All the talks from the SC15 User Group meeting in Austin, TX are now online. Download them from the Presentations page.
Spectrum Scale UG @Computing Insight UK Agenda available
The Spectrum Scale user group will be meeting at Computing Insight UK (formerly MEW) in December 2015 at the Ricoh Arena, Coventry. The agenda is now available:
- 10:00 Welcome & Introductions (Simon Thompson, GPFS UG Chair & Claire O’Toole, GPFS UG Secretary
- 10:05 – Introducing Spectrum Scale 4.2 (Patrick Byrne, Cameron McAllister & Sarfraz Nadeem, IBM UK labs)
- GUI demo
- New features – compression and QoS
- Where we are heading next with 4.2.1 onwards … problem determination focus
- 11:00 – How to ruin a perfectly good GPFS file system (Vic Cornell, DDN)
- 11:20 – The Unique Technical Benefits of an Engineered Solution for GPFS (Chris Weeden, Seagate)
- 11:40 – Networking, Discussion & Feedback
- 12:00 – Finish
Please note you must be registered for CIUK to attend this meeting.
SC15 Spectrum Scale User Group Exit Poll
Meet the Devs – Edinburgh
The fourth and final instalment of the 2015 UK Spectrum Scale User Group “Meet the Devs” series recently took place in Edinburgh, and I had the privilege of helping Simon Thompson and Joe Taylor lead the discussions.
Not only was this my first “Meet the Devs” meeting, but it was also my first time spending any real time in Edinburgh (as is the case with most places I have visited lately). Joe and I took the first flight out of Manchester the morning of the event, and after a short taxi ride, we were at the University of Edinburgh.
As Simon mentioned, we had a mixed group of attendees – some new faces and some familiar faces. Some travelled a very short distance and one of the attendees flew in from Germany to meet and share ideas with us.