Open Source Program Offices in Research Universities

CHPC National Conference 2022

”Democratisation of Cyber-Infrastructure for Sustainable Development”

December 2, 2022

Carlos Maltzahn, UC Santa Cruz

Carlos Maltzahn

Adjunct Professor, Step 5, �Computer Science & Engineering, UC Santa Cruz

Founder & Director, Open Source Program Office UC Santa Cruz (ospo.ucsc.edu)

Founder & Director, Center for Research in Open Source Software (cross.ucsc.edu)

Co-Founder & Director, UCSC Systems Research Laboratory (SRL)

1999-2004: Performance Engineer, Netapp

Advising 5 Ph.D. students

Graduated 9 Ph.D. students, 12 M.S. students

people.ucsc.edu/carlosm

Current Research:

• Programmable Storage Systems (programmability.us)
• Arrow-native Storage (bit.ly/skyhookdm)
• Big Data Storage & Processing
• Scalable Data Management
• Distributed Systems Performance Management
• Practical Reproducibility� (getpopper.io, shrinkwrap)

Past Research:

• Team processes in repositories [IJICIS’92]
• Network Intermediaries [SIGMETRICS’97]
• Automatic Behavioral Modeling of HDDs [MSST’14]
• Data Management Games [GamifIR’14]

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Outline

Industry values organizations who know how to engage with open source

$100+ billion valuation of open source companies

• Commercial Open Source Index (COSSI) tracks 50 companies
• Would not exist without open source
• Revenue of at least $100M/year
• Total of $14 billion in VC funding raised
• Total of 76,000+ employees
• Total est. valuation: $237 billion
• Total exit value so far: $90 billion

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bit.ly/coss-index

Linux Foundation

• $10 million new funding into OpenSSF
• White House meets with OpenSSF representatives recently for 7 hours

84 companies and counting �critically depend on open source ecosystems�$13.4 trillion total market cap�

Source: Todogroup.org

Open Source Program Office

• Track and manage relationships with open source ecosystem
• OSPO umbrella organization: Todogroup.org

Source: Todogroup.org

But what about universities?

UC’s Mission

We teach

We do research

We provide public service

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“UC disseminates research results and translates scientific discoveries into practical knowledge and technological innovations that benefit California and the nation.”

Six� universities to develop playbooks for OSPOs

ospo.ucsc.edu

Common gaps in universities

Amplify research impact �via open source

Simplify reproducibility in computational research

Reproducible research results

Research results

Case Study: �Skyhook

Storage Object

Host

Storage Server

Read/Write

Efficient and composable scientific data management in storage and network layers

Case Study: �Skyhook

Storage Object

Host

Storage Server

Read/Write

• Working with Argonne
• Leveraging Thallium
• Use case: particle data

Case Study: �Skyhook

Storage Object

Host

Read/Write

• Working with Seagate
• Leveraging Kinetic
• Use case: Human Cell Atlas

Case Study: �Skyhook

Storage Object

Host

Read/Write

• Working with Sandia
• Leveraging FAODEL
• Use case: particle data

Case Study: �Skyhook

Case Study: �Skyhook

Graphic from Heath Arensen’s keynote at CROSS Symposium ’20

Case Study: �Skyhook

• Scoping Skyhook community (NSF funded)
• Raising funding for Research Software Engineering staff
• Skyhook maintainer
• Reproducibility artifact builder
• Collaboration with Apache Arrow community
• Industry funding via open source gift letters

Thank You!

ospo.ucsc.edu

acm-rep.github.io

Carlos Maltzahn carlosm@ucsc.edu

people.ucsc.edu/carlosm