Month: June 2017

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May 2017 UK User Group Report

OK, OK, its been a while and I apologise for the delay in getting this written up (sorry Claire!), so many things have got in the way in my real job!

So the UK meeting this year saw a move from London to Manchester, but still saw a strong following of Spectrum Scale UGers attending. First off, lets talk about the elephant, or rather pillar in the room…. yes the conference venue had THE largest concrete pillars in the space … something to do with it once being a 1970’s office block so I’m told. But we managed, and DDN’s Vic even had some fun with laser pointers and the mirrors mounted on the pillars. Continue reading “May 2017 UK User Group Report”

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Spectrum Scale User Group (Australia) Meeting – Perth August 2017

Location: Perth, WA | 12 Burvill Court, The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre
Thursday, August 3rd, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (WST)
Friday, August 4th, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (WST) (Meet the Teams)

Registrations for this event are open https://goo.gl/UBofDZ

Please register and mark it in your calendar!

Many thanks to IBM for supporting this event in Perth.

IBM representatives will be at the meeting to cover various topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged. As is the culture of the group, no marketing or sales pitches!

The agenda is currently being finalised, but included in the day will be technical presentations by Pawsey on the use of Spectrum Scale for Conductor and from IBM on Hadoop on Spectrum Scale, plus and a general update on Scale, and hopefully other presentations on Data Analytics and Machine Intelligence on Scale.
Please find all the details on the day in the Eventbrite event link above.

There will be networking opportunities to meet with your Australian colleagues. The second day is set aside to allow you to meet with the Pawsey teams in Supercomputing, Data, and Visualisation.

If you have any requests for finer detail on areas you wish to be covered or if you indeed wish to present, please either post to the Spectrum Scale mailing list or feel contact me at gpfsugaus@gmail.com or at my organisation email http://www.pawsey.org.au/about/pawsey-supercomputing-staff-contacts-list/

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Spectrum Scale and Spectrum LSF User Meeting at ISC 2017

There is an IBM organized joint IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum LSF User Meeting at ISC 2017. Agenda and spirit are similar to user group organized events. The the agenda includes user stories, updates on IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum LSF, and access to IBM experts and your peers.

Please join us!

To attend, please email Fabienne.Wegener at de.ibm.com so we can have an accurate count of attendees.

Monday June 19, 2016 – 12:00-14:30 – Conference Room Konstant

12:00-12:10  [10 min]  Opening
12:10-12:25  [15 min]  Spectrum Scale Support for Docker – Olaf Weiser (IBM)
12:25-13:05  [40 min]  IBM Spectrum LSF family update – Bill McMillan (IBM)
13:05-13:25  [20 min]  Driving Operational Efficiencies with the IBM Spectrum LSF & Ellexus Mistral – Dr. Rosemary Francis (Ellexus)
13:25-13:40 [15 min] Pawsey Site Report – Chris Schlipalius (Pawsey)
13:40-13:55  [15 min]  IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS) Update – John Sing (IBM)
13:55-14:20  [25 min]  IBM Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL – Sven Oehme (IBM)
14:20-14:30  [10 min]  Question & Answers

Looking forward to seeing you there!