July Community Conversation

This Tuesday is our monthly ColdFront Community Conversations meeting. No set agenda so please bring your ideas, topics, and demos of how you use ColdFront. Many in last month's meeting expressed interest in a working meeting where decisions are made on how to move forward with a cohesive storage plug-in that can be used by many as a framework for more vendor specific tools. We're happy to continue that conversation tomorrow. Register for the Zoom link and we hope to see you there!

This meeting covered deployment patterns, collaboration, and architectural discussions for ColdFront storage plugins and dashboarding.

🧪 Poll Insights

4:00 – ColdFront deployment trends and OS, DB, Python preferences.

7:00 – No formal agenda, call for community demos.

🧩 Storage Plugin Strategy

11:30 – Portable plugin architecture using base libraries + shims.
16:00 – Vast and TrueNAS API-based abstraction challenges.

💾 Storage Use Cases

30:00 – Permissions, quotas, and usage monitoring.

📊 Visualization Enhancements

50:00 – XDMod + Slurm data visualized via D3/Plotly.

🏷️ Metadata Mapping

1:08:00 – Hierarchical department and school-level tagging.

🔒 Enforcement Automation

1:20:00 – Allocation limits trigger deactivations and GPU disablement.

🔚 Community Collaboration

1:35:00 – BoF at PEARC and open call for dev contributions.