BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Spectrum Scale User Group - ECPv6.15.10//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Spectrum Scale User Group REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/London BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20190331T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20191027T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:BST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Asia/Shanghai BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0800 TZOFFSETTO:+0800 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20190101T000000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Chicago BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20200308T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20201101T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20210314T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20211107T070000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:CDT DTSTART:20220313T080000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 TZNAME:CST DTSTART:20221106T070000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Berlin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0200 TZNAME:CEST DTSTART:20230326T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0200 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:CET DTSTART:20231029T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201021T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201021T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20200921T123915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T181136Z UID:2014-1603296000-1603299600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 007 - Manage the lifecycle of your files using the policy engine DESCRIPTION:This episode will provide a comprehensive introduction to the IBM Spectrum Scale policy engine. It highlights the underlying architecture and how policies are executed in a IBM Spectrum Scale cluster. This episode also discusses example rules and policies facilitating Information Lifecycle Management accompanied with practical tips. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nDownload slides here \nReferences\n\nWhitepaper: IBM Spectrum Scale ILM and Archiving Policies – A practical Guide\nSpectrum Scale ILM policy examples and scripts\nApache Tika\n\nQ&A\nQ: ­Which type of nodes participate in policy execution?\nA: Depends on the nodes specified with the -N option of the mmapplypolicy command. If the -N option is not specified\, then the command runs parallel instances of the policy code on the nodes that are specified by the defaultHelperNodes attribute of the mmchconfig command. If -N is specified then the command runs parallel instances on the nodes or node class specified with the -N option. For more information see the IBM Spectrum Scale knowledge center: https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/STXKQY_5.0.5/com.ibm.spectrum.scale.v5r05.doc/bl1adm_mmapplypolicy.htm \nQ: ­Can I somehow identify the type of a file via the policy engine\, e.g. via the magicbyte? Or do I have to rely on the file extension?­\nA: The policy engine does not allow access to the data – only the file’s metadata including extended attributes­ can be evaluated by the policy engine. To identify the type of a file with the policy engine an EXTERNAL LIST rule can be used along with an external script that determines the type of files. \nQ: ­Will the external tool process the filelist in parallel on all nodes\, which are used to generate the filelist?\nA: Yes\, if an external tool or interface script is defined in an EXTERNAL POOL rule then this script is executed on all nodes that are specified with the -N option of the mmapplypolicy command. This assumes that all node specified with the -N option have access to the interface script. If this is not the case\, then the policy run fails. You can control the number of instances of the external tool pool with the option -m and the number of files passed to one instance of the external pool with the option -B of the mmapplypolicy command. \nQ: Are they any limitations or recommendations around length of rules in policy files? For example\, we have ~750 filesets we want to place data on a specific pool. Should we just have one rule\, or many rules for this?\nA: Placement policies will be stored in a single file. The challenge is not so much the length of the file but the number of placement rules contained in the policy files. Whenever a file is created the policy engine must walk through all rules to find a match. If there are many rules\, this will delay the file creation. Therefore I recommend to keep the number of placement rules low. For example\, you could organize the placement policies by storage pools. There is a limit of eight storage pools\, thus this would lead to maximal eight placement rules. In each rule you can use the FILESET statement to specify multiple filesets to be placed on a pool. \nUser group host: Bob Oesterlin\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Nils HausteinNils Haustein is Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Systems. He is responsible for design and implementation of backup\, archiving\, file and object storage solutions. Nils provides guidance to IBM teams and consults with clients and business partners world wide. Nils has co-authored the book "Storage Networks explained". As leading IBM Master Inventor he has created more than 170 patents and is a respected mentor for the technical community world wide. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-spectrum-scale-ilm-policy-engine/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201104T161500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201104T174500 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201008T085002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180743Z UID:2079-1604506500-1604511900@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 008 - Scalable multi-node training for AI workloads on NVIDIA DGX\, Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Spectrum Scale DESCRIPTION:Nvidia and IBM did a complex proof-of-concept to demonstrate the scaling of AI workload using Nvidia DGX\, Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Spectrum Scale at the example of ResNet-50 and the segmentation of images using the Audi A2D2 dataset. The project team published an IBM Redpaper with all the technical details and will present the key learnings and results. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nDownload slides here \nRelated material\n\nIBM Redpaper: Deployment and Usage Guide for Running AI Workloads on Red Hat OpenShift and NVIDIA DGX Systems with IBM Spectrum Scale\nEpisode 6: Persistent Storage for Kubernetes and OpenShift environments\n\nUser group host: Bob Oesterlin\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Thomas SchoenemeyerThomas Schoenemeyer is a Senior Solution Architect and works for the NVIDIA EMEA Automotive Enterprise Team in Munich since March 2019. His area of expertise covers defining the computing architecture and infrastructure for the development of autonomous vehicles. He is helping customers to solve their technical challenges by integrating NVIDIA datacenter products such as the DGX family\, the DriveSim/Constellation and NVIDIA Mellanox Networking solutions. \n\n\n Gero SchmidtGero Schmidt is a Software Engineer at IBM Germany Research and Development GmbH in the IBM Spectrum Scale development group.