27
Jun

ARCOS Symposium 2024

Bringing together the Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) community and others in the research sector to share use cases and expertise and advance the ARCOS project
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About the Event

The ARCOS Symposium aims to bring those involved in the Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) and other interested parties together to facilitate community building, discuss group use cases in greater detail, and learn about the solutions and services being implemented.

The ARDC invites you to participate in these discussions and help us develop national capabilities in building reproducible and scalable digital research outputs using containers and Kubernetes.

Program and Highlights

Join us for a one-day event in person or online for presentations, discussions and professional networking, and help us shape the future of the ARCOS community. Talks will cover:

  • Kubernetes cluster lifecycle management using the ClusterAPI
  • research project talks on Kubernetes implementation
  • containers use cases on HPC infrastructure
  • industry or CNCF topics.

Participants will have opportunities to:

  • hear from research groups and organisations across Australia and internationally on how they are using containers and Kubernetes
  • meet experts and make new connections, and join the community of people who are working in containers and Kubernetes for research
  • contribute to the design of new services, and help shape community activities like training and expertise sharing.
Time (AEST)Item
09:30Welcome, Acknowledgments of Country, and housekeeping
09:40Keynote: ARCOS Overview and Vision
Dr Paul Coddington, Associate Director, Nectar Research Cloud, ARDC
09:55Self introduction / icebreaker
10:25Morning tea
10:45CNCF talk: Intro to the CNCF Batch Working Group
Alex Scammon, Head of Open Source Engineering, G-Research
11:25Talk: Australian Imaging Service (AIS) – A Case Study
Dean Taylor, Senior DevOps Systems Engineer, AIS
12:15Lunch
13:15Talk: Improvements in Nectar Kubernetes Service – Past, Present, Future
Jake Yip, Technical Lead, Nectar, ARDC
14:15Focus Group: Containers and Kubernetes in Australian Research – Building a Community for the Future
Dr Aleem Uddin, Virtualisation Specialist, ARDC
14:55Afternoon tea
15:15Project talk: Use of Containers in Biocommons/Pawsey (SHPC and Singularity/Apptainer)
Dr Sarah Beecroft, Bioinformatics Applications Specialist, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
15:55Closing

Who Should Attend

  • Current ARCOS members 
  • Anyone within the Australian research sector developing Kubernetes and container solutions
  • Research sector professionals working on cloud computing, high-performance compute (HPC), data analytics or informatics, and research software

Recording and Format

This event will be recorded. The recording will be provided to all registrants and published online.

As this session is hybrid, the audience will have ample opportunity to participate in in-person discussions and professional networking.

About ARCOS

Australian Research Container Orchestration Service (ARCOS) is a community driven by various national institutions with the aim of establishing a national Kubernetes service and promoting use of containers in research.

The ARCOS Community Group and the ARCOS Technical Working Group meet quarterly via online conferencing. If you are based in Australia and are interested in or actively working on solutions in this space, we strongly encourage you to join the community.

Do you have questions about this event? Contact us.

Date

27 June 2024

Time

9 am to 5 pm (AEST)

Type

Symposium

Location

Room 606, Building F, Monash University, 900 Dandenong Road, Caulfield East, VIC 3145 | Online

Run by

ARDC

Cost

Free