Storage Scale User Group

Spectrum Scale User Group, Perth Australia
2017-08-03 - 2017-08-04 | TX

Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group main UK meeting
2017-05-09 - 2017-05-10 | Macdonald Manchester Hotel, London Road, Manchester, M1 2PG, United Kingdom
UK May 2017 User Group: Registration

We’re flattered that we’ve seen some advertising us as the Global Spectrum Scale user group event, and its great that we’re doing well. This year’s event will be bigger than ever with space for up to 200 attendees, we’ve had to move out of IBM Client Centre in South Bank and are heading north to Manchester!
The UK Spring user group will take place over two days on 9th and 10th May 2017 at the Macdonald Manchester Hotel, Manchester. We’d like to thank IBM and our sponsors for supporting the event and the evening networking/social event on the evening of 9th May 2017.
As usual, we will have a packed agenda with speakers from the IBM development teams, user talks as well as technical talks from our sponsors.
The hotel where the event is taking place has reserved a limited number of rooms for the night before the event (8th May) and the night of the event (9th May). The rates are £115 B&B and £145 B&B per room per night respectively and if anyone wishes to book they can call the hotel 0344 879 9088 and quote code OCFP090517 to benefit from these rates. Please ensure you have confirmed your ticket via the registration page before booking your hotel room.
The agenda for the day is a bit further down the page and we are looking for users to do a short presentation on their use of Spectrum Scale/GPFS. Please contact us if you’d like to volunteer. These are often the most valuable talks of the event so please don’t be shy!
Sponsors
We’d very much like to thank the following sponsors for supporting the user group meeting by providing funding to support the evening social event:

ArcaStream

DDN

Ellexus

Lenovo

IBM

Mellanox

OCF

Seagate

Media Sponsor:

Agenda
Day 1 – 9th May 2017

09:00 – 10:00
Registration & Networking

10:00 – 10:30
Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM)

10:30 – 11:20
Spectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM)

11:20 – 11:40
ESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM)

11:40 – 12:00
Sponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch & Networking

13:00 – 13:20
Customer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC)

13:20 – 13:40
Sponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell

13:40 – 14:30
Spectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM)

14:30 – 14:50
Licensing – Carl Zetie (IBM)

14:50 – 15:20
Coffee and Networking

15:20 – 15:40
Sponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans

15:40 – 16:30
Problem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM)

16:30 – 17:20
Best Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM)

17:50 – 18:00
Wrap up

18:00
Finish

19:00
Evening Social Event, drinks and food – Manchester Museum of Science and Industry

Day 2 – 10th May 2017

08:30 – 09:00
Coffee and Networking

09:00 – 10:00
Parallel Breakout/workshop session 1

Integration with Spectrum Protect for Backup – Fabian Kulhl (IBM)
Docker Support / Update on metadata sizing – Olaf Weiser (IBM), Indulis Bernsteins (IBM)
CES Authentication / Spectrum Scale Security (Meet the Devs) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)

10:00 – 11:00
Parallel Breakout/workshop session 2

Introduction to AFM and Use Cases – Nils Haustein (IBM)
Object, SwiftHLM and OpenStack (cloud) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM), Simon Lorenz (IBM)
GUI and REST API (Meet the Devs) – Alexander Wolf (IBM)

11:00 – 12:00
Parallel Breakout/workshop session 3

Automation of Storage Services – Nils Haustein (IBM)
Container and Virtualisation support (Cloud) – John Lewars (IBM)
HDFS Support (Meet the Devs) – Piyush Chaudrhary (IBM)

12:00 – 13:00
Lunch & Networking

13:00 – 13:20
Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins

13:20 – 13:40
Customer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF)

13:40 – 14:00
Sponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee

14:00 – 14:20
Customer Talk – TBC

14:20 – 14:50
Coffee and Networking

14:50 – 16:00
Research Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM)

16:00 – 16:30
Wrap-up and feedback – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM)

16:30
Finish

Registration
To register for this year’s event, please use our EventBrite event page at:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scalegpfs-user-group-spring-2017-tickets-32113696932
Registration is now open.
Please note that we are currently limiting registrations to 3 per organisation to ensure as many organisations as possible are able to attend and places are strictly limited due to room capacity. We will be operating a wait list, so if you can’t get a ticket now, then we’ll hold details in case they become available nearer the date.
We look forward to seeing you in May!

Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting, Manchester, UK (May)
DAY 1

Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG), Michael Daubman (IBM)
Spectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM)
ESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM)
Sponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis
Customer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC)
Sponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell
Spectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM)
Licensing – Carl Zetie (IBM)
Sponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans
Problem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM)
Best Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM)

DAY 2

Integration with Spectrum Protect for Backup – Fabian Kulhl (IBM), Additional Material
Docker Support / Update on metadata sizing – Olaf Weiser (IBM), Indulis Bernsteins (IBM)
CES Authentication / Spectrum Scale Security (Meet the Devs) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)
Introduction to AFM and Use Cases – Nils Haustein (IBM)
Object, SwiftHLM and OpenStack (cloud) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM), Simon Lorenz (IBM)
GUI and REST API (Meet the Devs) – Alexander Wolf (IBM)
Automation of Storage Services – Nils Haustein (IBM)
Container and Virtualisation support (Cloud) – John Lewars (IBM)
HDFS Support (Meet the Devs) – Piyush Chaudrhary (IBM)
Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins
Customer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF)
Sponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee, Additional Material
Customer Talk – Scale out storage systems to support Research and Cloud – Simon Thompson (University of Birmingham)
Research Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM)

Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group Australia meeting
2017-04-27 | TX

Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group main USA meeting
2017-04-04 - 2017-04-05 | TX

SSUG @CIUK 2016
2016-12-14 | Manchester Central, Windmill St, Manchester, M2 3GX, United Kingdom

SSUG @SC16 Salt Lake City
2016-11-13 | TX
User Group @SC16, Salt Lake City, USA, November 13th 2016

Opening Talk (Bob Oesterlin)
The latest in IBM Spectrum Scale (Scott Fadden, IBM)
Licensing Update (Doug O’Flaherty, IBM)
ESS Updates (Steve Duersch, IBM)
NASA NCCS Goddard: Big Data in HPC (Carrie Spear, Nasa)
Nuance: Tiering to Object Storage (Bob Oesterlin, Nuance)
Sponsor Talk (NetApp): IBM DCS Storage: The Ideal Building Block for Flexible Spectrum Scale (Matt Forney, Ennovar)
Virginia Tech ARC: SANDisk IF150 (Brian Marshall, Virgina Tech ARC)
NASA NCCS Goddard: Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB, (Aaron Knister, NASA Goddard)
Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL, (Sarp Oral, ORNL, Gautam Shah, IBM)
News from IBM Research (Sven Oehme, Dean Hildebrand, IBM)

SSUG Meet the Devs (Cloud)
2016-10-20 | University of Birmingham, IT Services, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TT, United Kingdom

Australian User Group
2016-10-14 | Pullman Hotel Melbourne, 65 Queens Road, Albert Park, Melbourne, 3004, Australia

SSUG Main UK meeting 2016
2016-05-17 - 2016-05-18 | IBM South Bank, 76/78 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PZ, United Kingdom
User Group 13, IBM South Bank, London, UK

Zip containing all talks
Opening & Welcome – Simon Thompson & Claire O’Toole
Keynote talk – Doris Conti (no slides)
4.2 Roadmap & 2016 Priorities, Ulf Troppens
Deep Dive – 4.2 GUI & Live Demo, Markus Rohwedder (no slides)
Sponsor Talk 1 – Seagate: Using Spectrum Scale in the IoT World, Ray Coetzee
Sponsor Talk 2 – ArcaStream: Python API & Demo, Jez Tucker
User Talk 2 – Milk flows freely from London to Cardiff with AFM, Dave Goodbourn, Milk Visual Effects
Sponsor Talk 3 – NetApp: HPC – How NetApp plays in this world, Molinder Toor
User Talk 1 – NCAR’s Globally Accessible Data Environment, Pamela Gillman, NCAR
Deep Dive – Hadoop Integration, Piyush Chaudhry
Sponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: Accelerating storage functions in a co-design network, Darren Harkins
Technical Deep Dive – Tiering to the Cloud / MC Store, Robert Basham
Technical Deep Dive – Problem Determination Enhancements, Mathias Dietz
Licensing, David Cremise
Sponsor Talk 5 – OCF: Scale out NAS for the masses, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow
Spectrum Scale ILM & Spectrum Archive, Nils Haustein (introductory)
Metadata sizing / tuning, Indulis Bernsteins, Madhav Ponamgi (advanced)
AFM Introduction and use cases, Madhav Ponamgi (introductory)
Spectrum Protect Integration & Best Practices, Nils Haustein (Backup and HSM) (advanced)
Encryption / Compression, Olaf Weiser, Yoann Lechevallier (introductory)
Spectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale, Nils Haustein (advanced)
A few words from IBM (room survey)
Sponsor Talk 6 – DDN: Adventures in AFM, Vic Cornell
Deep Dive – OpenStack Integration, Gauging Tapase
Sponsor Talk 7 – IBM: Life Sciences, Frank Lee
Sponsor Talk 8 – Lenovo, Michael Hennecke
look into the future by IBM Research, Sven Oehme