\nHe joined IBM in 2001 working at the European Storage Competence Center in Mainz\, Germany\, providing technical presales support for a broad range of IBM storage products with a primary focus on enterprise storage solutions\, system performance\, and IBM POWER systems. He participated in the product rollout of the IBM System Storage DS6000/DS8000 series\, co-authored several IBM Redbooks and has been a frequent speaker at IBM international conferences. In 2015 he joined the storage research group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California\, USA\, where he worked on IBM Spectrum Scale\, compression of genomic data in next generation sequencing pipelines\, and the development of a cloud-native backup solution for containerized applications in Kubernetes/Red Hat OpenShift. In 2018 Gero joined the Big Data & Analytics team in the IBM Spectrum Scale development group.\n\n\n Simon LorenzSimon Lorenz is an IT Architect at IBM Research and Development in Frankfurt\, Germany. He joined IBM Germany in 1993 and has held various positions within IBM and IBM Research and Development. During international assignments\, he helped to improve fully automated chip factories in Asia and US. Simon joined the IBM Spectrum Scale development team in 2014 and since then worked on: Openstack Swift integration\, designing and building System Health and Proactive Services solutions. Since March 2019 he is the world wide leader of the IBM Spectrum Scale Big Data and Analytics team. His role includes designing and building solutions in the area of AI such as the Data Accelerator for AI and Analytics. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-multi-node-training-for-ai-workloads/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201116T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201029T165331Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T184703Z UID:2102-1605524400-1605529800@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SC20 Meeting (Session 1): Storage for AI DESCRIPTION:The Spectrum Scale user group meets annually at the SC conference. For 2020 the user group will be split into two 90 minute digital sessions. The second session will be on Wednesday Nov 18th\, 11 am EST\n>> Session 2: What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1? << \nThis session will focus on Storage for AI including a customer case study and a deep dive in new Spectrum Scale features which optimize the analysis of datasets stored in a data lake. Live Q&A will be available.\nThe session will be hosted by IBM and moderated by the user group.\n>> Please register here to join the session. << \nContinental: Deep Thought – An AI Project for Autonomous Driving Development \nContinental\, a tier-1 automotive supplier\, runs a new high-performance cluster based on NVIDIA DGX\, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM ESS to boost autonomous driving development performance. Continental uses this system for deep learning\, simulation\, virtual data generation and related workloads. The new cluster reduces development time from weeks to hours. Speakers from Continental and the business partner SVA will present business requirements and derived workloads\, the Spectrum and ESS implementation\, and first operational experience. \nhttps://www.continental.com/en-us/press-/press-releases/continental-supercomputer-nvidia-228624 \nData Accelerator for AI and Analytics (DAAA) \nThis talk focuses on the need of data orchestration in enterprise data pipelines. It provides details about data orchestration and how to address typical challenges that customers face when dealing with large and ever-growing amounts of data for data analytics. While the amount of data increases steadily\, AI workloads need to speed up in order to be able to deliver insights and business value in a timely manner. IBM addresses these requirements with the Data Accelerator for AI and Analytics (DAAA)\, an expertly engineered solution based on new features delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1. The session will include a demo of a complex proof-of-concept and present the key learnings and results. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/sc20-meeting-session-1-storage-for-ai/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201116T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201116T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201119T173002Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180727Z UID:2151-1605542400-1605546000@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 009 - Deep Thought: An AI Project for Autonomous Driving Development DESCRIPTION:Continental\, a tier-1 automotive supplier\, runs a new high-performance cluster based on NVIDIA DGX\, IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM ESS to boost autonomous driving development performance. Continental uses this system for deep learning\, simulation\, virtual data generation and related workloads. The new cluster reduces development time from weeks to hours. Speakers from Continental and the business partner SVA will present business requirements and derived workloads\, the Spectrum and ESS implementation\, and first operational experience. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nDownload slides here \nQ&A\nDid Continental ever look at Spectrum Discover for tagging? Any feedback on pros/cons for its usefulness at Continental?\nWe did not have a chance to look into Spectrum Discover. \nRelated material\n\nContinental: Automotive supercomputer\nContinental press release\n\nUser Group Host: Bill Anderson\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n David EnenkelDavid Enenkel is the Head of IT Operations at Continental - ADC GmbH. He has over 20 years of IT-Infrastructure experience and moved into the area of ADAS 2\,5 years ago. He and his team are supporting the ADC engineers to find and establish feasible IT solutions/services for the specific ADAS demands as well as operating the platforms and data centers. He led the Supercomputer project as the IT project manager and is happy to give an insight into all ups and downs building up such an environment.\n\n\n Viktor PálViktor Pál is working as a Deep Learning Infrastructure Architect at Continental and is currently also acting as Technical Team Lead. He has more than 14 years of IT Infrastructure experience and started working at Continental two years ago. Viktor and his team are supporting AI development by designing\, implementing and operating the environment that enables Deep Learning at Continental. He contributed to the Supercomputer project as a Solution Architect and he will talk about the challenges of AI Infrastructure as Code.\n\n\n Jochen ZellerJochen is IT Architect at www.sva.de. He has more than 20 years of IT experience\, is part of the SVA IT Architects team and technical leader of the Spectrum Scale team. His Spectrum Scale and infrastructure projects span various industries and fields\, such as HPC\, health care\, autonomous driving\, banking\, insurance\, etc. When he is not working with his customers\, he sits in his glider and flies away - at least in summer. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-deep-thought-an-ai-project-for-autonomous-driving-development/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201116T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201116T180000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201119T204741Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180701Z UID:2157-1605546000-1605549600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 010 - Data Accelerator for Analytics and AI (DAAA) DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the need of data orchestration in enterprise data pipelines. It provides details about data orchestration and how to address typical challenges that customers face when dealing with large and ever-growing amounts of data for data analytics. While the amount of data increases steadily\, AI workloads need to speed up in order to be able to deliver insights and business value in a timely manner. IBM addresses these requirements with the Data Accelerator for AI and Analytics (DAAA)\, an expertly engineered solution based on new features delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1. The session will include a demo of a complex proof-of-concept and present the key learnings and results. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nDownload slides here \nRelated material\n\nRedpaper: Data Accelerator for Analytics and AI (DAAA)\n\nUser Group Host: Bill Anderson\nSpeakers\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Simon LorenzSimon Lorenz is an IT Architect at IBM Research and Development in Frankfurt\, Germany. He joined IBM Germany in 1993 and has held various positions within IBM and IBM Research and Development. During international assignments\, he helped to improve fully automated chip factories in Asia and US. Simon joined the IBM Spectrum Scale development team in 2014 and since then worked on: Openstack Swift integration\, designing and building System Health and Proactive Services solutions. Since March 2019 he is the world wide leader of the IBM Spectrum Scale Big Data and Analytics team. His role includes designing and building solutions in the area of AI such as the Data Accelerator for AI and Analytics.\n\n\n Gero SchmidtGero Schmidt is a Software Engineer at IBM Germany Research and Development GmbH in the IBM Spectrum Scale development group.\nHe joined IBM in 2001 working at the European Storage Competence Center in Mainz\, Germany\, providing technical presales support for a broad range of IBM storage products with a primary focus on enterprise storage solutions\, system performance\, and IBM POWER systems. He participated in the product rollout of the IBM System Storage DS6000/DS8000 series\, co-authored several IBM Redbooks and has been a frequent speaker at IBM international conferences. In 2015 he joined the storage research group at the IBM Almaden Research Center in California\, USA\, where he worked on IBM Spectrum Scale\, compression of genomic data in next generation sequencing pipelines\, and the development of a cloud-native backup solution for containerized applications in Kubernetes/Red Hat OpenShift. In 2018 Gero joined the Big Data & Analytics team in the IBM Spectrum Scale development group. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-data-accelerator-for-analytics-and-ai-daaa/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201118T123000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201029T165923Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201108T185709Z UID:2106-1605697200-1605702600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SC20 Meeting (Session 2): What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1? DESCRIPTION:The Spectrum Scale user group meets annually at the SC conference. For 2020 the user group will be split into two 90 minute digital sessions. The first session will be on Monday Nov 16th\, 11 am EST.\n>> Session 1: Storage for AI << \nThis session will focus on recent enhancements in Spectrum Scale followed by an open discussion. Live Q&A will be available.\nThe session will be hosted by IBM and moderated by the user group.\n>> Please register here to join the session. << \nWhat is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1?\nSpectrum Scale is a highly scalable\, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1 including Fileset QoS\, AFM to object storage\, NFSv4.1 support\, IPv6 for Cluster Export Services (CES)\, and integration with ESS 3000 and ESS 5000. \nAsk us anything\nThe second half of this session will be used for an open discussion between the users and IBM. Senior leaders of Spectrum Scale development and program management will be available. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/sc20-meeting-session-2-what-is-new-in-spectrum-scale-5-1/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201118T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201119T212100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180640Z UID:2162-1605715200-1605718800@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 011 - What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1? DESCRIPTION:Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable\, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1 including Fileset QoS\, AFM to object storage\, NFSv4.1 support\, IPv6 for Cluster Export Services (CES)\, and integration with ESS 3000 and ESS 5000. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDownload slides here \nRelated material\n\nEpisode 10: Data Accelerator for Analytics and AI (DAAA)\nEpisode 12: Event driven data management and security using Spectrum Scale Clustered Watch Folder and File Audit Logging\nEpisode 1: What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.0.5?\n\nUser Group Host: Kristy Kallback-Rose\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBioSocial connections\n\n\n\n\n Chris MaestasChris is an Executive Architect for IBM File and Object Storage Solutions with over 25 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in various spaces. He has experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies. He has developed benchmark frameworks to test out systems for reliability and validate research performance data. He also has led global enablement sessions online and face to face where discussing how best to position mature technologies like Spectrum Scale with emerging technologies in Cloud\, Object\, Container or AI spaces.Twitter: @cdmaestas\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdmaestas\n\n\n Ismael Solis MorenoIsmael works in the Spectrum Scale development team in Guadalajara Mexico as a data scientist and performance analyst. He is responsible for evaluating Spectrum Scale's new features and releases performance. Part of his role is to analyze datasets to identify points of performance improvement providing insights to the development teams.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismaelsm\n\n\n\n\n  \n  URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-what-is-new-in-spectrum-scale-5-1/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201202T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201124T195336Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201124T195336Z UID:2192-1606906800-1606910400@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Call Home and New Features and Enhancements in Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 (NA/EU Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale Webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale product\, as well as product updates and best practices. This webinar will focus on Call Home in Spectrum Scale\, as well as new features and enhancements in Spectrum Scale 5.1.0. \n>>> Register here <<< \nAgenda\nCall Home \n\n\n\nProactive Service / Call Home Benefits​\nHealth Checker​\nCustomer Insights​\nOutlook\n\n\n\nNew Features and Enhancements in Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 \n\n\n\nPlatform Updates\nSpectrum Scale Core Improvements#\nErasure Code Edition Changes\nMAPS Updates\nProtocol Improvements\nActive File Management (AFM) URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-call-home-and-new-features-and-enhancements-in-spectrum-scale-5-1-0-na-eu-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201203T160000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20201203T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201124T200043Z LAST-MODIFIED:20201124T200043Z UID:2195-1607011200-1607014800@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Call Home and New Features and Enhancements in Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 (AP Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale Webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale product\, as well as product updates and best practices. This webinar will focus on Call Home in Spectrum Scale\, as well as new features and enhancements in Spectrum Scale 5.1.0. \n>>> Register here <<< \nAgenda\nCall Home \n\n\n\nProactive Service / Call Home Benefits​\nHealth Checker​\nCustomer Insights​\nOutlook\n\n\n\nNew Features and Enhancements in Spectrum Scale 5.1.0 \n\n\n\nPlatform