Command the Cloud

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  • Instructor:  Chris Geroux
  • Level: Intermediate
  • Duration: 3 hours
  • Helpers: TBD
  • Date: November 7, 2024 | 1:00 - 4:00 pm (Atlantic)
  • Prerequisite: Introduction to the Cloud or similar experience creating virtual machines in an Openstack cloud.
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COURSE DESCRIPTION

In ‘Introduction to Cloud’ we used the OpenStack web interface to create our first virtual machine. With this web interface many common tasks can be performed however, some important tasks can not be completed using only the web interface instead a command line interface (CLI) is needed. The CLI also allows access to some additional and very useful tasks such as downloading virtual machine images and provides access to information not shown in the web interface. In this workshop we will show how to setup and use the OpenStack CLI and perform some common tasks when managing virtual machines.

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Meet your teaching team

Chris Geroux

Instructor

Research Consultant
Ph.D. Astrophysics, Saint Mary’s University

Chris has been working in HPC since 2005 and joined ACENET in 2015. He is based at Dalhousie University and has a focus on cloud. For his PhD he developed a C++ code to model stellar convection using the OpenMPI framework for parallelisim. He also was an associate research fellow at the University of Exeter. Since joining ACENET Chris is been involved in developing the national cloud documentation and is a member of the cloud national team.

Sarah Clarke

Host

Digital Training Specialist
MSc Computational Chemistry, Dalhousie University

Sarah, based in Nova Scotia, joined ACENET in 2023. She has a range of teaching experience and held regular teaching assistant positions. Passionate about scientific literacy, Sarah has developed teaching materials and taught programming and robotics to youth in St. John's. She has also led professional development workshops for teachers, focusing on digital skills. For her MSc in Computational Chemistry research, she focused on interfacing crystal structure prediction methods.