We all have similar problems, but invent our own solutions
- The whole concept of HPC needs development
- People are turned off because of usability and old-fashioned mindset
- "HPC" often means "big stuff"
- Clusters should be an appropriate place also for medium sized jobs
- Too much focus on https://www.top500.org?
- Some academic domains are better served than others
- Documentation is often not adapted to user needs
- Often too much bureaucracy to get on a machine
- Interfaces often limited to terminal
- Clusters aren't adapting to the needs of users
- Usability is driving people out
- Often it's easier to spend your own money on commercial cloud services
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- We all have the similar problems, but different unique solutions. Why not share?
- Let's also share the "bad" ideas: things that did not work out.
- We have the talk "Cool things and problems" and lightning talks.
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. [African proverb]
- It's fun to work alone, but can be even more fun to work together
- https://github.com/NordicHPC/ is a shared repository for "stuff" - anything that could be useful.
- Donating to shared maintenance means more eyes, more use, and more visibility.
- More info in a lightning talk.
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- "HPC" means "big stuff". It can be perceived as exclusive and excluding. Our clusters are appropriate for more than the big stuff.
- We want everyone to see the value of our services.
- Including "HPC" in our name isn't exactly the way to do that.
- There are plenty of Nordic computing meetings and projects, but few focused on our specific type of problem.
- The Nordic e-Infrastructure Collaboration (NeIC) will probably fund more meetings like this if we make a good case.
- To be discussed at the end of the meeting, under "future".
- We need to set the stage behind what we are doing.
- Richard will present practical info next.