Jason is a young professional in the HPC industry passionate about developing the next generation of lean, mean, open source supercomputing machines. By day, he works at Canonical as their resident HPC engineer making Ubuntu better for supercomputing, and by night he leads the Ubuntu HPC community team as one of its “Not so Ancient Elders.” He is focused on addressing current and future challenges facing the HPC industry such as the convergence of cloud and HPC systems, the impending end of Moore’s Law, and supporting research software engineer workflows. In his free time, he likes to work on several of his open source projects, organizze open source community conferences such as the Ubuntu Summit, and travel to new places to teach others about how great HPC and supercomputing is. Recently he’s started learning the Crystal programming language out of personal interest for its potential applications inside HPC environments. Why Crystal specifically? Well… he loves OOP programming!

Presentations

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Charmed HPC on OpenStack Sunbeam

In this talk, you will learn how to use Sunbeam – a cloud-native OpenStack powered by Kubernetes – and Charmed HPC to streamline the deployment and management of modern HPC clusters. You will learn how to use Sunbeam to set up OpenStack, and how to dpeloy Charmed HPC on top of OpenStack. Lastly, you will learn how to set up Kubernetes next to your HPC system to provide services such as identity management and observability metrics.

Setting up a modern HPC system does not need to be a dark and stormy process - it can be as clear as day with Sunbeam!

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UbuCon Introduction

Kickoff this year's UbuCon @ SCaLE 22x and layout the events for the day.

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Deploy your own converged supercomputing system within an hour (and 30 minutes!)

In this interactive workshop, we will peel back the buzzwords and fancy diagrams to get hands-on experience with deploying our own converged HPC system on your laptop. Using several free and open source tools, along with some code by the Ubuntu HPC community team we will deploy our own minified test cluster.

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Accelerate your time to science with Ubuntu and Open Ondemand

In this talk, you will learn about the Ubuntu HPC community team’s effort to bridge that skill gap and accelerate users’ time to science on Ubuntu. Like how Ubuntu revolutionised the Linux desktop world in 2004, the Ubuntu HPC community team is aiming to revolutionise HPC by developing an open source supercomputing infrastructure stack that anyone can freely use.

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