I was recently at SC13 and attended a number of Python HPC tutorials, Data Management and HPC systems engineering and administration BOF’s.
This year’s SC13 much calmer than previous years, but I did pick up a few new tools during the conference. However I was pretty surprised that there is a real lack of devops, sysadmins etc… in the this space.
I was also surprised at how things like salt and ansible are being adopted in this space.