2023 MOC Alliance Workshop

The is a Red Hat Research partner event. Please visit the 2023 MOC Alliance event page for the latest information.

The MOC Alliance provides a structure for a set of interrelated projects that have grown up around the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and Massachusetts Green High Performance Computing Center (MGHPCC).  These projects include production cloud services (NERC, NESE, OSN) for domain researchers that are operated and facilitated by university research IT, a national testbed for cloud research (OCT), projects to enable scientific and medical researchers (Biogrids, ChRiS), projects to engage the open source (OI labs, Operate First) and systems research (Red Hat Collaboratory, i-Scale) communities.

The workshop will bring together our unique community of Research IT, researchers, users, and industry to celebrate what has been accomplished and help define the MOC Alliance strategy moving forward. In addition, it will showcase how the Alliance is so much more than the sum of its parts. Sessions will cover research that was motivated by experience with a real cloud, the impact research has already had on upstream open source projects, and how some of these projects are starting to impact services that are part of the Alliance.  

A conference schedule, registration form, and travel details can be found below. This page will be updated with new details as we get closer to the event, so make sure to check back for exciting announcements!

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Schedule:

Monday, March 20

• 8 am – 9 am: Check-in, Breakfast & Networking
• 9 am – 10:30 am: Welcome and MOC-A Updates
  • Introductory Remarks – Gloria Waters, Boston University
  • Future of MOC Alliance – Orran Krieger, Boston University
  • MOC Alliance History – Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University
  • MGHPCC – John Goodhue, MGHPCC
  • OCT – Mike Zink, UMass Amherst
  • NERC & Other Services – Wayne Gilmore, Boston University & Scott Yockel, Harvard University
  • Colosseum – Abhimanyu Gosain, Northeastern University
  • Workshop Overview – Orran Krieger, Boston University
• 10:30 am – 11 am: Break & Networking 
• 11 am -11:35 am: Keynote
  • Pat Larkin, Mass Tech Collaborative 
• 11:35 am – 1:15 pm: Micro-talks I
  • Workforce Development – Sarah Coghlan, Red Hat & Damien Eversmann, Red Hat
  • OPE/ Interactive Books – Jonathan Appavoo, Boston University & Danni Shi, Red Hat
  • ESI Research & Development – Apoorve Mohan, IBM & Tzu-Mainn Chen, Red Hat
  • AI for Cloud Ops – Ayse Coskun, Boston University & Heidi Dempsey, Red Hat
  • ChRIS – Máirín (Mo) Duffy, Red Hat & Rudolph Pienaar, Boston Children’s Hospital, Harvard Medical School
  • UKL – Larry Woodman, Red Hat & Eric Munson, Boston University
  • LSVD/ D4N – Matt Benjamin, Red Hat; Vincent Hsu, IBM; Amin Mosayyebzadeh, Boston University
  • Hypervisor Fuzzing – Manuel Egele, Boston University & Bandan Das, Red Hat
  • Kernel Tuning with Machine Learning – Sanjay Arora, Red Hat & Han Dong, Boston University
  • Q&A Session
• 1:15 pm – 2:45 pm: Lunch & Poster Session
• 2:45 pm – 3:20 pm: Keynote
  • Jon Stumpf, Two Sigma
• 3:20 pm – 3:55 pm: Keynote
  • Hugh Brock, Red Hat
• 3:55 pm – 4:15 pm: Break & Networking
• 4:15 pm – 5:15 pm: Keynote
  • Will Tomlinson, SAIL
• 5:15 pm – 5:30 pm: Closing Remarks 

Tuesday, March 21

• 8 am – 9 am: Breakfast & Networking 
• 9 am – 9:45 am: Welcome Remarks
  • John Byers, Boston University & David Luzzi, Northeastern University; Orran Krieger, Boston University & Peter Desnoyers, Northeastern University 
• 9:45 am – 10:30 am: Keynotes
  • Hugh Brock, Red Hat & Larry Rudolph, Two Sigma
• 10:30 am – 10:45 am: Break and Networking
• 10:45 am – 11:45 am: IUCRC Presentation
  • Mohan Kumar, National Science Foundation
• 11:45 am – 1:15 pm: Lunch & Poster Session
• 1:15 pm – 3 pm: IUCRC Proposals & Deep Dives
  • FPGA Tutorial – Suranga Handagala
  • NERC Demonstration – Milson Munakami 
• 3 pm – 3:15 pm: Break & Networking
• 3:15 pm – 5 pm: IUCRC Proposals & Deep Dives
  • OpenDP Tutorial – Salil Vadhan, Harvard University
• 5 pm –  6:30 pm: Poster Session
• 6:30 pm – 8 pm: Reception

Location and Travel:

Boston University George Sherman Union (2nd floor ballroom)
775 Commonwealth Ave
Boston, MA 02215

Accessible by the MBTA Green Line – “B” Line to Boston College, get off at Boston University Central.

Paid parking available at 766 Commonwealth Ave.