Hello everyone, Our Research IT Reading Group topic next week will be an open discussion of ideas (no leading presentation). The topic is:
Experiments scaling computational resources with JupyterHub <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/x/DQiPBw> *When:* Thursday, March 10 from noon - 1pm *Where:* 200C Warren Hall, 2195 Hearst St (see building access instructions on parent page <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/display/istrit/Research+IT+Reading+Group>). *Event format:* The reading group is a brown bag lunch (bring your own). This session will be an open discussion of ideas. *Partial list of featured participants:* Elaine Angelino (AMPLab); Matthias Bussonier (BIDS); Shreyas Cholia (LBNL/NERSC);Ryan Lovett (Statistics Compute Facility); Fernando Perez (BIDS); et al. *Facilitators:* Kevin Koy, Patrick Schmitz ==== Research IT's Berkeley Research Computing <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/research-it.berkeley.edu/brc> (BRC) and the Berkeley Institute for Data Science <http://bids.berkeley.edu/> (BIDS) will partner to deploy a new JupyterHub server that has significant computing capacity on the server itself, and can also submit compute-intensive tasks to the Comet super-computing resource <http://www.sdsc.edu/services/hpc/hpc_systems.html#comet> at SDSC. The server is being provided by partners at the San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) under the NSF grant supporting the Pacific Research Platform <http://citris-uc.org/connected-communities/project/pacific-research-platform-uc-san-diego-uc-berkeley-lead-creation-of-west-coast-big-data-freeway-system/>. BRC and BIDS will jointly support the server to facilitate experiments aimed at discovering how to constructively support JupyterHub technologies for use by campus researchers, and in particular how to scale the associated computational resources for JupyterHub users. These experiments will also relate to the BRC Program's current work to deploy a JupyterHub server that can "spawn" jobs into the campus's Savio HPC cluster <https://wikihub.berkeley.edu/research-it.berkeley.edu/brc/hpc>. This reading group meeting will be a discussion among interested parties about what sort of experiments we might conduct, who is interested in participating, and more generally, how to best explore and leverage these ongoing and upcoming threads of work to support UC Berkeley's research community. Prior to the meeting, participants are invited to: - Browse Jupyter documentation <http://jupyter.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html> to get a sense of the technology; and try Jupyter in your web browser <https://try.jupyter.org/>. - Read Andrea Zonca's April 2015 blog post <http://zonca.github.io/2015/04/jupyterhub-hpc.html> about the Jupyterhub RepoteSpawner plugin, which spawns IPython Notebook instances as jobs on a UCSD supercomputer ==== *Warren Hall access*: *For those who do not have keycard access to the building, please take the elevator to the second floor (stairwell door requires keycard). Before noon, let the receptionist know you're joining the Reading Group in 200C and s/he will let you in and show you the way. After noon, look for a sign next to the receptionist window to the right as you exit the elevators. We'll post a note with a phone number that you can call or text, and someone will come out to open the locked doors.* Looking forward to seeing you on Thursday of next week, ~Steve -- Steve Masover Research Information Technology (Research IT) http://research-it.berkeley.edu [email protected] 510-642-8488
