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Spectrum Scale User Group (USA) Meeting – June 10th

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Users Group Meeting at Argonne National Lab (ANL) – June 10th.

Registration is now open!

Reserve your place here (no charge): https://www.regonline.com/Spectrumscalemeeting

REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 27, 2016

Thanks to Argonne for hosting this event. Developers and Engineers from IBM will be at the meeting to cover topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged, as usual no marketing pitches!

Spectrum Scale Users Group Meeting
Friday, June 10, 2016 9:00 AM – 5:15 PM (Central Time)
Argonne National Laboratory
Northgate Road and Outer Circle
TCS Center, Bldg 240, Room 1416
Lemont, Illinois 60439
United States

AGENDA

09:00-09:30 Opening
09:30-10:00 IBM: Spectrum Scale and ESS Updates (Scott Fadden, IBM)
10:00-10:30 IBM: Deep Dive – Hadoop Integration (Piyush Chaudhary, IBM)

10:30-11:00 Break

11:00-12:00 IBM: Deep Dive – Problem Determination (Teresa Swingler/Ben Randall, IBM)
12:00-12:30 Nuance: Spectrum Scale Performance Center (Bob Oesterlin, Nuance)

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-14:00 IBM: Spectrum Protect & Spectrum Scale Integration (Ron Henkhaus, IBM)
14:00-14:30 Site Presentation TBD
14:30-15:00 Site Presentation TBD

15:00-15:30 Break

15:30-16:00 ANL: AFM as a burst buffer (Gordon McPheeters, ANL)
16:00-16:30 IBM: Deep Dive – AFM Enhancements (Scott Fadden, IBM)
16:30-17:00 ANL: GHI (GPFS HPSS Integration) (Jack O’Connell, ANL)
17:00-17:15 Closing comments and Open Forum for Questions

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Trip Report: Meet the Devs – Oxford February 24, 2016

In January I took over the advocate role for the Spectrum Scale UK user group from Ross Keeping and was asked to join the ‘Meet the Devs’ in Oxford on February 24th, 2016. ‘Meet the Devs’ is an informal meeting with about 20 customers and partners. Typically there are 3-5 topics which will be discussed. This format was new to me, so I was very interested to travel to Oxford. Rick Welp of the IBM Manchester Lab volunteered to come to Oxford to help with the transition. In addition I was accompanied by Simon Lorenz and Stefan Schmidt of the Mainz Development team.

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Meet the Devs – Oxford

On Feb 24th, the latest iteration of the Spectrum Scale – Meet the Devs took place in Oxford. We met on the Oxford University campus and as always, the meeting was well attended. I had the pleasure of meeting some new members in addition to catching up with a few familiar faces. Simon Thompson, the User Group Chair, introduced three IBMers from the Mainz Germany Lab, Ulf Troppens, Simon Lorenz and Stefan Schmidt. After the introductions by Simon and our hosts from Oxford, we started the meeting.

Ulf Troppens started the meeting off by introducing his German colleagues, and he presented a high-level overview of Spectrum Scale’s history through 4.2.

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GPFS/Spectrum Scale Upcoming US Events – Save the Dates

We’d like to announce two upcoming US GPFS/Spectrum Scale Events. One on the east coast, one in the midwest.

If you have any questions, please contact:
Kristy Kallback-Rose usa-principal@gpfsug.org or Bob Oesterlin usa-co-principal@gpfsug.org
GPFS Users Group – USA Chapter – Principal & Co-principal

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Day at the SPXXL conference in NYC – May 26th (full day event)

https://www.spxxl.org/?q=New-York-City-2016
Developers and Engineers from IBM will be at the meeting to cover topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged. More details about the agenda, hotel and other logistics will come later this month.

Tentative Agenda:

  • 10 reasons for upgrading from GPFS 3.5 to Spectrum Scale 4.2.1
  • Enhancements for CORAL from IBM
  • Panel discussion with customers, topic TBD
  • AFM and integration with Spectrum Protect
  • Best practices for GPFS or Spectrum Scale Tuning.
  • At least one site update

Location:
New York Academy of Medicine
1216 Fifth Avenue
New York, NY 10029

GPFS/Spectrum Scale Users Group Meeting at Argonne National Lab (ANL) – June 10th (full day event)

Thanks to Argonne for hosting this event. Developers and Engineers from IBM will be at the meeting to cover topics, and open dialogue between IBM and customers will be encouraged, as usual no marketing pitches!

Location: Argonne National Lab
More details and final agenda will come soon!

Tentative Agenda:

9:00a-12:30p
9-9:30a – Opening Remarks
9:30-10a Deep Dive – Update on ESS
10a-11a Deep Dive – Problem Determination (30 min/Panel 30 min?)
11-11:30 Break
11:30a-Noon – Deep Dive – Protect & Scale integration
Noon-12:30p HDFS/Hadoop

12:30 – 1:30p Lunch

1:30p-5:00p
1:30 – 2:00p IBM AFM Update
2:00-2:30p ANL: AFM as a burst buffer
2:30-3:00p ANL: GHI (GPFS HPSS Integration)
3:00-3:30p Break
3:30p – 4:00p LANL: ? or other site presontations
4:00-4:30p Nuance: GPFS Performance Sensors Deployment Experiences
4:30p -5:00p Closing comments and Open Forum for Questions

5:00 – ?
Beer hunting?

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GPFS/TSM Day during SPXXL Winter Workshop 2016

(Posted on behalf of Stefano from SPXXL):

During February we had a wonderful GPFS Day during the SPXXL Winter Meeting that took place at LRZ in “Garching bei München, Germany”.

For those who are not familiar, here are a few notes on what SPXXL is and does:

SPXXL is a user group for sites which have large installations of IBM or Lenovo equipment. The focus of the SPXXL group is on large-scale scientific/technical computing using IBM or Lenovo hardware. 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.

The SPXXL is a self-organized and self-supporting group. Members and affiliates are expected to participate actively in the SPXXL meetings and activities and to cover their own costs for participating. SPXXL meetings are open only to members and affiliates of the SPXXL. SPXXL 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. Beginning in 2015 the winter workshop was focused on Lenovo and their partners and the summer workshop will be focused on IBM and their partners.

Coming back to the GPFS Day, as usual, it was one of the most important days of the SPXXL week where we went through many interesting arguments approached mainly from a user prospective with no intent to do any kind of marketing.
As a speaker, we had 3 IBM people (1 GPFS developer, 1 TSM/HSM Developer and 1 IT Specialist), 1 Lenovo and 2 Site updates from the community.

I have been really surprised by people engagement during and after the presentations. Every speaker included has been really open and willing to get any possible challenge creating an atmosphere of a real user group meeting.

Another nice surprise has been to get direction from IBM developers on what they expect from a user when there is a problem. It has been a kind of myth buster on what a standard user does and on what should be done in order to help debugging.

This has been the kind of day we had and we hope to do this more often under the umbrella of SPXXL & GPFSUG.