Spectrum Scale UK April 2018 report

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.

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CIUK Event Report

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 #4 2012?

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

GPFS User Group #5 May 2012?

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