Updates\nSpectrum Scale Core Improvements#\nErasure Code Edition Changes\nMAPS Updates\nProtocol Improvements\nActive File Management (AFM) URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-call-home-and-new-features-and-enhancements-in-spectrum-scale-5-1-0-ap-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201204T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201204T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201124T084956Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180620Z UID:2188-1607095800-1607097600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 012 - Lenovo: Spectrum Scale and NVMe Storage (Held in conjunction with CIUK) DESCRIPTION:In this SSUG::Digital Expert Talk\, we will cover several NVMe-related topics: The Lenovo DSS-G100 is an NVMe-rich server that can be used with Scale’s DAE\, DME\, and ECE. We will present how to use the TRIM support that has been introduced with Scale 5.0.x on its internal NVMe drives. The NetApp EF600 is an all-NVMe storage subsystem that is triggering the rebirth of the Spectrum Scale “SAN model” with NVMe-over-Fabrics. We will present its architecture\, and show how to configure and use it with Spectrum Scale. Finally\, we will discuss how the “Unified Namespace” concept of the emerging DAOS storage stack could be used for a namespace integration of this new technology with Spectrum Scale. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDownload slides here \nRelated material\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Michael HenneckeMichael Hennecke is Lenovo’s Chief Technologist for HPC Storage and Networking. He has 27 years of experience in High Performance Computing. Michael has been working with IBM Spectrum Scale since GPFS version 1.1 and is one of the “fathers” of the GPFS Storage Server (GSS)\, which Lenovo has evolved into the Distributed Storage Solution for IBM Spectrum Scale RAID (DSS-G). He holds a masters degree in physics from Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany)\, and a “Distinguished IT Specialist” certification from The Open Group.\n\n\n\n\nPlease note that this talk starts slightly earlier than other events at 15:30 GMT. It is followed by a second expert talk at 16:00 GMT. \nThe last 2020 SSUG::Digital event will take place on December 4th and is being held in conjunction with Computing Insight UK 2020. The main CIUK conference will take place on 3rd December with the user group event on 4th December. \nHeld in association with CIUK: URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-ciuk-lenovo-spectrum-scale-and-nvme-storage/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20201204T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20201204T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20201119T212303Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180549Z UID:2166-1607097600-1607103000@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 013 - Event driven data management and security using Spectrum Scale Clustered Watch Folder and File Audit Logging (Held in conjunction with CIUK) DESCRIPTION:Spectrum Scale provides various methods for automated data management: The Policy Engine enables rule-based data placement and data management. File Audit Logging  enables you to audit file accesses for compliance reasons. The Clustered Watch folder feature enables you to watch and respond to file system activity.  This session starts with a customer talk by DESY about their use of the policy engine to automate data-intensive workflows. Then IBM provides an overview of File Audit Logging and Clustered Watch along with use cases and recent architectural enhancements with examples. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDownload slides here \n  \n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Jürgen Hannappel (DESY)Jürgen Hannappel works in the scientific computing group of the DESY IT department on data management for EuXFEL and Petra III. With a background in particle physics his interests shifted towards computing over time as his place of work moved from CERN and Bonn University to DESY\n\n\n John Olson (IBM)John Olson is a senior software engineer and the Spectrum Scale Security Architect. He has been with IBM for 21 years and has been working on Spectrum Scale since 2014. Previously\, John worked on SoNAS\, virtual tape servers and tape controller RAS. John was the lead developer of file audit logging in 5.0.0 and continues to architect the new solutions.\n\n\n Jake Tick (IBM)Jake is a development manager for Spectrum Scale. In his almost 6 years at IBM\, he has been on the Spectrum Scale system test team\, FVT test team\, and has now moved into management to help lead the file audit logging and watch folder team.\n\n\n Luis Teran (IBM)Luis\, who has been with IBM for about 4 years\, is the lead developer for clustered watch folder and file audit logging. Luis started his work with system test on Spectrum Scale then shortly after moved into a development role. Luis now owns development for the file audit logging and cluster watch components.\n\n\n\n\nThe last 2020 SSUG::Digital event will take place on December 4th and is being held in conjunction with Computing Insight UK 2020. The main CIUK conference will take place on 3rd December with the user group event on 4th December. \nHeld in association with CIUK: URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-event-driven-data-management-and-security-using-spectrum-scale-clustered-watch-folder-and-file-audit-logging/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/expert-talk13-title.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210519T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20210506T213441Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180414Z UID:2230-1621440000-1621443600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 014 - What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1.1? DESCRIPTION:Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable\, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage that can be deployed in traditional bare-metal and Cloud environments. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale functionality and performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1.1 including installation toolkit enhancements based on Ansible\, improved network performance and failover using multiple TCP/IP connections\, multi-factor authentication for the management GUI as well as the latest news on Spectrum Scale BDA\, ECE and CNSA/CSI. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nDownload slides here \nRelated material\n\nEpisode 11: What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.1?\nEpisode 1: What is new in Spectrum Scale 5.0.5?\n\nUser Group Host: Simon Thompson\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBioSocial connections\n\n\n\n\n Chris MaestasChris is an Executive Architect for IBM File and Object Storage Solutions with over 20 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in various spaces. He has experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies. He has developed benchmark frameworks to test out systems for reliability and validate research performance data. He also has led global enablement sessions online and face to face where discussing how best to position mature technologies like Spectrum Scale with emerging technologies in Cloud\, Object\, Container or AI spaces.Twitter: @cdmaestas\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdmaestas\n\n\n Ismael Solis MorenoIsmael works in the Spectrum Scale development team in Guadalajara Mexico as a data scientist and performance analyst. He is responsible for evaluating Spectrum Scale new features and releases performance. Part of his role is to analyze datasets to identify points of performance improvement providing insights to the development teams.LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ismaelsm URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-what-is-new-in-spectrum-scale-5-1-1/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20210629T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20210629T173000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20210611T114520Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T180325Z UID:2253-1624982400-1624987800@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 015 - Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native Storage Access (CNSA) allows the deployment of Spectrum Scale in a Red Hat OpenShift cluster. Using a remote mount attached file system\, CNSA provides a persistent data store to be accessed by the applications via the IBM Spectrum Scale Container Storage Interface (CSI) driver using Persistent Volumes (PVs). This talk provides a field update on CNSA and a deep dive on technical aspects of this technology.