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UID:1139-1553040000-1553212799@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:IBM Spectrum Scale Strategy Days
DESCRIPTION:This event is run by IBM and is mostly spoken in German. \nSoftware-Defined Storage ist gegenwertig eines der heißesten Themen in Unternehmen. Bei dieser kostenfreien Veranstaltung können Sie sich auf den aktuellen Stand rund um das Thema Spectrum Scale bringen. Der Einsteigertag am 19. März vermittelt Ihnen die Grundlagen und gibt einen Rundumblick zum Einordnen\, Ausloten und Auffrischen der Kenntnisse. An den Expertentagen am 20. und 21. März vertiefen Sie Ihr Wissen. Melden Sie sich jetzt an\, wahlweise für die gesamte Veranstaltung\, nur für den Einsteigertag oder die Expertentage. Die Teilnahme ist kostenlos und die Veranstaltungssprache überwiegend Deutsch. \nThe role that IT infrastructures plays is especially visible in IBM Systems Storage solutions by increasing the effectiveness and reducing the costs of the storage and compute resources that support enterprise applications and drive sustainable and immediate enterprise value generation.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ibm-spectrum-scale-strategy-days/
LOCATION:IBM Client Center Ehningen\, IBM-Allee 1\, Ehningen\, 71139\, Germany
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190311
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190312
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20190130T134710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190201T130843Z
UID:1136-1552262400-1552348799@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group @SC Asia
DESCRIPTION:The Spectrum Scale Usergroup Singapore will feature a number of Spectrum Scale (GPFS) experts presenting on a wide variety of topics on Spectrum Scale. \nThis event hopes to provide you with the opportunity to hear the latest Spectrum Scale updates from the filesystem and storage experts as well as hear from other users and technical experts on their experiences and uses of Spectrum Scale.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-sc-asia/
LOCATION:Suntec Singapore Convention and Exhibition Centre\, 1 Raffles Blvd\, Suntec City\, 039593\, Singapore
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20181212
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181214
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20181001T093423Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181005T195450Z
UID:1103-1544572800-1544745599@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Computing Insight UK 2018
DESCRIPTION:Following the success of previous events we will be returning to Manchester Central and will again be including two full days of presentations and talks running alongside an exhibition of the latest technologies from the leading hardware and software developers and resellers\, an exhibitor forum and a series of breakout sessions. \nThis year the theme for the conference will be “Research Computing Delivers” and the main programme will include presentations covering four sub-themes “Career paths – service provision roles”\, “Working with industry”\, Applications science” and “Data science”. \nPlease note you must be a registered attendee of CIUK to attend this event.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/computing-insight-uk-2018/
LOCATION:Manchester Central Convention Complex\, Petersfield\, Manchester\, M2 3GX\, United Kingdom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Belize:20181111T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Belize:20181111T183000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171111T151756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181011T145901Z
UID:812-1541939400-1541961000@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SuperComputing 2018 #SC18
DESCRIPTION:Join the Spectrum Scale user group at this year’s SC18 conference. Further details to be confirmed shortly. Draft agenda: \n  \nStart End Duration Title\n12:30 13:00 30 Welcome\n13:00 13:30 30 Spectrum Scale Update (incl Performance)\n13:30 13:45 15 ESS Update\n13:45 14:00 15 Service Update\n14:00 14:15 15 Customer / Partner Talk\n14:15 14:30 15 Customer / Partner Talk\n14:30 14:50 20 Running Container on a Super Computer\n14:50 15:20 30 Break\n15:20 15:40 20 AI Discussion\n15:40 16:00 20 Best Practices for Protocol Nodes\n16:00 16:20 20 Network Design\n16:20 16:35 15 Customer / Partner Talk\n16:35 16:50 15 Customer / Partner Talk\n16:50 17:10 20 Burst Buffer\n17:10 17:30 20 Meta Data Management with Spectrum Discover\n17:30 18:00 30 “Ask us anything\nNote: Refreshments will be served during this session”
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/supercomputing-2018-sc18/
LOCATION:Omni Dallas Hotel\, 555 S Lamar\, Dallas\, TX\, 75202\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Rome:20181024T170000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Rome:20181024T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180928T173404Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T173404Z
UID:1098-1540400400-1540409400@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group Meetup  - Europe IBM Technical University
