Storage Scale User Group @ SC24 - Sunday, November 17th, 2024
2024-11-17 12:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | The Westin Peachtree Plaza, 210 Peachtree St. NW, Atlanta, GA, 30303, United States
There will be a Scale User Group event in Atlanta, Georgia, USA on November 17th, 2024. We will have an exciting agenda covering roadmap updates, the latest insights from the user community, development, research, NVIDIA, and access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: Sunday, November 17th, 2024
Location: The Westin 210 Peachtree St NW, Atlanta, GA 30303
This meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge.
Please register here to attend:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/xb68k0mb/landing/page/landing
Draft Agenda
11:30-12:00 - Registration and Networking -
12:00-12:05 Introductions and Committee Update
12:05-12:10 Welcome from IBM
12:10-12:25 Storage Scale Strategy and Initiatives
12:25-12:40 What's new in Storage Scale
12:40-13:10 Partner Talk: NVIDIA
13:10-13:30 IBM Storage CTO talk: CAST
13:30-13:50 WWT - Overview & AI initiatives: NVIDIA SuperPod
13:50-14:20 - Coffee and Networking -
14:20-14:40 University of Queensland - Site Update
14:40-15:00 IBM Research Vela and Blue Vela Systems for AI
15:00-15:20 Guardant Health: Single Namespace Updates
15:20-15:35 Starfish Update
15:35-15:55 ORNL: A Tale of Two Systems: Incorporation of Storage Archive in the NCCS
15:55-16:15 - Break -
16:15-16:30 Xinnor: Accelerating Storage Scale with xiRAID software RAID at Aalen University
16:30-16:45 Lenovo Update
16:45-17:00 HPC & EDA workloads on IBM Cloud with Storage Scale
17:00-17:25 Sycomp and Google Cloud: AI workloads using Sycomp Storage in GCP
17:25-17:50 Performance updates
17:50-18:00 Ask us Anything + Wrap up
18:00-19:00 - Networking Event - Sponsored by Sycomp -

German New User Day 2025 - March 18, 2025
2025-03-18 09:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Heidelberg Congress Center, Czernyring 20, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale New User Day in Heidelberg, Germany. We have an exciting agenda covering an introduction in Storage Scale and Storage Ceph. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: March 18, 2025 – New User Day
Location: Heidelberg Congress Center, Heidelberg, Germany
The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held in German.The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held in German.
Detailed agenda is available on the registration page. You need to register prior the event.
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/cj23mxmb/landing/page/landing
The New User Day is followed by the regular Storage Scale User Meeting at March 19+20, 2025:
German User Meeting 2025 – March 19+20, 2025

German User Meeting 2025 - March 19+20, 2025
2025-03-19 - 2025-03-20 | Heidelberg Congress Center, Czernyring 20, Heidelberg, 69115, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting in Heidelberg, Germany. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into accelerating AI workloads, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Date: March 19+20, 2025 – Storage Scale German User Meeting
Location: Heidelberg Congress Center, Heidelberg, Germany
The Storage Scale German User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge. The event will be held mostly in German. There will be some sessions in English.
Detailed agenda is available on the registration page. You need to register prior the event.
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/cj23mxmb/landing/page/landing
The Storage Scale Scale User Meeting is preceded by the Storage Scale New User Day at March 18, 2025:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/german-new-user-day-2025-march-18-2025/

CANCELLED - Midwest Storage Scale User Group 2025
2025-04-16 - 2025-04-17 | West Midlands
This event is cancelled. We are looking for a new date later in the year.
Join the Midwest Scale (GPFS) User Group at Case Western Reserve University. Meet with other IBM Storage Scale users, IBM Development and Product Management personnel, IBM Partners, and more.
We will cover the latest strategy and roadmap, how to size your environment, interesting use cases, exciting new capabilities, Scale for containerized workloads, and have guest speakers from customers and partners to share use cases and innovations using IBM Storage Scale and Storage Scale System.
The event is face-to-face and free of charge. Please register here prior the event:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/YQ31JDMB/landing/page/landing
Day 1 – April 16th 9 AM – 5 PM
Tinkham Veale University Center – Senior Class Conference Room
11038 Bellflower Road, Cleveland, OH
We will have a full day of sessions
Day 2 – April 17th 8 AM – 12 PM
Adelbert Hall – Toepfer Room – Second floor
2040 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, OH
We will be a mini-workshop
Would you like to present? Submit your session on our Call for Speakers form, due by March 28th, 2025.

UK New User Day 2025 - May 12, 2025
2025-05-12 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale New User Day in London, UK. We have an exciting agenda covering an introduction in Storage Scale and Storage Ceph. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Detailed agenda will follow later.
Date: May 12, 2025 – New User Day
Location: IBM Innovation Center, London, UK
The New User Day is face-to-face only and free of charge. You need to register prior the event.
https://briefingsource.edst.ibm.com/register/VJAFL4EP
The New User Day is followed by the regular Storage Scale User Meeting at May 13+14, 2025:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-user-meeting-2025-may-1314-2025/

UK User Meeting 2025 - May 13+14, 2025
2025-05-13 - 2025-05-14 | IBM Client Center London, 20 York Road, London, SE1 7ND, United Kingdom
The 2025 Storage Scale UK User Meeting will be held in London, UK. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into accelerating AI workloads, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Topics planned to be covered include:

Strategy Update
What is new in Storage Scale and Storage Scale System?
Solutions for Nvidia workload
Content Aware Storage
New control plane for Storage Scale (a.k.a. Modernization of Scale)
Containerized Native and CSI deep dive
AFM deep dive
Storage Scale S3 tiering to tape and advanced S3 functions
Consistent Safeguarded Copy for Storage Protect on Storage Scale

Detailed agenda will follow later.
Date: May 13+14, 2025 – Storage Scale UK User Meeting
Location: IBM Innovation Center, London, UK
The Storage Scale UK User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge. You need to register prior the event.
https://briefingsource.edst.ibm.com/register/MSXF49FA
The Storage Scale Scale User Meeting is preceded by the Storage Scale New User Day at May 12, 2025:
https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-new-user-day-2025-may-12-2025/

Sponsored by

Storage Scale User Meeting @ ISC25
2025-06-10 15:00 - 18:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Congress Center Hamburg (CCH), Congressplatz 1, Hamburg, 20355, Germany
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting at ISC 2025. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, insights into potential future product enhancements, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Date: Tuesday, June 10, 2025 – 15:00-18:00 | ISC Convention Center – Room: XC2
The User Meeting is face-to-face only and free of charge, though an ISC exhibition pass is required to access the venue. We are looking forward to welcome you to this event

Please register here for the event:
https://www.ibm.com/events/reg/flow/ibm/QB4LEYMB/landing/page/landing
NDA’s have to be signed when entering the meeting room as roadmap items are discussed. A non-confidential version of the charts will be made available after the event.
This meeting will cover the following topics:

Keynote – Shaping what’s next: With trusted storage and bold vision
What is new in Storage Scale and Storage Scale System?
Performance update
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI) – Site Update

Please see the registration page for details and updates.
After the meeting we invite you for a reception with refreshments to continue the conversation.

West Coast IBM Storage Scale New User Day and User Group Event 2025
2025-08-05 - 2025-08-07 | IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA, 95141, United States
This West Coast IBM Storage Scale Users Group event is open to all IBM Storage Scale (GPFS) and IBM Scale System (ESS) users, as well as those who wish to learn more about IBM Storage Scale (IBM employees, IBM Business Partners and Customers).
IBM Storage Scale is IBM’s flagship software-defined parallel file system infused with sophisticated enterprise data management capabilities. The IBM Storage Scale System is a preconfigured high-performance hardware “building block” for unstructured data storage with unrivaled integrity. Ready to participate in today’s multi-cloud world of AI, HPC, and Big Data, Storage Scale delivers the performance and agility you need to get deeper insights from your data faster – giving you the edge to outthink and outperform your competition and win in the cognitive era.
Join us for this interactive New Scale User Day and/or Technical Users Group experience on IBM Storage Scale and the Storage Scale System!
Day 1 – Accelerate your AI Model, Training, and Inferencing with IBM Storage Scale
Day 1 is for New Clients interested in how IBM Storage Scale and IBM Storage Scale can accelerate their AI environments
Learn how data generation is changing today, and how IBM Storage Scale can accelerate AI workloads and access data anywhere via a global data platform.
How to optimize NVIDIA DGX SuperPOD and NVIDIA DGX environments for model training and inferencing with IBM Storage Scale and IBM’s new Content Aware Storage.
Location: IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA 95141
Session Times: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Please register here for the New User Day.
Day 2 and 3 – IBM Storage Scale Users Meeting
The 2025 West Coast User Group Meeting will be held in San Jose, California. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, the latest insights into accelerating AI workloads, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event.
Agenda:

IBM Storage Scale strategy update
IBM Content Aware Storage
Product-related updates
Scale S3 tiering
Break-outs, workshops and collaborations

Location: IBM San Jose, 555 Bailey Avenue, San Jose, CA 95141
Session Times: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Please register here for the regular user meeting.
Important Note: Dress is business casual and customers will need to bring their own laptop for hands on labs. Attendees will be responsible for their own travel and lodging arrangements and expenses.
For more information on Users Group information: Paul Zakoor (pzakoor@us.ibm.com).

Storage Scale User Meeting @ eResearch Australasia 2025
2025-10-20 | West Midlands
IBM is organizing a Storage Scale User Meeting at eResearch Australia 2025. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories, roadmap update, insights into potential future product enhancements, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event. The user meeting is followed by a Get Together to continue the discussion.
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025 – whole day
More details will follow later.

CIUK User Group 2025
2025-12-01 08:00 - 17:00 (Europe/London) | Manchester Central Convention Complex, Petersfield, Manchester, M2 3GX, United Kingdom
CIUK DAY TWO – Friday 5 December 2025 – 11:30 – 13:30

Organiser: Michael Holliday (UCL)

(CIUK Breakout Room)
Exchange Rooms 8 – 10
Upstairs at Manchester Central

Duration
Start Time
End Time
Topic
Speaker

5
11:30
11:35
Intro
Michael, Laurence and Chris

35
11:35
12:10
What’s new in Scale and Scale System?
Chris

15
12:10
12:25
The Journey to Modernising Trust in GPFS
Laurence

15
12:25
12:40
Tuxera
Duncan

15
12:40
12:55
IBM Support Update
Par

20
12:55
13:15
AI Data Engine (File Heat, Content …)
Chris

15
13:15
13:30
Bridgeworks