IBM Event: Spectrum Scale Expert Workshop (in German)
2016-05-09 - 2016-05-10 | IBM Client Center Ehningen, IBM-Allee 1, Ehningen, 71139, Germany

IBM Event: Introduction to Spectrum Scale
2016-05-08 10:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | IBM Client Center Ehningen, IBM-Allee 1, Ehningen, 71139, Germany

Meet the devs - Oxford
2016-02-24 | Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom

SPXXL Event: SPXXL GPFS Workshop
2016-02-17 | Leibniz Supercomputing Center, der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Boltzmannstraße 1, Garching, 85748, Germany

GPFS User Group @CIUK 2015
2015-12-08 | Ricoh Arena, Judds Lane, Longford, Coventry, CV6 6AQ, United Kingdom
GPFSUG@CIUK, Coventry, UK

IBM Spectrum Scale 4.2 – Patrick Byrne, Cameron McAllister, IBM
How to Ruin a Perfectly Good GPFS file system – Vic Cornell, DDN
The Unique Technical Benefits of an Engineered Solution for GPFS – Marc Roskow, Seagate

Meet the Devs - Edinburgh
2015-10-23 | TX

First USA Meet the Devs
2015-10-07 | TX

Meet the Devs - Warwick
2015-07-29 | IBM Warwick, Birmingham Road, Warwick, Warwickshire, CV34 5AH, United Kingdom

Meet the Devs - Manchester Labs
2015-05-28 | IBM Manchester Labs, Maybrook House, 40 Blackfriars Street, Manchester, M3 2EG, United Kingdom

GPFS User Group main meeting 2015
2015-05-20 | York Race Course, Tadcaster Road, York, YO23 1EX, United Kingdom
User Group 11, York, UK

User Group Presentation – UG Board
4.1.1 Roadmap / High-level futures / Failure Events – Scott Fadden, IBM Technical Marketing
Monitoring IBM Spectrum Scale using IBM Spectrum Control (VSC/TPC) – Christian Bolik, IBM Tivoli Storage Productivity Center Developer
User Experience from University of Birmingham/CLIMB – Simon Thompson, C&IT Specialist – Research Computing University of Birmingham
User Experience from National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC) – Jason Hick
AFM & Async DR Use Cases – Shankar Balasubramanian, IBM Software Development
mmbackup + TSM Integration – Stefan Bender, IBM Software Development
IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) performance update, protocol performance and sizing – Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research

Meet the Devs - London
2015-02-18 | IBM South Bank, 76/78 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PZ, United Kingdom

IBM User group Meeting at SC14
2014-11-16 | TX
GPFS @SC’14, New Orleans, Louisiana

CLIMB, OpenStack and Elastic Storage – Simon Thompson, Research Computing, University of Birmingham
The XSEDE Wide File System: XSEDE is a national network: eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery nEtwork, funded by the National Science Foundation.
McGill University DataSTAR: The McGill HPC Centre and the Guillimin GPFS Data Storage and Archival Environment (DataSTAR)
NCAR GPFS Monitoring Tools

GPFS User Group main meeting 2014
2014-04-29 | IBM South Bank, 76/78 Upper Ground, London, SE1 9PZ, United Kingdom
User Group 10, IBM South Bank

GPFS Performance Tuning – Sven Oehme, IBM Scalable Storage Research
Numascale – Robin Harker, Numascale