\n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n  \nDownload slides here \nQ&A\nHow does the entitlement key work for partners looking to run in their labs for educational purposes?\nThe way it’s currently set up is that we require entitlement (a purchase) of Data Management Edition (DME) or Data Access Edition (DAE) in order to gain access to the container images. If you are entitled to these editions of Specturm Scale\, the container images should be accessible via the entitlement key. \nWhat is with air gap installations?\nThe switch to IBM Cloud Registry (ICR) improves air gap installations as you can replicate the container images in the same way as you do with your OCP images.for details\, please see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/scalecontainernative?topic=appendix-airgap-setup-network-restricted-red-hat-openshift-container-platform-clusters. \nIs it mandatory to have access to IBM Cloud or GitHub site? What if we have a secure site?\nThere is an air gap install available. You can mirror the registry and pull the images yourself and then serve them internally to your own OpenShift cluster. For GitHub\, you would take the command-sets\, pre-download the yamls and then use them internally. You would need these all before starting your install on an air gap setup. \nNow CNSA only supports mounting one remote filesystem. Is it foreseen to deploy NSD servers in OpenShift pods in the future? Moreover\, one worker node can host just one Core pod\, because cluster and node files are put in directories mounted from the host in order to make them persistent. If you have a bare metal cluster with\, say\, static physical machine worker nodes\, you are forced to deploy just one Core pod per node even if your physical node can provide computing resources to host multiple Core pods.\nWe’re looking at ECE and shared nothing local disks. You will first see some of this in the Spectrum Fusion product and then into our CNSA side of things. You’ll also see more filesystems available for remote mount. \nIs it foreseen to make multiple Core pods deployable on the same worker node in future releases?\nNot anytime soon. We will look into this once we managed to get rid of the kernel module and support FUSE based deployment. We are working on FUSE but have no timeline so far. \nWhat’s the support for other types of containers like? Singularity for example?\nCurrently we’re sticking with the K8s related environments but we have heard other requests for Singularity. \nFor CNSA a integration of CSI are great but importantly rolling update is a must.\nAgreed. We’re working on rolling upgrade!!! \nIf you have a fixed number of bare metal worker nodes\, and one node fails\, it would be useful to start the lost Core pod on one of the remaining worker nodes.\nWell\, we are infrastructure not an application. With current CNSA (remote mount) we are basically just an interface to the storage cluster. One per pod is fine. Down the line when we add local storage it would be nice to reschedule a failed pod to another node\, but unfortunately this does not work either cause it cannot transfer the disks. \nWhen will the Helm charts for CNAS 5.1.1.1 available.?\nMeanwhile they are available here:\nhttps://community.ibm.com/community/user/storage/blogs/gero-schmidt1/2021/07/02/helm-charts-ibm-spectrum-scale-container-native\nNote that in the future\, we’re going to combine CSI/CNSA installs in order to simplify things. At this point\, HELM will be less necessary as well. \nRelated material\n\n\nEpisode 8: Scalable multi-node training for AI workloads on NVIDIA DGX\, Red Hat OpenShift and IBM Spectrum Scale\nEpisode 6: Persistent Storage for Kubernetes and OpenShift environments\nEpisode 3: Spectrum Scale Strategy Update\n\nUser Group Host: Simon Thompson\nSpeaker\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Laura O. BravermanLaura is a Senior Software Engineer for IBM. She has over 20 years in the Enterprise Storage industry at both IBM and Oracle\, with a breadth of experience ranging from system level testing to full stack development to leading software development teams. In her current role\, she serves as Scrum Master and developer with the IBM Spectrum Scale Container Native storage access team\, bringing Spectrum Scale into Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to support containerized workloads.\n\n\n Harald SeippHarald Seipp is a Senior Technical Staff Member with IBM Systems in Germany. He is the founder and Technical Leader of the Center of Excellence for Cloud Storage as part of the IBM EMEA Storage Competence Center. He provides guidance to worldwide IBM teams across organizations\, and works with customers and IBM Business Partners across EMEA to create and implement complex storage cloud architectures. In the past 28 years with IBM and other companies he had job roles as Software Developer\, Software Development Leader\, and Lead Architect for successful software products. Harald was co-inventor of an IBM storage product and holds various patents on storage and networking technology. He is member of the IBM Academy of Technology (AoT)\, leading the AoT Storage Core team. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-spectrum-scale-container-native-storage-access-cnsa/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210714T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20210611T120512Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T120952Z UID:2258-1626260400-1626264000@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Upgrading IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) (US Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale and ESS products\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on how to  upgrade IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS). Note that our webinars are free-of-charge and held via WebEx. \nAudience: ESS users and administrators \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-upgrading-ibm-elastic-storage-system-ess-us-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210715T130000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20210715T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20210611T115503Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210611T115503Z UID:2255-1626354000-1626357600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Upgrading IBM Elastic Storage System (ESS) (AP Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale and ESS products\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on how to  upgrade IBM Elastic Storage Server (ESS). Note that our webinars are free-of-charge and held via WebEx. \nAudience: ESS users and administrators \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-upgrading-ibm-elastic-storage-system-ess-ap-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20211020T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20211008T190104Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T190104Z UID:2311-1634727600-1634731200@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (US Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale and ESS products\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).