Month: October 2016

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SSUG at SC’16

Join the Spectrum Scale user group for a meeting at this year’s Supercomputing conference.

Date: Sunday, November 13th 2016

Location: Grand Ballroom Salon F, Salt Lake City Downtown Marriott, 75 SW Temple Street, Salt Lake City UT 84101 (Reception Following: Salon E)

Agenda:

12:30-12:40 Welcome
12:40-12:50 Overview
12:50-13:35 The latest in IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS
13:55-14:20 NASA Goddard: Big Data in HPC
14:20-14:45 Nuance: Tiering to Object Storage
14:45-15:15 – Break –
15:15-15:30 Sponsor Talk: TOPIC TBD (NetApp)
13:35-13:55 Virginia Tech ARC: SANDisk IF150 (IBM DeepFlash 150)
15:30-15:50 NASA Goddard: Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB
15:50-16:35 Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL
16:35-17:20 News from IBM Research
17:20-17:30 Closing

[Meeting followed by cocktail reception sponsored by NetApp]

Registration Web Site:

https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?openform&seminar=357M7UES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=000001CP&S_OFF_CD=10001235

IBM summary page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/supercomputing/index.html

Questions? Comments? Please let us know. We hope to see many of you next month.

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Meet the Devs Cloud Workshop @Birmingham, UK

Meet the Devs returned this October with a trip to University of Birmingham (OK, so I didn’t have to travel very far…).

This time, we focussed the day as a workshop on cloud and Spectrum Scale, Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research, Master Inventor, Senior Research Scientist) was in the UK speaking at another event and we were lucky enough to catch him for a meet the devs. We were also joined by John Lewars (IBM, STSM) who flew in pretty much for the day, and also MTD usuals, Ulf Troppens and Dan Kidger.

For those not familiar with Dean, he worked on pNFS, AFM and the OpenStack integration when they were all part of IBM Research. I’ve been lucky enough to know Dean for a couple of years and he was extremely helpful with getting the right contacts when I was developing CLIMB (www.climb.ac.uk) a few years back and using Spectrum Scale as an infrastructure.

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