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Meet the Devs #3 – Report

Last week the third ‘meet the devs’ event took place, this time in Warwick. This was my first visit to IBM Warwick and after a short walk from the train station the first thing that struck me was the size of the site. It always reminds me of the sheer size of IBM when I visit these sites I barely knew existed but are many times the size of our lab in Manchester.

Having arrived and got set up it was great to see a mixture of familiar faces and first time attendees. This makes me confident that people are finding these sessions valuable if they are attending multiple sessions, whilst also ensuring we are involving and getting input from a widening range of users.

The release of Spectrum Scale 4.1.1 was the first release that our development team in Manchester was involved with. With that work now a month behind us, this meeting was an opportunity to look forward to what is coming in 4.2 – targetted in for release in Q4 this year.

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mmperfmon query

The new Spectrum Scale has been out for a few weeks now, so I think I should introduce a new function that’s been added for the purpose of performance monitoring.
Some of you may remember the performance monitor that comes with GSS. Its now been added to Spectrum Scale, and is recording various metrics for GPFS, Object, NFS, and SMB (depending on what you have installed). It will start automatically for some metrics (there are other more complex ones that can be enabled). So here’s a few variations to introduce the new command to look at the metrics being gathered.

mmperfmon query Metric[,Metric....]  |  Key[,Key...]  | NamedQuery  [StartTime EndTime | Duration] [ options ]

or

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Meet the Devs #3

GPFS: Meet the Devs #3
The third Meet the GPFS Developers ‘coffee shop’ meet has been announced.

The day will give members the opportunity to meet the developers and get hands on beta exploration and test of unreleased GPFS functions.

Date: 29th July 2015
Time: 11am-3pm
Location: IBM, Birmingham Road, Warwick, Warwickshire,CV34 5JL

Agenda:
– Data analytic workloads – development to show and tell UK work on establishing use cases and tighter integration of Spark on top of GPFS – Show the GUI coming in 4.2 – Discuss 4.2 and beyond roadmap – How would you like IP management to work for protocol access? – Optional – Team can demo & discuss NFS/SMB/Object integration into Scale

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Please register in advance with Claire O’Toole, GPFS User Group Secretary via email GPFS UG Secretary

We hope to see you there!

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Pizza fuels hands on meet up

Earlier this week on a sunny Manchester morning I hosted our second ‘meet the devs’ GPFS user group session. In February we met in London and had a very open discussion with a short demo. This session had different attendees in a different city, with different food and a different focus.

Our focus was hands on testing of the upcoming 4.1.1 release and specifically the protocol related work done in the UK. After some minimal slideware all attendees were provided some hardware and a GPFS development engineer. This was following pizza and coffee, which meant everyone was energised and ready.

What did we all learn? You can’t plan for fire alarms and using laptops for a demo to run virtual clusters with no network can be challenging! Enough said.

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GPFS UG Agenda Available

GPFS UG 2015 Announced

We are pleased to announce the 2015 GPFS User Group Meeting agenda for Wednesday 20th May.

Agenda:

10:00 arrival for 10:30 start

  • 10:30 Introductions & Committee Updates – Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary
  • 10:35 Keynote – Doris Conti, Director, Spectrum Scale (GPFS) and HPC SW Product Development
  • 10:50 4.1.1 Roadmap / High-level futures – Scott Fadden
  • 11:40 Failure Events, Recovery & Problem determination – Scott Fadden
  • 12:00 Monitoring IBM Spectrum Scale using IBM Spectrum Control (VSC/TPC) – Christian Bolik
  • 12:30 Lunch
  • 13:00 User Experience from University of Birmingham & CLIMB – Simon Thompson
  • 13:20 User Experience from NERSC – Jason Hick
  • 13:40 AFM & Async DR Use Cases – Shankar Balasubramanian
  • 14:25 mmbackup + TSM Integration – Stefan Bender
  • 15:10 Break
  • 15:25 IBM Spectrum Scale (formerly GPFS) performance update, protocol performance and sizing – Sven Oehme
  • 16:50 Closing summary – Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary
  • 17:00 Ends

All attendees are invited to attend:
19:00 Buffet and drinks at York National Railway Museum

Venue:

Acomb Suite
York Racecourse Hospitality
York Racecourse
York
YO23 1EX
United Kingdom

All members must register in advance to attend the meeting. Please email Claire Robson, GPFS UG Secretary secretary@gpfsug.org with your name, job title, organisation, telephone number and any dietary requirements.