That’s a wrap!
Yes, we’ve made it to the end of another successful Spectrum Scale user group! This year has been our most highly attended group with over 110 registrations and around a 90% attendance rate. We had representation from 56 organisations and delegates from 13 countries as well as 29 speakers over 28 sessions. A big thank you goes out to all our IBM, sponsor and user speakers.
For 2018, we headed back to London and the IBM Client Centre London on the South Bank. The client centre team rightly deserve our thanks – where nothing was too much trouble for them. Finding us cables to plug our streaming kit and generally making sure the logistics of the venue were all dealt with.
Continue reading “Spectrum Scale UK April 2018 report”
Links to the live streams from the UK April 2018 meeting are here!
Spectrum Scale UK User group, 18th, 19th April 2018.
Videos are being edited into separate talks and will be posted in the YouTube Playlist.
18th April
19th April
Well that’s it for the user group in 2017! The last event of the year was held as part of Computing Insights UK (CIUK) in Manchester this week. CIUK is a much smaller event that SC or ISC, but its where the user group’s roots are. In fact, the user group on 12th December 2017, was the 7th birthday of the group which held its first meeting (of about 8 people) at MEW (the forerunner of CIUK).
Since then the group has grown, and whilst the CIUK meeting is never as large as the main events, we still had 20-30 attendees.
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GPFS User Group Meeting: 14th
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and review of group aims
Claire Robson, Group Secretary & Jez Tucker, Group Chair
11:10 GPFS 3.5 Update
Scott Fadden, IBM
11:40 Tivoli Storage Manager 6.3 Update
Ian Hancock, IBM
12:10 Discussions
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 GPFS Environments at T-Systems Solutions for Research
Andreas Landhäußer, T-Systems Solutions for Research
14:00 Software: The new hardware. Concepts and benefits of vSAN
Boaz Palgi, ScaleIO
14:30 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
15:20 GPFS User Group Committee update
Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson
15:50 Conclusions, OCF
16:00 Close
10:30 Arrivals and refreshments
11:00 Introductions and committee updates
Jez Tucker, Group Chair & Claire Robson, Group Secretary
11:05 pNFS and GPFS
Dean Hildebrand, Research Staff Member – Storage Systems
IBM Almaden Research Center
12:30 Lunch (Buffet provided)
13:30 SAN Volume Controller/V7000, Easy Tier and Real Time Compression
Barry Whyte, IBM Hursley Labs
14:30 WOS: Web Object Scalar
Vic Cornell, DDN
14:50 GPFS Metadata + SSDs
Andrew Dean, OCF
15:20 User experience of GPFS
Stefano Gorini, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre
15:50 Stupid GPFS Tricks 2012
16:00 Group discussion: Challenges, experiences and questions
Led by Jez Tucker, Group Chairperson
16:20 Close