NeSI and open source

NeSI is involved in many open source software pages, particularly those which relate to NeSI's HPC infrastructure and Tuakiri, the New Zealand Access Federation.

Here is an overview of the team's contributions:

Jordi Blasco, Bart Verleye and Peter Maxwell have been involved in a project to migrate all applications on NeSI's Pan cluster to easybuild.  As part of the process, the team have made a number of modifications to the system and will be contributing those improvements upstream.

Aaron Hicks is actively involved in the Puppet community. This includes supporting community modules for Apache httpd, MySQL, and Ruby, as well as providing 10 self-published modules for for the benefit of the community.

Vladimir Mencl has been actively collaborating with members the Australian Access Federation to develop a localised instance of the AAF Federation Registry. Improvements made to that code base have been pushed upstream. This also includes supporting the associated projects AAF Virtual Home and AAF Groups.

Also related to authentication, Michael Keller has been working with the NCSA team from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to contribute to OAuth for MyProxy.

NeSI relies on and supports community-built, open source software where it can. As well as code contributions, this has also including the Open Science award at the New Zealand Open Source Awards for 2012. We look forward to helping further where we can.