DESCRIPTION:If you are attending the Technical University in Rome\, be sure and stop by for the meetup! \nEurope Systems Technical University – https://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=page&c=Q424461P26867Y60 \nRome\, Italy\nRome Marriott Park Hotel \nDate: Wednesday 24th October 2018 \nTime: 17:00pm – 19:30 PM \nRoom: Bernini 4 \nAgenda:\n17:00 – Welcome & Introductions \n17:10 – IBM Spectrum Scale Enhancements and CORAL \n18:00 – Spectrum Scale Use Cases \n18:30 – Client Presentation – Why Spectrum Scale ? \n18:50 – AI with ESS: Better Inference\, Throughput and Cost \n19:20 – Questions & Close \n19:30 – Cocktails & Networking \n  \nRegistration: If you are interested to attend this Meetup\, please come to the IBM Registration Desk to sign-up\, as seats are limited.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-meetup-europe-ibm-technical-university/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181024T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180927T144052Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180927T144052Z
UID:1088-1540368000-1540400400@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group Meeting – NYC - New York Genome Center
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-meeting-nyc-new-york-genome-center/
LOCATION:New York Genome Center\, 101 Avenue of the Americas\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20181017T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20181017T193000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180928T172922Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180928T172922Z
UID:1092-1539797400-1539804600@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group Meetup -  NA Systems Technical University
DESCRIPTION:If you are attending the IBM Technical University\, then be sure and stop by and attend the meetup! \nTechU Event Page: \nhttps://www-03.ibm.com/services/learning/ites.wss/zz-en?pageType=page&c=C954862Z05206G17Hollywood \nDate: Wednesday 17th October 2018 \nTime: 17:30 PM – 19:30 PM \nRoom: 204 \nAgenda:\n17:30 – Welcome & Introductions \n17:40 – IBM Spectrum Scale Enhancements and CORAL \n18:30 – Spectrum Scale Use Cases \n18:50 – Client Presentation – Why Spectrum Scale ? \n19:10 – AI with ESS: Better Inference\, Throughput and Cost \n19:30 – Questions & Close \n19:40 – Cocktails & Networking \n  \nRegistration: If you are interested to attend this Meetup\, please come to the IBM Registration Desk to sign-up\, as seats are limited.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-meetup-na-systems-technical-university/
LOCATION:The Diplomat Beach Resort\, FL\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20181010T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20181010T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180907T095444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180907T095444Z
UID:1082-1539187200-1539190800@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale Request for Enhancements Voting
DESCRIPTION:GPFS/Spectrum Scale Users\, \nHere’s a long-ish note about our plans to try and improve the RFE process. We’ve tried to include a tl;dr version if you just read the headers. You’ll find the details underneath 😉 and reading to the end is ideal. \nIMPROVING THE RFE PROCESS\nAs you’ve heard on the list\, and at some of the in-person User Group events\, we’ve been talking about ways we can improve the RFE process. We’d like to begin having an RFE forum\, and have it be de-coupled from the in-person events because we know not everyone can travel. \nLIGHTNING PRESENTATIONS ON-LINE \nIn general terms\, we’d have regular on-line events\, where RFEs could be very briefly (5 minutes\, lightning talk) presented by the requester. There would then be time for brief follow-on discussion and questions. The session would be recorded to deal with large time zone differences. \nFOLLOW UP POLL \nA poll\, independent of current RFE voting\, would be conducted a couple days after the recording was available to gather votes and feedback on the RFEs submitted —we may collect site name\, to see how many votes are coming from a certain site. \nMAY NOT GET IT RIGHT THE FIRST TIME\nWe view this supplemental RFE process as organic\, that is\, we’ll learn as we go and make modifications. The overall goal here is to highlight the RFEs that matter the most to the largest number of UG members by providing a venue for people to speak about their RFEs and collect feedback from fellow community members. \nRFE PRESENTERS WANTED\, SUBMISSION DEADLINE OCTOBER 1ST\nWe’d like to guide a small handful of RFE submitters through this process the first time around\, so if you’re interested in being a presenter\, let us know now. We’re planning on doing the online meeting and poll for the first time in mid-October\, so the submission deadline for your RFE is October 1st. If it’s useful\, when you’re drafting your RFE feel free to use the list as a sounding board for feedback. Often sites have similar needs and you may find someone to collaborate with on your RFE to make it useful to more sites\, and thereby get more votes. Some guidelines are here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1o8nN39DTU32qj_EFia5wRhnvfvNfr3cI/view?usp=sharing \nYou can submit by emailing your submission to rfe@spectrumscaleug.org \nPARTICIPANTS (AKA YOU!!)