\nNote that Support webinars are free-of-charge and held via WebEx. \nAudience: Spectrum Scale users and administrators \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-information-lifecycle-management-ilm-us-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211021T130000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20211021T140000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20211008T190458Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211008T190458Z UID:2313-1634821200-1634824800@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) (AP Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale and ESS products\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on Information Lifecycle Management (ILM).\nNote that Support webinars are free-of-charge and held via WebEx. \nAudience: Spectrum Scale users and administrators \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-information-lifecycle-management-ilm-ap-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20211102T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20211102T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20211102T134638Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211102T134638Z UID:2316-1635865200-1635872400@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SC21 Users Group Meeting DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale Development and Product Management team will be attending Super Computing 2021 in person. We will be hosting our yearly gathering on Monday\, November 15\, from 3:00-5:00 PM. This global user meeting provides an opportunity for peer-to-peer learning and interaction with IBM’s technical leadership team on the latest IBM Spectrum Scale roadmaps\, latest features\, ecosystem\, and applications for AI.\nThis is a free event\, but registration in advance is required: https://www.ibm.com/events/event/pages/ibm/nz48hgmb/1581037797007001PJAd.html \nIBM Spectrum Scale User Meeting (Face to Face only)\nMonday\, November 15\, 2021\n3:00 pm – 5:00 pm CST\nT-Rex Meeting Center\n911 Washington Ave\, 5th Floor\, Morgan Stanley Room\nSt Louis\, Missouri URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/sc21-users-group-meeting/ LOCATION:T-Rex Meeting Center\, 911 Washington Ave\, St Louis\, MO\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20211210T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20211210T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20211102T135347Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T181218Z UID:2322-1639130400-1639137600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG @CIUK 2021 DESCRIPTION:SSUG will be returning to CIUK for 2021 … our agenda is still to be confirmed\, but the plan is to run 10:00 – 12:00 on Friday 10th December. \nTo attend this user group event\, you must be registered to attend CIUK\, registration is online at https://www.scd.stfc.ac.uk/Pages/CIUK2021.aspx \nAgenda:\n10:00 – Welcome\, Simon Thompson – Group Chair \n10:05 – Spectrum Scale Update\, Indulis Bernsteins \n10:30 – User Group Matters\, Simon Thompson – Group Chair \n10:40 – Research Storage at the Crick – Steve Hindmarsh\, Francis Crick Institute \n11:00 – Erasure code edition and HPE – Daniel Kidger\, HPC \n11:25 – Spectrum Discover with Spectrum Scale\, Indulis Bernsteins \n11:45 – Anything else? … otherwise … Wrap up and close\, Simon Thompson – Group Chair URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssug-ciuk-2021/ LOCATION:Manchester Central\, Windmill St\, Manchester\, M2 3GX\, United Kingdom END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220127T165329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220215T092055Z UID:2400-1642518000-1642521600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 016 - What is new with Spectrum Scale 5.1.2? DESCRIPTION:IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale functionality and performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1.2 including upcoming high performance S3 interface\, Spectrum Scale ECE enhancements\, AFM enhancements\, performance enhancements and latest updates on Spectrum Scale BDA and CNSA/CSI. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nDownload slides here \n  \nUser Group Host: Paul Tomlinson\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBioSocial connections\n\n\n\n\n Chris MaestasChris is an Executive Architect for IBM File and Object Storage Solutions with over 25 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in various spaces. He has experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies. He has developed benchmark frameworks to test out systems for reliability and validate research performance data. He also has led global enablement sessions online and face to face where discussing how best to position mature technologies like Spectrum Scale with emerging technologies in Cloud\, Object\, Container or AI spaces.Twitter: @cdmaestas\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdmaestas URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-016-what-is-new-with-spectrum-scale-5-1-2/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220110T154009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220128T175735Z UID:2339-1642518000-1642525200@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Digital User Group Jan 2022 (Day 1 - Jan 18th) DESCRIPTION:Restarting for 2022\, the SSUG::Digital talks are back with talks over two days. \nDay 1 Talk 1: What’s new in Spectrum Scale 5.1.2 \nIBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale functionality and performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This talk will discuss key enhancements delivered with Spectrum Scale 5.1.2 including upcoming high performance S3 interface\, Spectrum Scale ECE enhancements\, AFM enhancements\, performance enhancements and latest updates on Spectrum Scale BDA and CNSA/CSI. \n>> Charts and recordings << \nSee >>here<< for sessions of Day 2 – Jan 19th\, 2022. \nUser Group Host: Paul Tomlinson\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBioSocial connections\n\n\n\n\n Chris MaestasChris is an Executive Architect for IBM File and Object Storage Solutions with over 25 years of experience deploying and designing IT systems for clients in various spaces. He has experience scaling performance and availability with a variety of file systems technologies. He has developed benchmark frameworks to test out systems for reliability and validate research performance data. He also has led global enablement sessions online and face to face where discussing how best to position mature technologies like Spectrum Scale with emerging technologies in Cloud\, Object\, Container or AI spaces.Twitter: @cdmaestas\nLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cdmaestas URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/digital-user-group-jan-2022-day-1/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220118T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220128T180159Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T155318Z UID:2408-1642521600-1642525200@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 017 - Multiple Connections over TCP (MCOT) DESCRIPTION:Starting with IBM Spectrum Scale 5.1.1\, Multiple Connections Over TCP (MCOT) is enabled by default which enhances the IBM Spectrum Scale communication subsystem to establish multiple TCP connections for communication between each pair of Spectrum Scale daemons (mmfsd). Using more connections may improve performance and resiliency\, particularly for some bonded configurations which can use more than one physical interface per node with multiple TCP connections. Depending on factors like network speed and number of nodes\, the value of the new maxTcpConnsPerNodeConn parameter may need to be adjusted up or down. \nDownload slides here \n  \nRecordings will be made available soon \nUser Group Host: Paul Tomlinson\n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Jay VaddiJay Vaddi is a Storage Performance Engineer at IBM Tucson\, AZ. He has been with IBM and the performance team for over five years. His focus is primarily on performance analysis and evaluations of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System products. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-017-multiple-connections-over-tcp-mcot/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T160000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220131T173122Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220220T222042Z UID:2431-1642604400-1642608000@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 018 - NVIDIA GPU Direct Storage with IBM Spectrum Scale DESCRIPTION:With GPUDirect Storage (GDS) NVIDIA has created a data path from the storage directly into the buffer of NVIDIA GPUs. IBM Spectrum Scale is perfectly suited to take advantage of this feature from NVIDIA to further enhance storage performance. This joint session by NVIDIA and IBM development provides GDS overview\, highlights how GDS has been integrated with Spectrum Scale and how it can be used to drive higher performance. \nDownload slides here \n  \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \nUser Group Host: Kristy Kallback-Rose\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Ingo MeentsIngo Meents has been working as an architect in IBM Spectrum Scale and its predecessors’ development for more than 10 years. His current focus is on RDMA technologies like Nvidia’s GPU Direct Storage (GDS) to eliminate the IO bottleneck faced by modern AI applications. He is leading the agile team that has made GDS in Spectrum Scale generally available and is working on further enhancements.\n\n\n Kiran Kumar Modukuri Kiran Modukuri is a Principal software engineer at NVIDIA DGX Platform software team with special focus on accelerating IO pipelines for AI and Machine Learning. He is the Co-architect of NVIDIA MagnumIO GPUDirect Storage and he has technical contributions to Distributed Filesystems\, caching and replication technologies over the last 16 years. Kiran has Master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from university of Arizona. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-018-nvidia-gpu-direct-storage-with-ibm-spectrum-scale/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220110T154145Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220113T204447Z UID:2341-1642604400-1642611600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Digital User Group Jan 2022 (Day 2 - Jan 19th) DESCRIPTION:  \nRestarting for 2022\, the SSUG::Digital talks are back with talks over two days. \nDay 2 Talk 1: GPU Direct Storage with Spectrum Scale \nWith GPUDirect Storage (GDS) Nvidia has created a data path from the storage directly into the buffer of Nvidia GPUs. IBM Spectrum Scale is perfectly suited to take advantage of this feature from Nvidia to further enhance storage performance. This joint session by Nvidia and IBM development provides GDS overview\, highlights how GDS has been integrated with Spectrum Scale and how it can be used to drive higher performance. \nDay 2 Talk 2: Spectrum Scale performance improvements \nSpectrum Scale is a highly scalable\, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads.  This presentation will discuss performance related improvements in  Spectrum Scale 5.X versions focusing on enhancements made in support of AI and HPC use cases\, including improvements for IO 500 performance benchmark\, improvements to RDMA to select NUMA aware adapters and more. \nSee >>here<< for sessions of Day 1 – Jan 18th\, 2022. \nJOIN HERE\nUser Group Host: Kristy Kallback-Rose\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n Ingo MeentsIngo Meents has been working as an architect in IBM Spectrum Scale and its predecessors’ development for more than 10 years. His current focus is on RDMA technologies like Nvidia’s GPU Direct Storage (GDS) to eliminate the IO bottleneck faced by modern AI applications. He is leading the agile team that has made GDS in Spectrum Scale generally available and is working on further enhancements.\n\n\n John Lewars (IBM)John Lewars is a Senior Technical Staff Member leading performance engineering work in the IBM Spectrum Scale development team. He has been with IBM for over 20 years\, working first on several aspects of IBM's largest high performance computing systems\, and later on the IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) development team. John's work on the Spectrum Scale team includes working with large customer deployments and improving network resiliency\, along with co-leading development of the team's first public cloud and container support deliverables.\n\n\n Jay VaddiJay Vaddi is a Storage Performance Engineer at IBM Tucson\, AZ. He has been with IBM and the performance team for over five years. His focus is primarily on performance analysis and evaluations of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System products.\n\n\n Kiran Kumar Modukuri Kiran Modukuri is a Principal software engineer at NVIDIA DGX Platform software team with special focus on accelerating IO pipelines for AI and Machine Learning. He is the Co-architect of NVIDIA MagnumIO GPUDirect Storage and he has technical contributions to Distributed Filesystems\, caching and replication technologies over the last 16 years. Kiran has Master's degree in electrical and computer engineering from university of Arizona.\n\n\n Pidad D'SouzaPidad D'Souza is a System Architect specializing in performance engineering of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM POWER systems. He has been with IBM for over 17 years\, leading system performance engineering of GPU accelerated systems designed for applications in the fields of AI & HPC. He has presented extensively at several international conferences\, and delivered customer workshops and lab sessions. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/digital-user-group-jan-2022-day-2/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220119T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220131T174233Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T154656Z UID:2440-1642608000-1642611600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:SSUG::Digital: 019 – Spectrum Scale Performance Improvements DESCRIPTION:Spectrum Scale is a highly scalable\, high-performance storage solution for file and object storage. IBM continues to enhance Spectrum Scale performance\, in response to recent hardware advancements and evolving workloads. This presentation will discuss performance related improvements in  Spectrum Scale 5.X versions focusing on enhancements made in support of AI and HPC use cases\, including improvements for IO 500 performance benchmark\, improvements to RDMA to select NUMA aware adapters and more. \nDownload slides here \n  \nRecordings will be made available soon \nUser Group Host: Kristy Kallback-Rose\nSpeakers: \n\n\n\n\n Speaker NamePhotoBio\n\n\n\n\n John LewarsJohn Lewars is a Senior Technical Staff Member leading performance engineering work in the IBM Spectrum Scale development team. He has been with IBM for over 20 years\, working first on several aspects of IBM's largest high performance computing systems\, and later on the IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) development team. John's work on the Spectrum Scale team includes working with large customer deployments and improving network resiliency\, along with co-leading development of the team's first public cloud and container support deliverables.\n\n\n Jay VaddiJay Vaddi is a Storage Performance Engineer at IBM Tucson\, AZ. He has been with IBM and the performance team for over five years. His focus is primarily on performance analysis and evaluations of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM Elastic Storage System products.