IBM User group meeting #SC13
2013-11-17 | TX
GPFS @SC’13, Denver, Colorado

GPFS What’s New – Scott Fadden, IBM Technical Marketing
GSS Update – Matt Drahzal, IBM
GPFS Experiences from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility (ALCF) – William (Bill) E. Allcock, ALCF Director of Operations
The GLADE Environment – Pamela Gillman, NCARManager, Data Analysis Services Group

GPFS User Group #8 April 2013
2013-04-24 | TX
GPFS User Group Meeting: 24th April 2013
Agenda
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and committee updates
Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary
11:05 GPFS FPO
Dinesh Subhraveti, IBM Almaden Research Labs
12:00 SAMBA 4.0 & CTDB 2.0
Michael Adams, SAMBA Development Team
13:00 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:45 GPFS OpenStack Integration
Dinesh Subhraveti, IBM Almaden Research Labs
14:15 SAMBA & GPFS Integration
Volker Lendecke, SAMBA Development Team
15:15 Refreshments break
15:30 GPFS Native RAID & LTFS
Jim Roche, IBM
16:00 Group discussion: Questions & Committee matters
Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson
16:05 Close

GPFS User Group #7 November 2012
2012-11-28 | TX
Group Meeting @ MEW: 28th November 2012
14:00 Introductions & Group Development
Claire Robson, GPFS User Group Secretary
14:15 GPFS Updates: A view from SC’12 & GPFS Native RAID
Jim Roche, IBM
15:00 Discussions and networking
15:30 Close

GPFS User Group #5 May 2012?
2012-05-16 | TX
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and committee updates
Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary
11:05 pNFS and GPFS
Dean Hildebrand, Research Staff Member – Storage Systems
IBM Almaden Research Center
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 SAN Volume Controller/V7000, Easy Tier and Real Time Compression
Barry Whyte, IBM Hursley Labs
14:30 WOS: Web Object Scalar
Vic Cornell, DDN
14:50 GPFS Metadata + SSDs
Andrew Dean, OCF
15:20 User experience of GPFS
Stefano Gorini, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
15:50 Stupid GPFS Tricks 2012
16:00 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson
16:20 Close

GPFS User Group #4 2012?
2012-03-14 | TX
GPFS User Group Meeting: 14th
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and review of group aims
Claire Robson, Group Secretary & Jez Tucker, Group Chair
11:10 GPFS 3.5 Update
Scott Fadden, IBM
11:40 Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 Update
Ian Hancock, IBM

12:10 Discussions
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 GPFS Environments at T-Systems Solutions for Research
Andreas Landhäußer, T-Systems Solutions for Research
14:00 Software: The new hardware. Concepts and benefits of vSAN
Boaz Palgi, ScaleIO
14:30 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
15:20 GPFS User Group Committee update
Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson
15:50 Conclusions, OCF
16:00 Close

GPFS User Group #3 September 2011
2011-09-15 | TX
Agenda
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and review of group aims, OCF
11:10 Future GPFS Developments (Beyond GPFS 3.4), Crispin Keable, IBM
12:10 Discussions
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 Building storage services on GPFS at the University of Edinburgh, Orlando Richards, Edinburgh
14:00 GPFS and back up features for TSM, Ian Wilkes, Storage Consultant
14:30 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
15:20 GPFS User Group Committee Development, Led by OCF
15:50 Conclusions, OCF
16:00 Close
For additional discussion points that you would like to raise, please send questions through to Claire Robson (crobson@ocf.co.uk) in advance of the meeting.

GPFS User Group #2 April 2011
2011-04-05 | University of Birmingham, IT Services, Birmingham, West Midlands, B15 2TT, United Kingdom
GPFS User Group Meeting: 5th April 2011
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and review of group aims
Barry Evans, OCF
11:10 GPFS Cache
Kalyan Gunda, IBM
12:10 Discussions
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 CEDAR Project and Futures
Mark Roberts and Dave Murray, AWE
14:00 GPFS at the Met Office
Robin Pallister, MET Office
14:30 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
15:20 GPFS User Group Committee Development
Led by Barry Evans, OCF
15:50 Conclusions, Barry Evans, OCF
16:00 Close

GPFS User Group #1 November 2010
2010-11-30 | TX
GPFS User Group Meeting: 30th November 2010
Agenda
2:00pm Welcome & Aims of the group
Barry Evans, OCF
2:15pm Group Structure/Format
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Barry Evans, OCF
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3:00pm Close