\, VIEW AND VOTE\nWe are seeking very good participation in the RFE on-line events needed to make this an effective method of Spectrum Scale Community and IBM Developer collaboration.  It is to your benefit to participate and help set priorities on Spectrum Scale enhancements!!  We want to make this process light lifting for you as a participant.  We will limit the duration of the meeting to 1 hour to minimise the use of your valuable time. Please register for the event and voting using the Eventbrite link and we’ll send you details of the online meeting nearer the time.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-request-for-enhancements-voting/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180919
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180920
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180828T115522Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180828T115522Z
UID:1079-1537315200-1537401599@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:GPFS/SS UG Event at ORNL\,Register by September 1
DESCRIPTION:Registration link\, you can register just for GPFS/SS day at $0:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/hpcxxl-2018-summer-meeting-registration-47111539884\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIMPORTANT: September 1st is the deadline to register for HPCXXL and the GPFS Day. Registration closes earlier than normal. This is due to the background check required to attend the event on site at ORNL. The access review process takes at least 3 weeks to complete for foreign nationals and 1 week to complete for US Citizens. So don’t wait too long to make your travel decisions.About HPCXXL:HPCXXL is a user group for sites which have large supercomputing and storage installations. Because of the history of HPCXXL\, the focus of the group is on large-scale scientific/technical computing using IBM or Lenovo hardware and software\, but other vendor hardware and software is also welcome. Some of the areas we cover are: Applications\, Code Development Tools\, Communications\, Networking\, Parallel I/O\, Resource Management\, System Administration\, and Training. We address topics across a wide range of issues that are important to sustained petascale scientific/technical computing on scaleable parallel machines. Some of the benefits of joining the group include knowledge sharing across members\, NDA content availability from vendors\, and access to vendor developers and support staff.The HPCXXL user group is a self-organized and self-supporting group. Members and affiliates are expected to participate actively in the HPCXXL meetings and activities and to cover their own costs for participating. HPCXXL meetings are open only to members and affiliates of the HPCXXL. HPCXXL member institutions must have an appropriate non-disclosure agreement in place with IBM and Lenovo\, since at times both vendors disclose and discuss information of a confidential nature with the group.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/gpfs-ss-ug-event-at-ornlregister-by-september-1/
LOCATION:NY
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180625T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20180625T173000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180529T082703Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180623T210147Z
UID:1068-1529935200-1529947800@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:IBM Spectrum Scale Meeting at ISC
DESCRIPTION:IBM is organising a get together at ISC. It is a joint meeting for IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Spectrum LSF users. \nConference Room: Applaus \n14:00-14:15 Welcome – Gabor Samu (IBM) / Ulf Troppens (IBM)\n14:15-14:45 What is new in Spectrum Scale? – Mathias Dietz (IBM)\n14:45-15:00What is new in ESS? – Christopher Maestas (IBM)\n15:00-15:15 High Capactiy File Storage – Oliver Kill (pro-com)\n15:15-15:35 Site Report: CSCS – Stefano Gorini (CSCS)\n15:35-15:55 Site Report: University of Birmingham – Simon Thompson (University of Birmingham)\n15:55-16:25 What is new in Spectrum Computing? – Bill McMillan (IBM)\n16:25-16:55 Deep Dive on one Spectrum Scale Feature –  Olaf Weiser (IBM)\n16:55-17:25 Spectrum Scale enhancements for CORAL – Sven Oehme (IBM)\n17:25-17:30 Wrap-up – Gabor Samu (IBM) / Ulf Troppens (IBM) \nTo register: \nhttps://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp308.nsf/Registration.xsp?openform&seminar=AA4A99ES
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ibm-spectrum-scale-meeting-at-isc/
LOCATION:ISC Conference Venue\, Messe Frankfurt Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1\, Frankfurt am Main\, 60327\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180516T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180517T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180213T142533Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180403T083121Z
