Visit us at SC25!
Are you attending the international supercomputing (SC25) conference in St. Louis? ColdFront information will be available throughout the week in several locations.
2025
December Community Conversation
This month's meeting will held on Tuesday, December 9, 2025 at 11:30am ET. Monthly community meetings are convened over Zoom to discuss topics of interest. Usually there are no planned agendas and community members bring ideas and questions to share.
November Community Conversation
This month's meeting was held Wednesday, November 12, 2025 at 12:00pm ET.
October Community Conversation
This month's meeting was held on Tuesday, October 14, 2025 at 11:30am ET. Monthly community meetings are convened over Zoom to discuss topics of interest. Usually there are no planned agendas and community members bring ideas and questions to share.
ColdFront Community Working Groups
Through the next year, we will be working on tasks in the NSF POSE phase I project that will research and begin planning things like governance models and sustainability for the ColdFront project. However, we do not wish to delay development progress nor discourage participation from the community.
ColdFront Project Awarded NSF POSE Funding
We're pleased to announce the successful awarding of funding for ColdFront in the NSF Pathways to Open Source Ecosystems (POSE) program! The project team consists of the University at Buffalo Center for Computational Research, Harvard University, and Indiana University.
September Community Conversation
This month's meeting was Tuesday, September 9, 2025 at 11:30am ET. Monthly community meetings are convened over Zoom to discuss topics of interest. Usually there are no planned agendas and community members bring ideas and questions to share. This month we do have a big announcement and we'll be working on solidifying initial working groups.
August Community Conversation
This month's meeting was Tuesday, August 12, 2025. Monthly community meetings are convened over Zoom to discuss topics of interest. Usually there are no planned agendas and community members bring ideas and questions to share.
ColdFront BoF at PEARC'25
Recently, staff from UB CCR have been collaborating with Harvard FAS RC, Indiana University (IU), and Southern Methodist University (SMU) to begin the process of creating an open-source ecosystem around ColdFront. In this BoF, attendees will have an opportunity to hear about these developments and provide feedback on our plans.
July Community Conversation
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. View this post to watch the recording or read a recap of the meeting.