Minutes from GPFS User
Group Meeting 3 – Thursday 15th September 2011
Hosted by University of Warwick
The meeting was opened by Claire Robson (OCF) who gave an overview of the day and then reviewed the GPFS UG aims. This was followed by individuals introducing themselves to the group (name, organisation and experience of using GPFS). This demonstrated the range of experience levels within the group.
The first speaker of the day was Crispin Keable (CK), HPC Solutions Architect at IBM who presented the latest developments in GPFS 3.5 due to be released at the end of Q1 2012. Crispin’s presentation included:
• GPFS Active File Management System
• GPFS Extended Attributes
• GPFS Software RAID
• GPFS-SNC: An enterprise file system for Shared Nothing Clusters
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Agenda
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and review of group aims, OCF
11:10 Future GPFS Developments (Beyond GPFS 3.4), Crispin Keable, IBM
12:10 Discussions
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 Building storage services on GPFS at the University of Edinburgh, Orlando Richards, Edinburgh
14:00 GPFS and back up features for TSM, Ian Wilkes, Storage Consultant
14:30 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
15:20 GPFS User Group Committee Development, Led by OCF
15:50 Conclusions, OCF
16:00 Close
For additional discussion points that you would like to raise, please send questions through to Claire Robson (crobson@ocf.co.uk) in advance of the meeting.
Minutes from GPFS User Group Meeting 2 – Tuesday 5th April 2011
Hosted by University of Birmingham
Barry Evans (OCF) started off with a quick introduction welcoming everyone and outlining the agenda for the day.
Due to technical reasons, the morning agenda changed and the presentations started with a presentation on CEDAR and future projects from AWE and the experiences they have had using GPFS. A number of questions were raised by the audience about their experiences. Jim Roche suggested that the group feeds their requirements into a ‘wish list’ of items that IBM can then use as a formal mechanism to respond to. It was requested that clearance is obtained for the presentation slides and that they are made available retrospectively to group members.
Jez Tucker (Rushes) then presented on the systems used at Rushes and their experiences and challenges. Followed up with questions from the group.
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GPFS User Group Meeting: 5th April 2011
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and review of group aims
Barry Evans, OCF
11:10 GPFS Cache
Kalyan Gunda, IBM
12:10 Discussions
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 CEDAR Project and Futures
Mark Roberts and Dave Murray, AWE
14:00 GPFS at the Met Office
Robin Pallister, MET Office
14:30 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
15:20 GPFS User Group Committee Development
Led by Barry Evans, OCF
15:50 Conclusions, Barry Evans, OCF
16:00 Close
GPFS User Group Meeting: 30th November 2010
Agenda
2:00pm Welcome & Aims of the group
Barry Evans, OCF
2:15pm Group Structure/Format
& OCF Involvement
Barry Evans, OCF
2:30pm Group discussion
3:00pm Close