UID:931-1526461200-1526576400@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:USA 2018 Spectrum Scale User Group
DESCRIPTION:The  USA meeting will be taking place at the IBM Innovation Center\, Cambridge\, MA on 16th & 17th May 2018. \nFurther details and registration can be found on the Eventbrite page.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/usa-2018-spectrum-scale-user-group/
LOCATION:IBM Innovation Center Boston\, One Rogers Street\, Boston\, MA\, 02142-1203\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180514T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180315T102931Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T103259Z
UID:980-1526314500-1526321700@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale meet up at IBM System z Technical University
DESCRIPTION:There’s a Spectrum Scale Meet Up taking place at the System Z Technical University on 14th May in London. It’s free to attend and is an ideal opportunity to learn about Spectrum Scale on IBM Z in particular and hear from the UK Met Office. Please email your registration to Par Hettinga par@nl.ibm.com and if you have any questions\, please contact Par. \nDate: Monday 14th May 2018 \nTime: 4.15pm – 6:15pm \nAgenda:\n16.15 – Welcome & Introductions\n16.25 – IBM Spectrum Scale and Industry Use Cases for IBM System Z\n17.10 – UK Met Office – Why IBM Spectrum Scale with System Z\n17.40 – Spectrum Scale on IBM Z\n18.10 – Questions & Close\n18.15 – Drinks & Networking \nLocation:\nRoom B4 Beaujolais\nNovotel London West\n1 Shortlands\nLondon W6 8DR\nUnited Kingdom
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/systemz/
LOCATION:Novotel London West\, 1 Shortlands\, London\, W6 8DR\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20180425T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20180425T181500
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20180424T152016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180424T152217Z
UID:1052-1524672900-1524680100@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale Big Data and Analytics Meetup at Systems Technical University
DESCRIPTION:Target audience: Clients\, Channel Partners\, and IBM Technical participants. \nObjective: Share IBM differentiated offerings and solutions for running Hadoop\, Spark and related Big data and Analytics workloads. \nDate: Wednesday 25th April 2018 \nTime: 4.15pm – 6:15PM \nAgenda:\n16.15 – Welcome & Introductions \n16.20– Modernize your Data Warehouse with Hadoop \n17.05 – IBM vision for solving the ML/DL challenges in AI \n17.50 – Questions & Close \n18.15 – Drinks & Networking \nLocation: \nMeeting room Giza 1 \nRaffles Dubai \, 13th Street \, Sheikh Rashid Rd \nSheikh Zayed Road\nDubai\nUnited Arab Emirates\n1 800 768 9009 \n  \nTo register\, please email Par Hettinga par@ibm.nl.com. The website for the IBM Systems Technical University: https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=2095718
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/techu-dubai/
LOCATION:Raffles Dubai\, 13th Street\, Sheikh Rashid Road\, Dubai\, United Arab Emirates
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180418
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180420
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171101T123611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180420T153857Z
UID:728-1524009600-1524182399@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:UK 2018 User Group Event
DESCRIPTION:The UK user group for 2018 is taking place on 18th & 19th April 2018 at IBM Client Centre\, London. \nThe agenda for the day is listed below. Presentations are linked\, where available from the talk title. Videos of the talks are available at in a YouTube playlist. \nWednesday 18th April 2018\n\n\n\n09:00\n10:00\nARRIVALS & REGISTRATION\n\n\n\n10:00\n10:30\nOpening & welcome\nSimon Thompson / Claire O’Toole / Ted Hoover\n\n\n10:30\n11:15\nUpdate Scale (video) / ESS / Support (video)\nMathias Dietz & Chris Maestas\n\n\n11:15\n11:40\nMultiCloud Transparent Cloud Tiering (video)\nRob Basham\n\n\n11:40\n12:00\nSponsor Talk E8 \n\n\n\n\nShared NVMe for High Performance Spectrum Scale Clusters (video) \n\n\n\n\n\nStuart Campbell\n\n\n12:00\n13:00\nLUNCH\n\n\n\n13:00\n13:20\nUser Talk – EBI and IBM update – MMAP issues (video – both talks)\nJordi Valls / Sven Oehme\n\n\n13:20\n13:40\nSponsor Talk NEC \n\n\n\n\nGxFS Storage Appliance at Karlsruher Institute of Technology (video) \n\n\n\n\n\nJan Erik Sundermann\n\n\n13:40\n14:00\nTooling Scale – Automation\n Open Discussion\n\n\n14:00\n14:20\nUser Talk – Rohde&Schwarz \n\n\n\n\nR&S VSA (Virtual storage access) Reliable fault tolerant storage in Broadcast (video) \n\n\n\n\n\nOliver Gappa\n\n\n14:20\n14:40\nSponsor Talk – OCF \n\n\n\n\nNovel TCT: A brief demo on using TCT with alternative cloud gateways \n\n\n\n\n\nLaurence Horrocks-Barlow\n\n\n14:40\n15:10\nBREAK\n\n\n\n15:10\n15:30\nSponsor Talk – Ellexus \nTen commandments of good I/O\nDr. Rosemary Francis\n\n\n15:30\n15:50\nUser Talk – Scientific Computing & Storage at The Francis Crick Institute\nMichael Holliday\n\n\n 15:50\n 16:35\nMixing storage systems in Spectrum Scale – Migrations & pools stories\nLuis Bolinches\n\n\n16:35\n17:20\nBurning Issues Discussion\nCarl Zetie\n\n\n17:20\n17:30\nWRAP UP\nSimon Thompson / Claire O’Toole\n\n\n\nIn the evening there is a networking/social event (food + drinks) at a local restaurant. Further details will be provided on the day. \nThursday 19th April 2018\n\n\n\n08:30\n09:00\nARRIVALS\n\n\n\n09:00\n10:00\nAWS Installation Live Demo & Container Update\nJohn Lewars\n\n\n\n\nComposable Infrastructure for Genomics Medicine Workloads\nUlf Troppens\n\n\n\n\nGUI capabilities in multi-cluster setups like AFM and cross-cluster mount\nMarkus Rohwedder\n\n\n10:00\n11:00\nFile System Audit Logging / Running Spectrum Scale in a Vagrant environment\nChris Maestas\n\n\n\n\nREST API – Update & Deep Dive in Health Monitoring and Zimon Queries\nAndreas Koeninger\n\n\n\n\nAFM Deep Dive – Tuning and debugging\nVenkateswara Puvvada\n\n\n11:00\n12:00\nScale on Z / Mainframe\nSusanne Wintenberger\n\n\n\n\nNetwork Flows\nJohn Lewars\n\n\n\n\nSystem Health\, Performance Monitoring & Call Home\nMathias Dietz\n\n\n12:00\n13:00\nLUNCH\n\n\n\n13:00\n13:20\nUser Talk – QMUL\nPeter Childs\n\n\n13:20\n13:40\nSponsor Talk – Lenovo\nMichael Hennecke\n\n\n13:40\n14:20\nThe advent of NVMe. What does this mean for Scale?\nSven Oehme\n\n\n14:20\n14:50\nBREAK\n\n\n\n14:50\n15:10\nUser Talk – MAX IV\nAndreas Mattsson\n\n\n15:10\n15:30\nSponsor Talk – DDN\nVic Cornell\n\n\n15:30\n16:30\nCognititive\, ML\, Hortonworks\nYong ZY Zheng\n\n\n16:30\n16:40\nCLOSE\nSimon Thompson / Claire O’Toole\n\n\n\nWith thanks to our sponsors for their support. \n \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/uk-2018-user-group-event/
LOCATION:IBM South Bank\, 76/78 Upper Ground\, London\, SE1 9PZ\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20180326T083000
DTEND;TZID=Asia/Singapore:20180326T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T121318Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T083120Z
UID:716-1522053000-1522087200@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale Usergroup Singapore 2018
DESCRIPTION:The inaugural Spectrum Scale Usergroup Singapore will feature a number of Spectrum Scale (GPFS) experts presenting on a wide variety of topics on Spectrum Scale. \nDate: Monday 26th March 2018 \nVenue: Resorts World Sentosa\, Singapore \nThis event aims to provide you with the opportunity to hear the latest Spectrum Scale updates from the filesystem and storage experts as well as hear from other users and technical experts on their experiences and uses of Spectrum Scale. \nIf you have questions to ask when you attend\, you can email the organiser or prepare them for the day and the open session in the morning. \nPlease register your intention to attend: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scale-user-group-singapore-march-2018-tickets-40429354287 \n \nAs with all SSUG meetings\, this is a forum for technical discussion and is not a sales opportunity. \nTentative Agenda: \nThe draft agenda currently looks like this (it is subject to change and reordering of timings depending on availability of speakers etc): \n8:30am Sign-in and coffee.\n9:00am Introduction and meeting kick off (by Chris Schlipalius\, The Pawsey Supercomputing Centre\, Perth)\n9:05am Spectrum Scale Roadmap 5.0 and beyond – TBC\, IBM (NDA Session – you must provide a signed form to attend this session).\n10:05am Site Report – TBA\n10:30am-11:00am Morning Tea\n11:00am Conductor With Spark Proof of Concept Results on Intel – J. Jiang\, Pawsey\n11:30am TBA\n12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch\n1:30pm TBA\n2:00pm TBA\n3:00pm TBA\n3:30pm TBA\n4:00-4:30pm Afternoon tea\n4:30pm Site Reports;\n– All attending should be ready to report on new work please 5:00pm Q&A Session\, discussion with technical experts (please give your questions to Chris on the day when you arrive or email them through).\n5:45pm Wrap up – proposals for new talks topics\, feedback\, follow up\, mention of the next meeting proposed for 2018.\n6:00pm (or earlier if all is covered) Close then cocktails (provided by sponsors) \nWith thanks to IBM\, Pawsey Supercomputing Centre and NSCC Singapore. \nAny questions can be directed to Chris Schlipalius.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-usergroup-singapore-2018/
LOCATION:Resorts World Sentosa Singapore\, 8 Sentosa Gateway\, Sentosa Island\, 098269\, Singapore
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180228
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180302
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T125605Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180102T221746Z
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SUMMARY:IBM German Spectrum Scale User Meeting
DESCRIPTION:IBM are holding their German Spectrum Scale user group meeting on 28th February and 1st March 2018. In addition\, there is also a beginners day on 27th February. \nThis event is organised by IBM and is typically mostly spoken in German. The agenda and registration details on the on the event registration page. The event will include both IBM presentations as well as customer and business partner speakers.