\n\n\n Olaf WeiserOlaf works with GPFS for over 15 years now. He started his GPFS career in one of the worlds biggest telecommunication companies as a technical administrator. Since more than 10 years\, Olaf is with IBM as storage consultant and performance specialist. Recently\, he joined IBM Research and Development and works on enhancements in Spectrum Scale to adopt client and customer's needs in the product.\n\n\n Pidad D'SouzaPidad D'Souza is a System Architect specializing in performance engineering of IBM Spectrum Scale and IBM POWER systems. He has been with IBM for over 17 years\, leading system performance engineering of GPU accelerated systems designed for applications in the fields of AI & HPC. He has presented extensively at several international conferences\, and delivered customer workshops and lab sessions. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/ssugdigital-019-spectrum-scale-performance-improvements/ LOCATION:Digital Event CATEGORIES:Expert Talks END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220331T100000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Shanghai:20220331T110000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220316T174150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T174512Z UID:2466-1648720800-1648724400@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: HDFS (AP Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale and ESS products\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on HDFS access to data in Spectrum Scale.\nNote that Support webinars are free-of-charge and held via WebEx. \nAudience: Spectrum Scale users and administrators \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-hdfs-ilm-ap-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220331T120000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220316T174416Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T174525Z UID:2468-1648724400-1648728000@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: HDFS (US Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS Support to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale and ESS products\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on HDFS access to data in Spectrum Scale.\nNote that Support webinars are free-of-charge and held via WebEx. \nAudience: Spectrum Scale users and administrators \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-hdfs-ilm-us-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220530T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220530T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220503T150229Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220511T154929Z UID:2510-1653919200-1653930000@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Meeting at ISC 2022 DESCRIPTION:IBM is organizing a Spectrum Scale User Meeting at ISC 2022. We have an exciting agenda covering user stories\, roadmap update\, the latest insights into data fabrics\, data orchestration and data management architectures\, plus access to IBM experts and your peers. We look forward to welcoming you to this event. \nDate: Mon\, 30. May 2022 – 14:00-17:00 CET Local time | Hall X Room 8 by SVA\nCongress Center Hamburg (CCH) \nAny and all people entering meeting rooms MUST be registered with an ISC 2022 exhibition pass or conference pass. Please note that registration is only available online and in advance. On-site registration is NOT possible. \nThe User Meeting is face-to-face only. There is no additional registration required in addition to the general ISC registration. \nNDA’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. \n\n\n\n\n 14:0014:10WelcomeChristina Orosco (IBM) / Matt Geiser (IBM)\n\n\n 14:1014:35What is new in Spectrum Scale and ESS?Chris Maestas (IBM)\n\n\n 14:3514:55GPUDirect Storage in Spectrum ScaleRalph Würthner (IBM)\n\n\n 14:5515:15Performance UpdateOlaf Weiser (IBM)\n\n\n 15:1515:35- Break -n/a\n\n\n 15:3515:55Not enough money for an all flash HPC storage?\nA brief cheating guide.Jochen Zeller (SVA)\n\n\n 15:5516:15Monitoring and serviceability enhancements in Spectrum ScaleMathias Dietz (IBM)\n\n\n 16:1516:35New S3 access for AI and Analytics workloadsUlf Troppens (IBM)\n\n\n 16:3516:55Data orchestration across the global data platformSimon Lorenz (IBM)\n\n\n 16:5517:00Wrap-upUlf Troppens (IBM)\n\n\n\n\nSponsors: URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-meeting-at-isc-2022/ LOCATION:Congress Center Hamburg (CCH)\, Congressplatz 1\, Hamburg\, 20355\, Germany CATEGORIES:In Person END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20220630T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20220630T170000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220310T112036Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220627T080049Z UID:2461-1656579600-1656608400@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Spectrum Scale User Group UK meeting 30th June 2022 DESCRIPTION:Join us at IBM’s new London location for our next user group meeting \nThis is the current proposed agenda for June’s meeting \n\n\n\n9:30 – 10:00\nArrivals and refreshments\n\n\n10:00 – 10:15\nIntroductions and committee updates \nPaul Tomlinson\, Group Chair & Caroline Bradley\, Group Secretary\n\n\n10:15 – 10:50\nStrategy Update (IBM)\n\n\n10:50 – 11:15\nNew S3 Access for AI and Analytics (IBM)\n\n\n11:15 – 11:35\nNVIDIA GPUDirect Storage with Spectrum Scale\n\n\n11:35 – 12:00\nWhat’s new in Spectrum Scale\n\n\n12:00 – 13:00\nBuffet Lunch outside The Cube – Including viewings of Mayflower in Immersive Room (Aspen)\, Quantum Room (Lemon)\, and AI Cars\n\n\n13:00 – 13:20\nMigration of Spectrum Scale using Atempo\n\n\n13:20 – 13:40\nSpectrum Scale HDFS Update\n\n\n13:40 – 14:00\nSpectrum Scale and Spectrum Discover for Data Management\n\n\n14:00 – 14:30\nMonitoring + Serviceability Enhancements\n\n\n14:30 – 15:00\nRefreshment Break – Viewings of Spot the Robot Dog.\n\n\n15:00 – 15:20\nSupporting Science with Spectrum Scale\n\n\n15:20 – 15:40\nSpectrum Scale on IBM Cloud\n\n\n15:40 – 16:00\nLenovo Update\n\n\n16:00 – 16:30\nPerformance Update\n\n\n16:30 – 17:00\nChallenges\, Experiences + Questions Led by Paul Tomlinson\, Group Chair\n\n\n17:00\nClose followed by Drinks and Pizza reception\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nRegistration is at https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/spectrum-scale-user-group-registration-321290978967 URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/spectrum-scale-user-group-uk-meeting-2022/ LOCATION:IBM Client Center London\, 20 York Road\, London\, SE1 7ND\, United Kingdom CATEGORIES:In Person END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220907T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220907T130000 DTSTAMP:20260406T003944 CREATED:20220825T102222Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220825T102222Z UID:2599-1662552000-1662555600@www.spectrumscaleug.org SUMMARY:Support Webinar: Cloud Object Storage (US Session) DESCRIPTION:IBM Spectrum Scale Webinars: Cloud Object Storage  \nIBM Spectrum Scale Webinars are hosted by IBM Spectrum Scale Support and Development teams to share expertise and knowledge of the Spectrum Scale product\, as well as product updates and best practices. \nThis webinar focuses on Cloud Object Storage in IBM Spectrum Scale: Introduction to AFM \n\nIntroduction to AFM to Cloud Object Storage\nAFM Cloud Object Storage basics and operation  modes\nAFM Cloud Object Storage features\nImportant AFM Cloud Object Storage commands\nAFM Cloud Object Storage debugging  workflow\nCommon AFM failures and fixes\n\nNote that the webinars are free-of-charge and held via Webex. \n>> Register here <<< \nFor any questions\, contact the host. URL:https://www.spectrumscaleug.org/event/support-webinar-cloud-object-storage-us-session/ LOCATION:Digital Event END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR