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Spectrum Scale User Group (Australia) Meeting – Sydney April 2017

Location: Sydney, NSW | Level 13, IBM Centre
Thursday, April 27, 2017 from 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM (AEST)

Registrations for this event will be opened when details are firmed up in January (we hope to include free tickets for a sponsored drinks or dinner for networking).
http://tinyurl.com/zm2wpk4

Please mark it in your calendar!

Many thanks to IBM and Mellanox for supporting this event in Sydney.

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

The agenda is currently being finalised, but included in the day will be technical presentations by Mellanox and we hope to potentially include a Meet the Devs event in the afternoon.

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

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SSUG at SC’16

Join the Spectrum Scale user group for a meeting at this year’s Supercomputing conference.

Date: Sunday, November 13th 2016

Location: Grand Ballroom Salon F, Salt Lake City Downtown Marriott, 75 SW Temple Street, Salt Lake City UT 84101 (Reception Following: Salon E)

Agenda:

12:30-12:40 Welcome
12:40-12:50 Overview
12:50-13:35 The latest in IBM Spectrum Scale and ESS
13:55-14:20 NASA Goddard: Big Data in HPC
14:20-14:45 Nuance: Tiering to Object Storage
14:45-15:15 – Break –
15:15-15:30 Sponsor Talk: TOPIC TBD (NetApp)
13:35-13:55 Virginia Tech ARC: SANDisk IF150 (IBM DeepFlash 150)
15:30-15:50 NASA Goddard: Monitoring with Grafana and InfluxDB
15:50-16:35 Spectrum Scale Enhancements for CORAL
16:35-17:20 News from IBM Research
17:20-17:30 Closing

[Meeting followed by cocktail reception sponsored by NetApp]

Registration Web Site:

https://www-01.ibm.com/events/wwe/grp/grp305.nsf/Agenda.xsp?openform&seminar=357M7UES&locale=en_US&S_TACT=000001CP&S_OFF_CD=10001235

IBM summary page: http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/technicalcomputing/supercomputing/index.html

Questions? Comments? Please let us know. We hope to see many of you next month.

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Meet the Devs Cloud Workshop @Birmingham, UK

Meet the Devs returned this October with a trip to University of Birmingham (OK, so I didn’t have to travel very far…).

This time, we focussed the day as a workshop on cloud and Spectrum Scale, Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research, Master Inventor, Senior Research Scientist) was in the UK speaking at another event and we were lucky enough to catch him for a meet the devs. We were also joined by John Lewars (IBM, STSM) who flew in pretty much for the day, and also MTD usuals, Ulf Troppens and Dan Kidger.

For those not familiar with Dean, he worked on pNFS, AFM and the OpenStack integration when they were all part of IBM Research. I’ve been lucky enough to know Dean for a couple of years and he was extremely helpful with getting the right contacts when I was developing CLIMB (www.climb.ac.uk) a few years back and using Spectrum Scale as an infrastructure.

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UK Meet the Devs – Cloud Workshop

Back by popular demand! We are holding a UK ‘Meet the Developers’ event to focus on Cloud topics. We are very lucky to have Dean Hildebrand, Master Inventor, Cloud Storage Software from IBM over in the UK to lead this session.

IS IT FOR ME? Slightly different to the past meet the devs format, this is a cloud workshop aimed at looking how Spectrum Scale fits in the world of cloud. Rather than being a series of presentations and discussions led by IBM, this workshop aims to look at how Spectrum Scale can be used in cloud environments. This will include using Spectrum Scale as an infrastructure tool to power private cloud deployments. We will also look at the challenges of accessing data from cloud deployments and discuss ways in which this might be accomplished.

If you are currently deploying OpenStack on Spectrum Scale, or plan to in the near future, then this workshop is for you. Also if you currently have Spectrum Scale and are wondering how you might get that data into cloud-enabled workloads or are currently doing so, then again you should attend. To ensure that the workshop is focused, numbers are limited and we will initially be limiting to 2 people per organisation/project/site.

WHAT WILL BE DISCUSSED? Our topics for the day will include on-premise (private) clouds, on-premise self-service (public) clouds, off-premise clouds (Amazon etc.) as well as covering technologies including OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes and security requirements around multi-tenancy. We probably don’t have all the answers for these, but we’d like to understand the requirements and hear people’s ideas. Please let us know what you would like to discuss when you register.

Arrival is from 10:00 with discussion kicking off from 10:30. The agenda is open discussion though we do aim to talk over a number of key topics. We hope to have the ever popular (though usually late!) pizza for lunch.

WHEN Thursday 20th October 2016 from 10:00 AM to 3:30 PM
WHERE IT Services, University of Birmingham – Elms Road Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT
REGISTER Please register for the event in advance: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/ssug-meet-the-devs-cloud-workshop-tickets-27725390389 Numbers are limited and we will initially be limiting to 2 people per organisation/project/site.

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Spectrum Scale User Group (Australia) Meeting

Venue: Pullman Hotel, Albert Park, Melbourne (in conjunction with eResearch Australia Conference)

Date: Friday 14th October 2016.

To register your place please visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/spectrumscale-user-group-australia-gpfsugaus-tickets-26814516942?ref=enivtefor001&invite=MTA1MDg1MTkvY2hyaXMuc2NobGlwYWxpdXNAaXZlYy5vcmcvMA%3D%3D&utm

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

Agenda

8:30am – 4:30pm
– Introduction by Dr Neil Stringfellow, Executive Director, Pawsey SuperComputing Centre (Perth). – Day overview, OHS matters etc

  • Speakers: IBM – SpectrumScale Roadmap