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ibm-german-spectrum-scale-user-meeting/
LOCATION:IBM Client Center Ehningen\, IBM-Allee 1\, Ehningen\, 71139\, Germany
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20171212T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20171212T170000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T120906Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T153236Z
UID:708-1513087200-1513098000@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG @ CIUK 2017
DESCRIPTION:The Spectrum Scale user group is holding an informal meeting at CIUK to provide you with an opportunity to learn more about the features of the latest release\, hear from spectrum scale users on their experiences and to network with other users. \nPlease ensure you are registered for CIUK (https://eventbooking.stfc.ac.uk/news-events/ciuk-2017) and select to attend the session when registering. \nDate: 12th December 2017\, 2-5pm \nVenue: Manchester Central \n2pm Introductions and welcome\, Simon Thompson & Claire O’Toole (SSUG Committee)\n2:10pm Spectrum Scale 5.0\, Daniel Kidger (IBM)\n2:40pm Deep Dive: Blueprints\, Ulf Troppens (IBM)\n3:40pm User Talk: Institute of Cancer Research\, Robert Horton (ICR)\n4:00pm User Talk: Red Bull Technology\, John Brookes (Red Bull Technology)\n4:20pm Questions and discussion\n4:50pm Close
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-ciuk-2017/
LOCATION:Manchester Central\, Windmill St\, Manchester\, M2 3GX\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20171112T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20171112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T121529Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T121529Z
UID:718-1510489800-1510509600@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG @ SC17
DESCRIPTION:The Spectrum Scale user group will be hosting a meeting at this years SC17. \nThis global user-led meeting provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and interaction with IBM’s technical leadership on the latest in IBM Spectrum Scale\, including the latest updates from the CORAL project. This session will feature user presentations on the effective configuration of multi-site clusters\, deployment options for industry standard NFS protocols\, and managing mixed workloads with Big Data Analytics. The main agenda will be followed by a cocktail reception at 5:30 pm to continue the discussions. \nDate: Sunday\, November 12\, 2017 12:30 pm – 6:00 pm \nVenue: Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center\, 650 15th Street\, Denver\, Colorado 80202 United States \nRoom Location: Look for signs when you arrive \nNOTE: You MUST register to attend the user group meeting. Please complete your details on the registration page: https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?openform&seminar=Q7D6EKES \nFull agenda \n12:30-13:00 Welcome\, Kristy Kallback-Rose\, Bob Oesterlin (User Group)\, Doris Conti (IBM)\n13:00-13:30 Spectrum Scale Update\, Scott Fadden\n13:30-13:40 ESS Update\, Puneet Chaudhary\n13:40-13:50 Ask me anything\, Carl Zetie\n13:50-14:05 Customer talk – Children’s Mercy Kansas City\, James McKenna\, Shane Corder\n14:05-14:20 Customer talk – Max Dellbrück Center\, Alf Wachsmann\n14:20-14:35 Customer talk – University of Pennsylvania Medical\, Anand Srinivasan\n14:35-15:00 Live Debug Session\, Tomer Perry\n15:00-15:30 Break\n15:30-15:50 Customer talk – DESY / European XFEL\, Martin Gasthuber\n15:50-16:05 Customer talk – University of Birmingham\, Simon Thompson\n16:05-16:25 Fast Restripe FS\, Hai Zhong Zhou\n16:25-16:45 TCT Scaled Environment Live Demo\, Rob Basham\n16:45-17:05 High Performance Data Analysis (incl customer)\, Piyush Chaudhary\n17:05-17:30 Performance Enhancements for CORAL\, Sven Oehme\n17:30-18:00 Ask the developers \nRefreshments will be served at 5.30pm
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-sc17/
LOCATION:Hyatt Regency Denver\, 650 15th Street\, Denver\, CO\, 80202\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171017
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171018
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131108Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131108Z
UID:747-1508198400-1508284799@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group Australia\, Brisbane\, Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-australia-brisbane-australia/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170928
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170929
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131235Z
UID:749-1506556800-1506643199@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG @ HPCXXL\, New York Academy of Medicine\, NY\, USA
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-hpcxxl-new-york-academy-of-medicine-ny-usa/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170803
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170805
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131216Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131216Z
UID:751-1501718400-1501891199@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group\, Perth Australia
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-perth-australia/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170511
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131305Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171204T140805Z
UID:753-1494288000-1494460799@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group main UK meeting
DESCRIPTION:UK May 2017 User Group: Registration\n\n \n\nWe’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! \nThe 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. \nAs usual\, we will have a packed agenda with speakers from the IBM development teams\, user talks as well as technical talks from our sponsors. \nThe 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. \nThe 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! \nSponsors\nWe’d very much like to thank the following sponsors for supporting the user group meeting by providing funding to support the evening social event: \n\n\n\nArcaStream\n\nDDN\n\n\n\nEllexus\n\nLenovo\n\n\n\nIBM\n\nMellanox\n\n\n\nOCF\n\nSeagate\n\n\n\n\n\nMedia Sponsor:\n \nAgenda\nDay 1 – 9th May 2017\n\n\n\n09:00 – 10:00\nRegistration & Networking\n\n\n10:00 – 10:30\nOpening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG)\, Michael Daubman (IBM)\n\n\n10:30 – 11:20\nSpectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM)\n\n\n11:20 – 11:40\nESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM)\n\n\n11:40 – 12:00\nSponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis\n\n\n12:00 – 13:00\nLunch & Networking\n\n\n13:00 – 13:20\nCustomer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC)\n\n\n13:20 – 13:40\nSponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell\n\n\n13:40 – 14:30\nSpectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM)\n\n\n14:30 – 14:50\nLicensing – Carl Zetie (IBM)\n\n\n14:50 – 15:20\nCoffee and Networking\n\n\n15:20 – 15:40\nSponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans\n\n\n15:40 – 16:30\nProblem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM)\n\n\n16:30 – 17:20\nBest Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM)\n\n\n17:50 – 18:00\nWrap up\n\n\n18:00\nFinish\n\n\n19:00\nEvening Social Event\, drinks and food – Manchester Museum of Science and Industry\n\n\n\nDay 2 – 10th May 2017\n\n\n\n08:30 – 09:00\nCoffee and Networking\n\n\n09:00 – 10:00\nParallel Breakout/workshop session 1 \n\nIntegration with Spectrum Protect for Backup – Fabian Kulhl (IBM)\nDocker Support / Update on metadata sizing – Olaf Weiser (IBM)\, Indulis Bernsteins (IBM)\nCES Authentication / Spectrum Scale Security (Meet the Devs) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)\n\n\n\n\n10:00 – 11:00\nParallel Breakout/workshop session 2 \n\nIntroduction to AFM and Use Cases – Nils Haustein (IBM)\nObject\, SwiftHLM and OpenStack (cloud) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)\, Simon Lorenz (IBM)\nGUI and REST API (Meet the Devs) – Alexander Wolf (IBM)\n\n\n\n\n11:00 – 12:00\nParallel Breakout/workshop session 3 \n\nAutomation of Storage Services – Nils Haustein (IBM)\nContainer and Virtualisation support (Cloud) – John Lewars (IBM)\nHDFS Support (Meet the Devs) – Piyush Chaudrhary (IBM)\n\n\n\n\n12:00 – 13:00\nLunch & Networking\n\n\n13:00 – 13:20\nSponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins\n\n\n13:20 – 13:40\nCustomer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF)\n\n\n13:40 – 14:00\nSponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee\n\n\n14:00 – 14:20\nCustomer Talk – TBC\n\n\n14:20 – 14:50\nCoffee and Networking\n\n\n14:50 – 16:00\nResearch Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM)\n\n\n16:00 – 16:30\nWrap-up and feedback – Simon Thompson (UG)\, Michael Daubman (IBM)\n\n\n16:30\nFinish\n\n\n\nRegistration\nTo register for this year’s event\, please use our EventBrite event page at:\nhttps://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrum-scalegpfs-user-group-spring-2017-tickets-32113696932 \nRegistration is now open. \nPlease 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. \nWe look forward to seeing you in May! \n\n\n\nSpectrum Scale User Group Meeting\, Manchester\, UK (May)\nDAY 1\n\nOpening & Welcome – Simon Thompson (UG)\, Michael Daubman (IBM)\nSpectrum Scale Update – Ulf Troppens (IBM)\nESS Update – Christopher Maestas (IBM)\nSponsor Talk 1 – Ellexus: Catching rogue jobs before they overload shared storage: an I/O profiling case study – Dr. Rosemary Francis\nCustomer Talk – “The UK Research Data Facility” – Kieran Leach (EPCC)\nSponsor Talk 2 – DDN: AFM Case Studies – Vic Cornell\nSpectrum Scale Cloud Deployments – Christopher Maestas (IBM)\nLicensing – Carl Zetie (IBM)\nSponsor Talk 3 – Arcastream: Automated Data Curation and Discovery with Spectrum Scale and ArcaStream – Jez Tucker & Barry Evans\nProblem Determination – Simon Lorenz (IBM)\nBest Practices – Olaf Weiser (IBM)\n\nDAY 2\n\nIntegration with Spectrum Protect for Backup – Fabian Kulhl (IBM)\, Additional Material\nDocker Support / Update on metadata sizing – Olaf Weiser (IBM)\, Indulis Bernsteins (IBM)\nCES Authentication / Spectrum Scale Security (Meet the Devs) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)\nIntroduction to AFM and Use Cases – Nils Haustein (IBM)\nObject\, SwiftHLM and OpenStack (cloud) – Sandeep Ramesh (IBM)\, Simon Lorenz (IBM)\nGUI and REST API (Meet the Devs) – Alexander Wolf (IBM)\nAutomation of Storage Services – Nils Haustein (IBM)\nContainer and Virtualisation support (Cloud) – John Lewars (IBM)\nHDFS Support (Meet the Devs) – Piyush Chaudrhary (IBM)\nSponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: RoCE and Spectrum Scale – RDMA support and performance over Ethernet – Darren Harkins\nCustomer Talk – AFM Migration – The road to perdition – Mark Roberts (AWE) & Laurence Horrocks-Barlow (OCF)\nSponsor Talk 5 – Seagate: Accelerating Spectrum Scale with an Intelligent IO Manager – Ray Coetzee\, Additional Material\nCustomer Talk – Scale out storage systems to support Research and Cloud – Simon Thompson (University of Birmingham)\nResearch Topics – Sven Oehme (IBM)
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-main-uk-meeting/
LOCATION:Macdonald Manchester Hotel\, London Road\, Manchester\, M1 2PG\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170427
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170428
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131350Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131350Z
UID:755-1493251200-1493337599@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group Australia meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-australia-meeting/
LOCATION:NY
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20170404
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20170406
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131440Z
UID:757-1491264000-1491436799@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale (GPFS) User Group main USA meeting
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-gpfs-user-group-main-usa-meeting/
LOCATION:NY
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161214
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161215
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131524Z
UID:759-1481673600-1481759999@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG @CIUK 2016
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-ciuk-2016/
LOCATION:Manchester Central\, Windmill St\, Manchester\, M2 3GX\, United Kingdom
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161113
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161114
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171204T140131Z
UID:761-1478995200-1479081599@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG @SC16 Salt Lake City
DESCRIPTION:User Group @SC16\, Salt Lake City\, USA\, November 13th 2016\n\nOpening Talk (Bob Oesterlin)\nThe latest in IBM Spectrum Scale (Scott Fadden\, IBM)\nLicensing Update (Doug O’Flaherty\, IBM)\nESS Updates (Steve Duersch\, IBM)\nNASA NCCS Goddard: Big Data in HPC (Carrie Spear\, Nasa)\nNuance: Tiering to Object Storage (Bob Oesterlin\, Nuance)\nSponsor Talk (NetApp): IBM DCS Storage: The Ideal Building Block for Flexible Spectrum Scale (Matt Forney\, Ennovar)\nVirginia Tech ARC: SANDisk IF150 (Brian Marshall\, Virgina Tech ARC)\nNASA NCCS Goddard: Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB\, (Aaron Knister\, NASA Goddard)\nSpectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL\, (Sarp Oral\, ORNL\, Gautam Shah\, IBM)\nNews from IBM Research (Sven Oehme\, Dean Hildebrand\, IBM)
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-sc16-salt-lake-city/
LOCATION:NY
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161020
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161021
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131809Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131809Z
UID:763-1476921600-1477007999@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG Meet the Devs (Cloud)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-meet-the-devs-cloud/
LOCATION:University of Birmingham\, IT Services\, Birmingham\, West Midlands\, B15 2TT\, United Kingdom
CATEGORIES:Meet the devs
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20161014
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20161015
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T131955Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T131955Z
UID:766-1476403200-1476489599@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:Australian User Group
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/australian-user-group/
LOCATION:Pullman Hotel Melbourne\, 65 Queens Road\, Albert Park\, Melbourne\, 3004\, Australia
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160517
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160519
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T132044Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171204T140055Z
UID:769-1463443200-1463615999@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:SSUG Main UK meeting 2016
DESCRIPTION:User Group 13\, IBM South Bank\, London\, UK\n\nZip containing all talks\nOpening & Welcome – Simon Thompson & Claire O’Toole\nKeynote talk – Doris Conti (no slides)\n4.2 Roadmap & 2016 Priorities\, Ulf Troppens\nDeep Dive – 4.2 GUI & Live Demo\, Markus Rohwedder (no slides)\nSponsor Talk 1 – Seagate: Using Spectrum Scale in the IoT World\, Ray Coetzee\nSponsor Talk 2 – ArcaStream: Python API & Demo\, Jez Tucker\nUser Talk 2 – Milk flows freely from London to Cardiff with AFM\, Dave Goodbourn\, Milk Visual Effects\nSponsor Talk 3 – NetApp: HPC – How NetApp plays in this world\, Molinder Toor\nUser Talk 1 – NCAR’s Globally Accessible Data Environment\, Pamela Gillman\, NCAR\nDeep Dive – Hadoop Integration\, Piyush Chaudhry\nSponsor Talk 4 – Mellanox: Accelerating storage functions in a co-design network\, Darren Harkins\nTechnical Deep Dive – Tiering to the Cloud / MC Store\, Robert Basham\nTechnical Deep Dive – Problem Determination Enhancements\, Mathias Dietz\nLicensing\, David Cremise\nSponsor Talk 5 – OCF: Scale out NAS for the masses\, Laurence Horrocks-Barlow\nSpectrum Scale ILM & Spectrum Archive\, Nils Haustein (introductory)\nMetadata sizing / tuning\, Indulis Bernsteins\, Madhav Ponamgi (advanced)\nAFM Introduction and use cases\, Madhav Ponamgi (introductory)\nSpectrum Protect Integration & Best Practices\, Nils Haustein (Backup and HSM) (advanced)\nEncryption / Compression\, Olaf Weiser\, Yoann Lechevallier (introductory)\nSpectrum Protect with Spectrum Scale\, Nils Haustein (advanced)\nA few words from IBM (room survey)\nSponsor Talk 6 – DDN: Adventures in AFM\, Vic Cornell\nDeep Dive – OpenStack Integration\, Gauging Tapase\nSponsor Talk 7 – IBM: Life Sciences\, Frank Lee\nSponsor Talk 8 – Lenovo\, Michael Hennecke\n look into the future by IBM Research\, Sven Oehme
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-main-uk-meeting-2016/
LOCATION:IBM South Bank\, 76/78 Upper Ground\, London\, SE1 9PZ\, United Kingdom
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20160509
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20160511
DTSTAMP:20260405T225257
CREATED:20171201T132353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171201T132353Z
UID:774-1462752000-1462924799@www.spectrumscaleug.org
SUMMARY:IBM Event: Spectrum Scale Expert Workshop (in German)
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ibm-event-spectrum-scale-expert-workshop-in-german/
LOCATION:IBM Client Center Ehningen\, IBM-Allee 1\, Ehningen\, 71139\, Germany
END:VEVENT
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